Training / Human Resources Development
/ Education
Ahmad Binadja
Prof.
Dr. Achmad Binadja received his PhD in Science Education from the
University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA in 1969. During his career as
professional educationalist, Dr. Binadja planned and established the
SETS Laboratory (Science, Environment, Technology and Society) at the
State University of Semarang for school-based management in a
decentralized environment. He was entrusted to manage teacher training
at the national as well as international levels, and was involved in
preparing the national work plan to implement the new competence-based
curriculum (KBK). He developed relevant teaching materials tailored to
the needs of the participants as well as guidelines for implementation
of non-formal education focusing on life skills, and monitored and
evaluated training programs.
He is able to manage multiple tasks
related to the development of educational programs, including planning,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation of on-going training programs,
as well as reporting on progress of the programs developed. Furthermore,
he has developed proposals in order to obtain funding for training and
education programs.
As a researcher and consultant, he
developed exemplary models of learning in various subjects within the
vision and mission of SETS as well as technical procedures to solve
problems of research to meet the objectives of the studies. His
consultancy services were aimed at increasing the productivity of
learning and teaching activities.
With excellent communicative and
team-building skills he possesses exceptional versatility and
adaptability to new situations, and is capable of working individually
or in a team under high pressure.
He is proficient in using computer
programs such as Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, Lotus, Microsoft Excel,
Microsoft Power Point, Statistical Programs like SPSS, and so forth. He
furthermore is experienced in evaluating computer multimedia or computer
based instruction software for specific educational subjects.
Technical Expertise
Education practices and consultation, particularly in the area of
science education
Integrated science, environment, technology, and society (including
religious issues) for practical use in education
Planning and handling basic education and curriculum implementation
Monitoring and evaluation of training programs
International level of negotiating, consulting, training and
evaluation
Dr. Teuku Mohamad Iqbalsyah holds a PhD in Biochemistry from the Faculty of Life
Sciences, University of Manchester, UK, a M.Sc. in Biotechnology from
the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Manchester
Institute Science and Technology (UMIST), UK as well as a B.Sc in
Chemistry from the Chemistry Department, Faculty of Mathematics and
Natural Sciences, Institute of Technology Sepuluh Nopember (ITS),
Surabaya, Indonesia
Dr. Iqbalsyah has extensive knowledge of
the education system in Indonesia. He has worked as a university
lecturer at Syiah Kuala University in Banda Aceh for more than ten
years, and also worked with, among others, the World Bank on its
response to the tsunami in Aceh and Nias. Dr. Iqbalsyah has been
assigned to the Directorate General of Higher Education for the Ministry
of National Education in Jakarta, and served as Leader of the
Technological and Professional Skills Development Project task force.
Technical Expertise
Lecturing
Tutoring
Management and administration of education
Quality control in the education sector
Some Highlights of
Career
Analyst for
JICA Survey of the Social and Economic Situation and Donors’
Activities in Capacity Development of Local Government in NAD
Province (2009)
Team Leader for the Center for
Aceh Development / JICA funded Capacity Building Program (Phase I)
for the Project on Self-Sustainable Community Empowerment Network
Formulation in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) Province (2007)
Analyst for the
Center for Aceh Development / JICA funded Kecamatan Characteristic
Survey in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) Province (2007)
Team member for developing and writing the
education section of Aceh Public Expenditure Review (APEA). World
Bank (2006)
Education
Specialist for the USAID funded feasibility assessment study for
establishing a new (post tsunami) Poly-Technic University In Aceh
(2006)
Dr.
David Sloper has professional capabilities in sector analysis,
policy formulation and national planning; human resource management and
organization development; planning and management in post-crisis
reconstruction particularly for education, training and provincial
development; decentralisation and governance states in transition;
institution development and executive leadership in higher education and
continuing education programs; strengthening management and service
delivery systems in education systems and institutions; planning and
systems development in flexible and distance education. He has more than
35 years of development experience, and has been assigned to a variety
of projects funded by ADB, AusAID, FAO, JBIC, UNDP, UNESCO, USAID, World
Bank, and other agencies in education, agriculture and rural
development, institutional planning and management.
Assignment competence includes: needs assessment; EOI and
tender/proposal preparation; policy development and strategic planning,
including sector analysis; project identification, design, planning,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation; governance, management and
administration at educational institution and system level; facilities
development and equipment procurement; curriculum and materials design
and development; distance education planning and management;
identification of staff development needs including assessing the needs
of female personnel; design and management of training programs
including customized workshops, short courses, internships and
professional development attachments both national and overseas; student
assessment and examination; research in education; graduate
employability and social impact assessment; and work in social sectors
in post-crisis and post-conflict reconstruction.
Assignment range includes: national sector studies; national
education plans; long term and culpable institutional responsibilities
(Assistant Secretary UPNG, Vice-President AIT, Program Director UNE);
and specific HRD packaged training programs such as development bank
training for small scale entrepreneurs, curriculum development for
distance education, upgrading of provincial teacher educators and
applied training programs for rural workers.
Project leadership experience includes: project design, inauguration
and management including technical, academic, financial and personnel
responsibilities; executive level responsibility for budget, physical
plant, and total resource management including personnel; specific
assignments including course design, costing and project management.
