Overview of projects...

International projects related to social dialogue, social partnership, social security and employment policies as a Team Leader, Component Head, Coordinating Consultant, International Consultant:

1. •Programme formulation for a TVET programme in Palestine (ETF, 2013-2014)
   

2. •Institutional building for the PES in Turkey (EU, 2011-2014)
   

3. •Responsible for all content-related employment services activities, including:
   

4. •Development of model-offices,
   

5. •Labour Market Information System: 
   

6. •Labour market analyses,
   

7. •(Web-based) Monitoring & evaluation system for Active Labour Market Measures
   

8. •Web-based job and internship matching system
   

9. •(Web-based) System for socio-economic and labour market information
   

10. •System for performance evaluation
    

11. •Active Labour Market Measures
    

12. •Capacity building of Provincial VET and Employment Boards
    

13. •Strengthening capacity of employment policy development.
    

14. •Responsibility included capacity and institutional building activities, including development and delivery of trainings, for employees and stakeholders from government and employees’ and employers’ organisations, together with awareness raising campaigns and workshops for selected employers.
    

15. •Programme formulation of a TVET programme for Gaza (SDC, 2011-2012)
    

16. •Promotion of Access to Vocational Education in Croatia (EU, 2011)
    

17. •Developing employment policy, with emphasis on youth, in Occupied Palestine Territories (GTZ, January 2010-2012)
    

18. •Capacity building in policy development for the staff of the Turkish Ministry of Labour, Social Security Institution and Public Employment Service (EU, 2011)
    

19. •Capacity building for the national and provincial management of the Turkish Public Employment Service, including social partnership (EU, June 2009-January 2010)
    

20. •Establishing social partnership in Vocational Education & Training in Albania (EU, October 2008-June 2009)
    

21. •Baseline study on Corporate Social Responsibility related to employment for persons with disabilities in Serbia (ILO, February 2009 – May 2009)
    

22. •EU programmes for Croatian business life in Croatia (ETF, October 2008 – January 2009)
    

23. •Project Identification Mission for the support of trade unions in Eritrea (EU, August 2008 – October 2008)
    

24. •National policy framework for employment of people with disabilities in Serbia (UNDP, November 2007 – October 2008)
    

25. •Developing public and private organised employment services / Introducing Career Guidance services in Syria, including involvement of social partners (EU, June 2006 – November 2007)
    

26. •Employment policy for People with Disabilities in Serbia, including social dialogue (EU, April 2006 – June 2006)
    

27. •Social Partnership in Education and Training in Uzbekistan (EU, June 2005 – February 2006)
    

28. •Human Resources Development, development of Active labour market measures in Poland (EU, September 2003 – April 2004)
    

In Netherlands and Belgium as interim manager and interim director:

1. •Various boardroom consultancy assignments related to organisational development and labour relations (Netherlands with EU travel, 1999 – present)
   

2. •Accomplished merger between market leader in home care services and organisations for elderly people (12000 staff), (November 2004 – February 2006)
   

3. •Created and managed company “Career handling”, for specialised career services, i.e. assessment, outplacement, mobility and redundancy projects (June 2003 – August 2005)
   

4. •Interim director HRM, leading a 90 staff department, for the development and implementation of the reorganisation and the redundancy measures for the Central Bureau of Statistics as a government institution becoming independent. (September 2004 – May 2005)
   

5. •Strategic orientation for a public company in employment for long term unemployed and disabled people (May 2004 – October 2004)
   

6. •Crisis management in a broadcasting company, 130 staff, bankruptcy-threat;  prepared, negotiated and implemented rescue -, reorganisation - and redundancy plan (September 2003 – May 2004)
   

7. •Managing an identification, search and selection process for management positions in a multinational company (September 2002 – July 2003)
   

8. •Interim director Finance ICT and Facilities, leading a 220 staff department, health care sector; reorganisation, outsourcing & strategic alliances (September 1999 – August 2002)
   

9. •Interim negotiator Collective bargaining agreement National Health Service, 250,000 workers. Created Employability and Labour market fund (vocational training & retraining, employability measures for 250,000 workers) in National Health Care (January 1999 – September 1999)