2011 08 CV for Dwayne Hodgson

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Dwayne Hodgson Ottawa / [email protected] / + 1 613 761 9437

Objective To enhance the effectiveness of organizations working for sustainable human development by applying my skills in learning management, design and facilitation; organizational development; and project design, monitoring and evaluation.

Skills • designing and facilitating workshops, meetings, webinars, and conferences using creative and

participatory methods. • coaching others to improve the quality of their workshops and meetings • creating visuals that facilitate learning and consensus building • coordination of virtual teams to support research, advocacy and mobilization. • design, monitoring and evaluation for community development projects and programs

Professional Experience Consultant May 2008 – Present, Ottawa Independent consulting on learning / meeting design and facilitation, and program monitoring and evaluation. Recent clients include: • Canadian Partnerships. International Development Research Centre. Designing and facilitating a

2-day learning forum on virtual learning platforms for knowledge sharing in Winnipeg in January 2012.

• Research for International Tobacco Control, International Development Research Centre: Designing and facilitating 5-day consultation with 35 international researchers on alternative livelihoods for tobacco producers.

• Ottawa Mission: Capacity building and coaching for a program monitoring and evaluation exercise.

• Canadian Programs. World Vision Canada. Research on indicators and Child Well-Being New Canadian children and youth, and on literacy, poverty and learning disabilities. Curriculum review of community-based capacity building programs.

• CODE: Reviewed 2011 CIDA proposal for international literacy promotion program. • Citizens for Public Justice: Facilitated a customized 4-day course on the Dialogue Education

approach to learning design and facilitation. • Canadian Foodgrains Bank: Wrote case studies of five international humanitarian relief projects

for annual CIDA report.


• Save the Children Canada: Research and production of three PowerPoint presentations on contextualizing RBM for community development practitioners and project participants and a survey of complementary and alternative M&E methods to RBM. Currently updating to include new CIDA RBM terminology.

• Canadian Teachers’ Federation: Capacity building and technical assistance for Results-Based Management (RBM) components for CIDA proposal for international education program.

• Centre for Intercultural Learning: Facilitated workshop on RBM for CIDA Voluntary Sector and British Columbia Council for International Cooperation.

• International Development Enterprises: Provided coaching on the design of IDE’s international iQ (Monitoring and Evaluation) Team planning meeting in Delhi, India.

• Wellspring: Learning design coaching for a new course on writing an Executive Summary to be held at the Center for Excellence in Communication.

• Parks Canada: Conducted a learning design review of new staff training materials for the Public Outreach Education program.

• The Natural Step Canada: Facilitated two workshops on adult learning design skills and conducted learning design and facilitation review of 2-Day Sustainability for Leaders Level 1 course.

• imagineaction: Facilitated a workshop with Canadian Teachers’ Federation staff to document the Theory of Change for a national student mobilization program.

Manager, Sustainability Learning Programs 2010 – 2011 The Natural Step Canada Ottawa Managed TNS Canada’s sustainability learning programs – both face-to-face training and webinars -- through learning design, promotion, and coaching TNS advisors on learning facilitation. Provided in-house training on strategic planning and program evaluation. National Coordinator 2008 – 2009 Canadian Global Campaign for Education Ottawa Coordinated a coalition of 22 organizations working to enhance Canada’s contribution to meeting UNESCO’s Education for All (EFA) goals through research, policy dialogue and public mobilization campaigns.

Mobilized 15,000 Canadian students and teachers for international campaign on EFA and literacy

Organized a conference on education rights for policy makers, academics and practitioners Redesigned CGCE website and utilized online social networking tools for outreach.


Programs Director 2002 – 2008 Global Learning Partners. Ottawa Supported a team of seven decentralized partners and a network of associates who provided train-the-trainer courses and adult learning consulting services around the world by:

Developing policies and procedures for course pricing, professional certification, marketing and intellectual copyright

Customizing an online Customer Relationship Management (Salesforce) platform to manage leads, opportunities and contracts and generate projections.

Managing client relations from inquiry to contract finalization. Creating online content, including articles, website copy and podcasts. Co-designing new Learning Evaluation by Design and SURE-Fire Meetings workshops.

Consulting projects included:

Designing and/or facilitating over 30 public and in-house Dialogue Education (train-the-trainer ) workshops for hundreds of individual participants and organizations, including: Canadian Foodgrains Bank, Christian Reformed Church World Relief Committee, International Center for Transitional Justice; The Natural Step Canada, Eli Lilly and Company, United Way / Centraide Ottawa, Volunteer Ottawa and World Vision Canada;

Creating and/or facilitating customized learning designs on community development topics for: Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR), Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC) Lutheran World Relief (Mozambique), Participatory Development Forum, Pueblito Canada, World Vision Canada;

Completing consultancies on project design, monitoring and evaluation for Canadian Lutheran World Relief the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee, Evaluation Office of UNICEF Eastern and Central Europe, and CIS office; Evaluation Office, UNICEF Headquarters, New York City; Nunavut Sivuniksavut Program; and the Nunavut Youth Abroad Program.

