Richard Burge

Senior Consultant, Triple Line Consulting SUMMARY: Richard has over 20 years experience working in international development and politics. He has extensive experience working with civil society and government departments including grant assessment and project performance for DFID’s CSCF (with Triple Line) and Comic Relief; impact and learning adviser on DFID’s Governance & Transparency Fund (with Triple Line); programme and project management adviser at FCO; field and senior management experience at Christian Aid; monitoring & evaluation consultancy with DFID and a wide range of civil society organisations including Oxfam, CAFOD, CARE, Christian Aid, ACT-International, Vodafone Foundation; Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Defence. Through his work in Africa in particular Richard has specialist experience in peace and conflict analysis and impact assessment. MAIN PROFESSIONAL SKILLS: Programme and Project Management: Management on projects on development

policies and programmes, grant screening and assessment and strategic planning. Evaluation and Impact Assessment of donor projects and programmes: Detailed

knowledge and practical experience of monitoring and evaluation of a wide number of programmes and projects.

Peace building and conflict analysis: Conducting situation analyses in conflict and post-conflict environments, impact assessment of peace building and conflict resolution programmes and projects.

QUALIFICATIONS: BA (Geography and Politics) Queen Mary College, London University, 1989 MPhil (Latin American Studies) Cambridge University, 1991 EMPLOYMENT RECORD: 2010 to date 2008-2010 2008-2010 2007-2008 2001-2007 1999-2001 1998 1995-1998 1995 1994 1992-1994

Senior Consultant with Triple Line Consulting Freelance Consultant Programme & Project Management Adviser, FCO Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Defence Freelance Consultant Head of Team, Great Lakes Region, Christian Aid Acting Senior Field Officer, Rwanda, Christian Aid Programme Funding Officer, Christian Aid Relief Officer, Sierra Leone, Christian Aid / CCSL Relief Officer, Zaire, Lutheran World Federation (secondment) Funding Assistant, Christian Aid

CLIENTS: International Agencies:

DFID, FCO, MOD.

Private Sector:

Vodafone Foundation

Civil Society/other:

Action by Churches Together; CAFOD; CARE; Christian Aid; Comic Relief; Fauna & Flora International; International Alert; SCIAF

COUNTRY EXPERIENCE: Asia/Pacific: Afghanistan Africa: Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria,

Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa. Middle East: Iraq Europe: United Kingdom Latin America:

Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala

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RELEVANT EXPERIENCE BY SERVICE AREA: Grant Programme Management 2010 Adviser and Quality Assurance on DFID’s Additional Support to Civil

Society (re-named Global Poverty Action Fund). Responsible for screening proposals for funding and quality assurance of assessors’ work.

2006-2010 Adviser and Core Team Evaluator (DFID’s Civil Society Challenge Fund).

Responsible for grant screening and appraisal of concept notes and applications, performance assessment of reports and evaluations. Quality assurance and training of assessors; training of civil society organisations.

2001-2007 Africa Grants Assessor (Comic Relief). Grant assessment for civil society

applications in People affected by Conflict and Innovations grant programmes.

Monitoring and Evaluation 2009 Global (Responding to Conflict & Skillshare International). Evaluation of

DFID-funded peace building programme across Africa, Asia and Latin America.

2005-2007 Global (Action by Churches Together). Team leader to review and assess humanitarian relief networks in Burundi, Mozambique, Malawi, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Co-wrote synthesis report.

2005 Rwanda/Congo (SCIAF). Review and verification of self-evaluations for three Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund projects in Rwanda and DRCongo on issues of HIV/AIDS and peace building.

2004 Burundi (DFID). Evaluation of ActionAid’s integrated rights based approach to conflict prevention and response in Burundi.

Aid Effectiveness 2010 Global (Christian Aid). Synthesis of Christian Aid’s strategic information

covering areas of livelihoods and climate change, economic justice, accountable governance, HIV, social movements and organisational development.

2008-2010 Programme & Project Management Adviser at FCO (part-time consultant). Providing advice and support to programme funding teams to ensure that programme spend is aligned with strategic priorities and delivers value for money; and helping to build capacity and understanding of programme and project management skills within the FCO.

Social Development 2004-2005 Global (Fauna & Flora International / Vodafone Foundation). Co-manager

for a Vodafone-funded project looking into the application of mobile phones and other information technologies in sustainable development and conservation especially in southern Africa for Fauna & Flora International. Co-wrote two published reports on the application of mobile phone technology in development and conservation, and the coltan industry in DRCongo.

1992-1999 Global (Christian Aid). Programme funding manager and support officer for development projects in a range of development areas including informal education, HIV/AIDS, peace building and conflict resolution, micro-finance, capacity building and food security.

Governance and Fragile States 2010 Africa (DFID, FCO, MOD). Team leader for review of cross-government Africa

Conflict Prevention Programme. Consultancy involved managing a team of three other experts in Africa peace and conflict issues and value for money, conducting document review and interviews of government officials, presentation and report writing.

2009-2010 Global (DFID: £130 million Governance and Transparency Fund). Impact and learning adviser including writing learning paper on tools, methods and approaches. Performance assessment and learning across a portfolio of 38 projects around the world in all aspects of governance (anti-corruption, decentralisation, access to services, justice and human rights, gender and participation in government decision making). Co-facilitated global workshop on lesson learning.

2009 Africa (Comic Relief). Conducted impact study on conflict for Comic Relief, looking at the areas of education, rights and livelihoods, and in particular youth empowerment in post-conflict environments.

2007-2008 Global (Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Defence). Providing advice to the Secretary of State, other Defence ministers and MPs on operational issues (esp. Iraq and Afghanistan), policy and strategy (esp. Defence budget, equipment programmes, naval bases, trade unions, Multilateral Nuclear

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Disarmament, cluster munitions, personnel welfare), defence debates and speeches (in parliament and at party conference) and progressive foreign policy.

2006 Burundi (DFID). Review of DFID-funded peace building project on leadership training of political leaders and political parties, security sector apparatus and civil society.

2005 Burundi (DFID). Evaluation of a portfolio of peace building and conflict resolution projects in Burundi, provided a conflict analysis and helped to develop DFID’s peace building strategy for the country.

2004 Central Africa (CARE). Facilitator and expert to plan CARE International’s programme for good environmental governance and peace building in the Great Lakes Region of Africa. Provided conflict situation analysis.

2004 Central Africa (CAFOD). Assessment of peace building and conflict resolution work for CAFOD in Burundi, DRCongo and Rwanda. Included a situation analysis.

2002 Democratic Republic of Congo (All Party Parliamentary Group). Research and report on the humanitarian and environmental impact of illegal and illicit resource exploitation in the DRCongo for the All Party Parliamentary Group on the Great Lakes and Prevention of Genocide.

2001-02 Global (International Alert). Programme funding officer and adviser on a wide range of conflict-related applications including peace building in Central Africa, women and peace building, and conflict prevention in Eurasia.

1999-01 Central Africa (Christian Aid). Managed a £5m annual programme and a team of up to 30 staff in Burundi, DRCongo and Rwanda. Lead role in advocacy for peace and conflict resolution on the region in UK and European networks.

LANGUAGES & CONTACT DETAILS English French Spanish

Mother tongue Fluent Basic

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