Professional and technical expertise includes: problem solving,
critical analysis, and generating creative solutions; developing
innovative programs and responsiveness in meeting project objectives;
contributing to projects and leading people to deliver high quality
outcomes to agreed deadlines in turbulent environments such as in
post-conflict or post-crisis settings; performance management, coaching
and mentoring with colleagues and national personnel; self management
and planning, including flexibility and innovation in times of change;
and an established record in managing key academic and administrative
systems in higher education institutions.
Reporting and writing expertise includes: writing for a specific
purpose to required format and style with direct contributions to
institutional/national plans; completed more than 90 professional
publications including books published in Japan, Singapore, Thailand and
USA; extensive experience in the systematic design and development of
training manuals and self-instructional management training and
reference materials; codification of best work practice and production
of operations manuals such Policy and Procedure Statements for
institutions and in documenting project procedures to strengthen
professional standards and capacity building.
Non-technical expertise includes:
cultural sensitivity; considerable experience in high level
consultations and national task forces involving ministers, ambassadors
and agency heads; ability to work and communicate effectively with
senior officials and people of different cultures; and a conceptual
understanding of the holistic process of development, formal and
informal.
Mr. Edward Haugh is a senior level professional with 30
years of experience in international economic development, His areas of
expertise include project appraisal, design, and implementation; aid
coordination; development of country strategies and programs focusing on
public and private sector investment; sector planning; development and
evaluation of technical assistance projects; and management of
procurement contracts and consultant recruitment. He has proven ability
to manage project teams in support of development operations. His key
sector experience includes support to education and health, social
protection, urban development, and water supply and sanitation. Mr.
Haugh has extensive experience with the design and implementation of
institutional strengthening and capacity building projects for public
sector entities. His geographical experience includes work in
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos,
Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Thailand.
Mr. Haugh currently works with the Executive Service
Corps of the Greater Triangle region in North Carolina, USA. In this
position he provides advice and guidance to North Carolina non-profit
organizations in the education and health, and youth training and
mentoring fields. Assignments focus on financial management policy
development, strategic planning and board development. Key clients
include Latino immigrant service and advocacy organizations.
Concurrently, he is enrolled in a Graduate Certificate Course at the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in leadership course for civil
society leaders focusing on leadership, financial management, resource
development and legal issues. Certificate completion will be in December
2009.
From 2004 – 2006 Mr. Haugh led the Asian Development
Bank’s (ADB’s) effort to support the reconstruction of Afghanistan. In
this position he developed ADB’s country strategy through detailed
policy discussions with senior government officials and supervised
project preparation to meet annual lending targets agreed with the
Ministry of Finance. He also led ADB’s program of support for regional
cooperation between Afghanistan and its neighbors in Central and South
Asia. Currently, he headed ADB’s Education Sector Community of Practice,
and worked on other initiatives, including ADB’s response to the 2006
South Asian earthquake and the development of new approaches to
harmonization, managing for development results and working in fragile
states.
As director of the South Asia Social Sector Division
(1996 - 2004), Mr. Haugh managed a multi-disciplinary division of
30 development professionals and support staff responsible for
appraisal, design and implementation of public and private sector
projects in the education, health, urban development, water supply and
sanitation sectors in the South Asia Region. He led an interagency team
that developed Afghanistan’s first education sector needs assessment
leading to approval of ADB’s first project in post-war Afghanistan, a
community-based education project.
Prior to joining ADB, Mr Haugh worked as a Program Officer for Catholic
Relief Services (1977-1980) – where he established a field office in
Semarang, Indonesia to supervise USAID-funded food-for-work and
mother-child health care projects throughout Central and East Java. He
managed USAID-supported nutrition projects in the Philippines in
cooperation with local non-government organizations. He was also a Peace
Corps staff member and volunteer in the Republic of Korea where he was a
university instructor, middle school teacher, night school instructor
(for disadvantaged children) and teacher trainer.
Technical Expertise:
Project appraisal,
design, and implementation
Aid coordination
Development of country
strategies and programs focusing on public and private sector
investment
Sector planning
Development and
evaluation of technical assistance projects
Management of
procurement contracts and consultant recruitment
Support to education and health, social protection, urban
development, and water supply and sanitation
Capacity building and institutional strengthening for civil society
organizations, including strategic planning, financial
management, fund raising, and board development
Dr. David
Evans is a seasoned and versatile leader with global experience
designing, implementing and managing education, training, and health
programs. Skilled in analyzing, conceptualizing and evaluating education
and health programs and managing teams to meet challenging deadlines in
complex environments. Computer savvy, self-starter, skilled manager with
excellent knowledge of USAID operational procedures. Top Secret
Clearance and unlimited medical clearance for worldwide assignments.
Technical
Experience
Education:
Experienced in the following technical areas in education: adult basic
education and literacy; alliance development; community schools and
community development; conference planning and logistics; curriculum
design and materials development; early childhood; educational
administration; education analyst; education design; education
economist; education finance; education decentralization; education
monitoring and evaluation; education planning; education policy;
education research; education sector reform; education statistics;
gender and girl’s education; education management information systems;
higher and post-secondary education; interactive radio education; math
and science education; non-formal education; organizational development;
primary education; reading and literacy education; school-based health;
school construction and renovation; secondary education; social
marketing; teacher development; teacher training; training of trainers;
youth (at-risk) education.