Designing and/or facilitating learning processes and meetings. Clients included: Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development (DFAIT), CODE Canada; CRWRC Servicelink, Relief & Disaster Response Teams; Heritage Presentations and Education. Parks Canada. Ottawa; Micah Challenge; Nunavut Youth Abroad Program (NYAP); Riverdale Community Development Corporation; and Save the Children Canada;


Program Consultant (Staff) 1998 – 2002 Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC). Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania

Tanzanian Country Program • Worked in partnership with three Tanzanian organizations to support their community

development, relief, human rights and gender justice programs; • Engaged in capacity building with our partners by designing and facilitating workshops on RBM,

environmental stewardship and human rights; • Supported partners’ strategic planning with partners and helped them develop project and

program proposals with results and indicators; • Wrote quarterly narrative reports for the country program using an online database; • Supported our partners in developing Organizational Capacity Indicators (OCI) to track their

organizational development versus their own self-determined goals; • Successfully helped partners develop proposals to external donors for partner's income

generation and relief projects; • Participated in organizational and program evaluations with partners in Tanzania and Zambia.

East & Southern Africa / Global Programs • Served as CRWRC Tanzania representative on the Capacity Building Innovation Network

(CABIN), a network of NGOs from Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda; • Worked with Evaluation Sub-Team to review the organization’s planning, monitoring and

evaluation practices around the world; • Chaired Environment Task Force to guide the development of a environmental impact

assessment toolkit; • Created and presented development education events for constituency in North America.

Project Coordinator. 1997– 1998 Caledon Institute of Social Policy. Waterloo Region / Ottawa. • Supported the Opportunities 2000 community economic development program in Waterloo

Region through research on poverty issues and evaluation planning. Co-Founder and Coordinator. 1996 – 1998 Bytowne Urban Gardens (BUGs). Ottawa. • Worked with community members to establish a community garden in downtown Ottawa via an

Asset-Based Community Development strategy. • Founding member of the Community Gardening Network of Ottawa-Carleton.


Education Masters of Arts, International Affairs (Development Studies). 1996 Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University. Ottawa • Research essay on international development NGOs’ environmental policies received Pass with

Distinction and a nomination for a Senate Medal. • Awarded Ontario Graduate Scholarship in 1993 and 1994. • Completed internships with Friends of the Earth and the Desertification Convention Office at

CIDA. Honours Bachelor of Arts and Science 1992 Arts and Science Programme, McMaster University. Hamilton • Completed Combined Honours in Political Science with focus on international relations. • Research essay examined the political platform of the African National Congress in post-

apartheid South Africa. • Extracurricular activities included serving as President and Vice-President of the WUSC Local

Committee, board member of SHAIR Development Resource Centre, member of student residence council, and singing in two bands.

Professional Development • Group Facilitation Skills. ICA Associates, Toronto. March 7-8, 2011. • Social Analysis Systems2 Introductory Workshop. SAS2 Dialogue. Ottawa. January 19-21, 2010. • TEDxOttawa, an independently organized www.ted.com event. Ottawa. December 6, 2009. • Sustainability for Leaders Level 1 Course. The Natural Step Canada. Ottawa. December 10-11,

2009. • Results-Based Management for the Intercultural and Multi-Stakeholder Context. Canadian

Partnership Branch – Voluntary Sector Projects and Education, CIDA. Toronto, Ontario. August 11-13, 2008.

• Strategic Sustainability Planning & Integrated Community Sustainability Planning Workshops. The Natural Step Canada. Ottawa. February 15, 2008.

• Human Systems Dynamics – Seeing and Influencing Systems. Human Systems Dynamics Institute and Global Learning Partners, Inc. Montpelier, Vermont. October 4-5, 2006.

• Member of the Canadian Society for Training and Development 2004-2006; • Results Based Management: Are We There Yet? Ever? Toronto, Ontario. November 16-18, 2005. • Dialogue Education Teacher Certification Course. Global Learning Partners. North Myrtle Beach,

South Carolina. June 2-4, 2003. • Advanced Learning Design. Global Learning Partners. Montpelier, Vermont. May 27-29, 2003.


• Anti-Racism Training. Broken Circles / Canadian Ecumenical Anti-Racism Network. Toronto. December 2-4, 2002.

• Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach. Global Learning Partners. Summer Peacebuilding Institute, Eastern Mennonite University. Harrisburg, Virginia. June 2001.

• Understanding and Analyzing Systemic Racism - Anti-Racism Training. CRWRC/Crossroads. Grand Rapids, Michigan. June 21-23, 2001.

• Security for Humanitarian Organizations. Canadian Red Cross / DFAIT. Montpellier, Quebec. May 22-25, 2001.

• Fundraising and Financial Management of NGOs. World Vision Tanzania and the Capacity Building Innovation Network (CABIN). Tanga, Tanzania. February 2001.

• Logical Framework Analysis and Results Based Management. World Vision Tanzania and the Capacity Building Innovation Network (CABIN). Arusha. April 1999.

