Dear Members and Friends of Canadian Association of International Development Consultants (CAIDC),
On May 24th, CAIDC will host "So you want to be a development consultant? Calgary Edition" in Calgary, led by Guy Innes of Agriteam Consulting Inc., (www.agriteam) and moderated by CAIDC Board member Elaine Ward. The event will take place at Kilkenny's Irish Pub in The Tullamore Dew Room, #500-3630 Brentwood Rd NW Calgary AB, T2L 1K8 from 18:00 to 21:00 hours MST.
Aimed at young and established professionals looking to enter or take their next step in the industry, the program will feature a short introduction and presentation followed by a question and answer period. Attendees can look forward to an evening of solid advice and discussion in an informal, relaxed atmosphere.
Please register online: www.consultthiscalgary.eventbrite.ca
This event has limited space. Please register early!
It is absolutely critical that during tough times, a sluggish economy and changing policy and international regimes, Canadian development professionals come together regularly to discuss ways of leveraging our pool of talent and experience in less conventional ways - Corporate Social Responsibility being a good example.
For more ideas and solid consulting advice, please consider downloading "So you want to be a development consultant?" a PDF guide to development consulting written by CAIDC member and long-time consultant Larry Hendricks of Hendricks & Associates. You can download a FREE copy on CAIDC's website or here.
About the e-guide:
Being an international development consultant is an exciting career. It is also a serious business. This paper has been referred to as guidelines and a manual. The contents of the paper discuss the nature of the business, how to market yourself, some field issues and concerns about the consulting practice. People who want to be an international development consultant should consider these issues before making their decision to enter the international development business as a consultant.
CAIDC remains strongly supportive of its members and will continue to look for ways to help and promote its' members. We encourage you to use CAIDC and its network of member professionals to find answers to questions and solutions to problems. As well the website's blog section is available for you to share your experiences, and ideas. We are actively seeking suggestions for ways to improve the support we provide to our membership
Find out more at www.caidc-rccdi.ca
More about Guy:
Guy Innes is a project and program manager with 12 years of results-based international project management and leadership experience. He has specific technical knowledge and background in economic and private sector development, agriculture/rural support systems and good governance.
Much of Guy’s expertise was gained working on projects funded by bilateral and multi-lateral donors including the Canadian International Development Agency, the World Bank and the UN. He has successfully led both small and large teams of professionals, consultants and partners – tapping their respective talents, expertise and experience to achieve substantive development goals or objectives.
Guy’s geographic experience is broad and includes least-developed, developing and transition economies and fragile states. He has spent many years in the field – primarily in the Philippines but also in Ethiopia. During the periods Guy was based in Canada, he oversaw programs in Ukraine, Bulgaria and Western Europe. He has also spent time in Azerbaijan, Palestine, Kazakhstan, Lao PDR, Argentina, Indonesia and Vietnam undertaking project proposal and short term development work.
Guy holds a science degree from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and a Masters of Arts in International and Development Economics from the University of San Francisco in the US. He also holds a Management Graduate diploma from the Asia Pacific Management Cooperative Program of the McRae Institute, Capilano College in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
He is currently a senior project manager with Agriteam Canada Consulting based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Agriteam is a private consulting firm that successfully leads and manages a diverse range of development assistance initiatives throughout the world. Many these initiatives are funded by the Canadian Government through its Canadian International Development Agency.
More about Elaine:
CAIDC Board Member, Elaine Ward, has worked in international development for the past 20 years, specifically in the countries of Armenia, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Croatia, Cuba, Greenland/Denmark, Kenya, Tanzania, Venezuela. In Canada, she has also worked with First Nations communities of Siksika, Piikani, Blood, Buffalo River Dene, Stoney, and Adams River, given that many of the development challenges they face mirror indigenous peoples’ struggles worldwide.
After graduating from the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Sweden in 1993, where she completed a Masters of Public International Law degree, Elaine began her new career carrying out a research assignment for the Danish Center for Human Rights. The Greenland Home Rule Government had commissioned a study into the sealskin controversy, including the aboriginal right to harvest and market the products of a sustainable hunt. Her research was published as a handbook entitled Indigenous Peoples between Human Rights and Environmental Protection: Based on an Empirical Study of Greenland. Unfortunately, this controversy still rages on to this day.
The next six years were spent in Northern Tanzania as a CUSO Cooperant affiliated with three different civil society organizations working with pastoralists and hunter-gatherers in Maasailand, Barabaig country and Hadzabe territory. This life-altering experience was particularly formative in shaping Elaine’s desire to work with the most marginalized and vulnerable groups within society---particularly ethnic minorities and females of different age groups---youth, adult and elders.
This focus on diversity prevails in her work from 2000 to the present day. As an international development consultant, Elaine’s assignments mainly deal with human rights and the environment or natural resource management, gender equality and social equity, good governance and strategic planning, ethics and corporate social responsibility, as well as community development. Her current international consultancies are in China and Bolivia, the latter as a Gender and Development Specialist & Senior Program Advisor for the IDRC project entitled Food Security, Fisheries and Aquaculture in the Bolivian Amazon and supported by CIDA. Elaine’s tasks include providing technical advice related to mainstreaming gender and other aspects of diversity into project activities. She is affiliated here in Calgary with IRIS Environmental Systems Inc. and Harmony Walkers Inc., as well as Agriteam’s Policy Options Project as a sub-contractor.
Please register online: www.consultthiscalgary.eventbrite.ca
This event has limited space. Please register early!
Regards,
CAIDC Secretariat
www.caidc-rccdi.ca
caidcrccdi@gmail.com