Jeroen de Zeeuw
Jeroen is a social safeguards specialist with more than 20 years of experience in stakeholder engagement in and around (renewable) energy, mining, agribusiness and large-scale infrastructure projects. He has worked for private sector companies, development finance institutions as well as civil society and community-based organizations, particularly in conflict-affected environments in Sub-Sahara Africa, Central and Southeast Asia, Central America and the Caucasus. Jeroen’s recent work experience includes land acquisition and resettlement planning for large hydropower projects in Georgia and Myanmar, social and human rights due diligence in Asia, participatory design of a complex grievance mechanism in Mozambique and social impact assessments of energy projects in Nigeria and Kenya.
Expertise: stakeholder engagement, including grievance management, public consultation and company-commmunity dialogue and negotiation forums, resettlement planning and management, livelihood restoration, social impact assessment and socio-economic baseline studies (using participatory rural appraisal methods), organisational capacity-building, and the development of community-oriented project information material.
Language skills: Dutch (native), English (fluent), French (intermediate) and Spanish (basic).
Joel Omondi Owino Winstone
Winstone has a strong background in sustainable development in infrastructure and energy projects, conducting feasibility is studies, strategic and social impact assessments as well as (community-level) facilitation for international development organizations, private sector clients such as Tullow and CEPSA, and the International Finance Corporation (IFC)/World Bank in Kenya. Omondi holds a BA in Development Economics and Mathematics from the University of Nairobi and has several diplomas on the petroleum industry.
Expertise: social and environmental impact assessment, civic education in urban and rural settings, IFC Performance Standards, natural resource management and land use planning, negotiations around local content and benefit-sharing.
Language skills: English, Kishwahili, Dholuo and (Kenyan) sign language.
Amara Ejesieme
Amara has ten years’ hands-on experience in community development, working with rural communities, oil companies and (local) government in the Niger Delta (Nigeria). Until December 2015, she worked with Pro Natura International (Nigeria) where she advised four Community Development Foundations (CDFs) and other activities supported by different oil companes (such as Shell, Chevron, Total and Frontier Oil) in the Niger Delta. Amara received an award from the Nigerian government for her contribution to community development during her National Youth Service. She holds a BSc. (honours) in industrial microbiology, a postgraduate diploma in Public Administration and is currently undertaking an MSc. in Environmental Health at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.
Expertise: Design and implementation of community development programmes, social / health impact assessments, facilitation of community-level capacity building, training, and civic education programmes.
Language skills: English and Igbo
Martin Kwori
Martin works with Timu as well as with Organizing People for Prosperity (OPP) in South Sudan. He was responsible for the capacity development of more than 20 local civil society organizations, the community development departments of oil/mining companies as well as the Ministry of Petroleum and Mining in Juba, South Sudan. Prior to that Martin worked with Concern Worldwide as well as Skills for South Sudan. Martin holds an MA in International Development Administration from Andrews University (USA) and a BA in Community Leadership and Development from Uganda Christian University.
Expertise: stakeholder engagement; lobby and advocacy strategy design; institutional capacity development of civil society and government institutions; baseline and social impact assessments, project design and management.
Language skills: English, Bari and (Juba) Arabic.
In addition, Timu works with a pool of experienced consultants in Africa, Asia and Latin America to deliver outstanding social performance impact ‘outside the fence’, i.e. in the villages and remote rural locations where projects and affected communities meet.