• Basic and Intermediate Swahili Courses. Kiswahili na Utamaduni (KIU) Language School. Dar-es-Salaam. Tanzania. December 1998 – February 1999 and August 1999.

• WUSC Development Seminar. Botswana. Conducted research on government relocation programs for indigenous San groups. Summer 1991.

Creative Work Hodgson, Dwayne. What I’m Learning, a blog on learning design and facilitation. http://www.learningcycle.ca/ Hodgson, Dwayne. Summer 2010. Finding the Sweet Spot: Creating Learning-Centred Workshops. Voices in Dialogue, an e-Journal of Global Learning Partners. Hodgson, Dwayne. November 2009. An Objective, Reflective Perspective on The Subject of Effective Affective. Voices in Dialogue. Winter 2009. www.globalearning.com Hodgson, Dwayne. July 2008. RBM Training Modules in Results-Based Management and Communities. Produced by Save the Children Canada. Available online @ http://www.slideshare.net/learningcycle Hodgson, Dwayne. July 2008. Tools and Toolboxes for Adapting Results-Based Management at the Community Level. A review for Save the Children Canada. Hodgson, Dwayne. 2007. Blending Power Point and Dialogue Education. Voices in Dialogue. Global Learning Partners, Inc. Issue 11 / Autumn 2007. www.globalearning.com Hodgson, Dwayne. 2007. Interviewed GLP founder, Dr. Jane Vella, and produced four audio podcasts that were posted on iTunes and at www.globalearning.com/podcasts.htm , including:


• The Learning Needs and Resources Assessment (Eleanor Ray!) • Safety First! • The Seven Steps of Design • Learning Designs and Spontaneity

Hodgson, Dwayne. 2006. Power Tools: Dialogue Education and Community Development. Voices in Dialogue. . Global Learning Partners, Inc. Issue 8 / Winter 2006. www.globalearning.com Hodgson, Dwayne. 2005. Echoes of Conversations Past. Voices in Dialogue. Global Learning Partners, Inc. Issue 2 / Summer 2005. www.globalearning.com Hodgson, Dwayne. 2005. Too Much Blank for the Blank Game. Voices in Dialogue. Global Learning Partners, Inc. Issue 2 / Summer 2005. www.globalearning.com Hodgson, Dwayne. 2005. "Self-Portraits". Contribution to "Icebreakers" Column. Creative Training Techniques: A newsletter of tips, tactics and how-to's for delivering effective training. January 2005. Volume 18: Number 1. Hodgson, Dwayne. July 2003. Efficiency for What? Book Review of The Cult of Efficiency. The Catalyst. Citizens for Public Justice. Toronto. Hodgson, Dwayne. April 2003. Pasha, Pasha, Pasha….Choma! (Guest column on Dr. Jane Vella’s online journal). www.globalearning.com Hodgson, Dwayne. Editor. 2002. Creation Stewardship Toolkit. CD-ROM resource kit for CRWRC. Hodgson, Dwayne. Spring 2000. Commentary: A Swahili Lexicon. Blog entry reprinted in McMaster Times. McMaster University, Hamilton. Hodgson, Dwayne. 1998 – 2002. A Swahili Lexicon: New Words and Stories From Tanzania. A Bi-Monthly Blog posted online from Tanzania for Canadian constituency. Torjman, Sherri and Dwayne Hodgson. 1998. Poverty in Canada and in Waterloo Region. Ottawa: Caledon Institute of Social Policy. Hodgson, Dwayne. May 1998. Opportunities 2000: A Community-Based Program to Reduce Poverty. Caledon Institute of Social Policy. Hodgson, Dwayne and Fiona Mackenzie. 1997. Building on Experience: A File Review of Canadian Partnership Branch's Basic Human Needs Programming. Canadian Partnership Branch, CIDA.


Jackson, E.T., Denise Beaulieu, Marielle Gallant, and Dwayne Hodgson. June 1996. Learning for Results: Current Issues, Trends and Lessons Learned in Basic Human Needs. Performance Review Division, CIDA. Hodgson, Dwayne. 1996. Review of Rebuilding Community In America: Housing For Ecological Living, Personal Empowerment, And The New Extended Family. PRISM Magazine. March/April 1996. Hodgson, Dwayne. 1991. The Basarwa: Caught in the Middle. World University Service of Canada's (WUSC) Botswana: 1991 WUSC Seminar Report. Ottawa: WUSC. Geographic Experience

Work: Canada, Tanzania, Zambia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Malawi, Mozambique,

Austria, and the United States. Personal: South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Lithuania, Ireland, the

Netherlands, Denmark, United Kingdom; and Vancouver to San Francisco by bicycle.

Other Interests & Skills Volunteering: Board member and Chair of Program Advisory Committee for Citizens for

Public Justice. Organizing and MCing Coffee Houses for 200 guests. Music: Piano (Grade 9 Royal Conservatory), vocals (bass and lead) with folk and rock

groups; also West African hand-drumming, and acoustic guitar. Sports: Cycling, cross-country & downhill skiing, canoeing, yoga and scuba. Cooking: Thai and Indian food, home-made bread by hand, waffles for multitudes.

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