Health:
Experienced in the following technical areas in Health: Health
economics; health education; health evaluation; health finance; health
policy; health sector reform; school based health and nutrition.
Dr. Sydney Strong is a highly
experienced monitoring and evaluation (M&E) professional with extensive
experience in developing countries. He has more than 30 years
involvement in monitoring and evaluation, research, education and
training, teacher education and human capacity and skills development.
He has taught monitoring and evaluation and research methods at Masters’
level. Since 1987, he has worked on 15 international development
assistance projects, including monitoring and evaluation and strategic
planning work in Indonesia, China, Vietnam, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Bhutan.
His experience encompasses seven
consultancies in Indonesia, including Monitoring and Evaluation
(Capacity Building) Adviser for the Indonesia-Australia Specialised
Training Project Phase II (IASTP ll). In Vietnam he was the Adviser,
Benefit Monitoring & Evaluation,for a USD140M Vocational and
Technical Education Project.
In relation to human rights programs he
has experience as the evaluation specialist and a member of an AusAID
project identification mission in Vietnam and two planning and review
missions in China where he designed evaluation plans and project
logframes, conducted discussions with senior officials in areas of
political sensitivity, implemented evaluations, designed new programs
and activities and contributed to Aide Memoires and Reports.
Syd Strong is familiar with AusAID, ADB
and World Bank and other major major donors’ preferred methods of
project design, review, and evaluation, and he has a good understanding
of their policies and planning, operating and reporting procedures,
including policies on poverty reduction, governance, gender and
sustainability.
Technical Expertise
Monitoring and
evaluation
Human resources
development
Teacher training
Major Recent Assignments
International
Trainer and Team Leader, Courses in Program Planning Delivery in
Islamic Higher Education Institutions, Indonesia- Australia
Specialised Training Project lll, Indonesia (AusAID)
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Basri Wello is an Education Specialist with
over 20 years of experience in the education sector particularly in
pre-service and in-service teacher training in Indonesia. His various
areas of expertise include the design and establishment of baseline for
the school system in Indonesia. In addition he is also an advisor for
the planning and implementation of school development programs. He also
works with school districts to incorporate standards, formulate budgets
and develop strategies to engage and facilitate community participation
at the school level.
Technical
Expertise
Community-based school management
Competency-based curriculum development
Administration and management of education
Evaluation and assessment of education programs / projects
Some Highlights of Dr. Basri Wello’s Career
Teacher certification assessor (2008-now). Responsibilities:
assessing the teachers’ portfolio as a process of teachers
certification to be become a professional teacher
University lecturer assessor (2007-now). Responsibilities: assessing
the lecturers’ portfolio to be certified as professional faculty
Makassar Education Advisor South Sulawesi Province (2007-now).
Responsibilities: formulate budget, developing strategies, reviewing
and approving annual programs (primary to senior secondary) in
Makassar City
School accreditation team member (2006-2008). Responsibilities:
reviewing the self evaluation performed by primary schools for
their accreditation status
Chairperson of Makassar Education Council (2003-now).
Responsibilities: providing advise, support , control and mediation
for government/ Dinas Pendidikan /schools of Makassar City
School Committee Advisor for several primary and secondary schools
in Makassar: Responsibilities include provision of assistance and
advice to the school committees in establishing coordination with
the schools for various school programs and formulation of school
budgets. Also responsible for providing assistance to the school
committee in promoting community awareness on education and
enhancing community participation in school affairs
Makassar Cyber Education Center, Smart School Advisor. Provide
assistance to schools in the area of planning and implementation of
school development programs, advise schools in developing community
participation and the development of school programs
Education expert for the USAID funded Final Evaluation of the
Managing Basic Education Project (MBE), 2007 (employed by The
Mitchell Group)
Education expert for the USAID funded Mid-Term Evaluation of the Decentralized Basic Education Project (DBE), 2007-2008
(employed by The Mitchell Group)
Education expert for the USAID funded Final Evaluation of the
assessment of pre-service and in-service teacher training in
Indonesia, 2009 (employed by Johnson Basset and Smith International)
Dr.Suparman Abdullahholds a PhD in Education Management from the Institute
of Teacher Training and Education, Jakarta (1986), a M.Sc. degree in
Mathematical Statistics from the Alexandria University, Egypt (1979), and a
B.Sc. degree also in Mathematical Statistics, Baghdad University, Egypt (1975).
Technical Expertise:
Statistical
data analysis
(Educational) Management Information Systems (EMIS)
Database
management
Evaluation
methodology
Training
Dr. Suparman has over 20 years of experience in the fields
above. A few highlights in his career are listed below:
Institute of Teacher Training and Education (IKIP,
now UNJ Jakarta), lecturing in Education Management Information System (EMIS)
in Post-Graduate Programs, 1996-present
School Mapping/Basic Education Project (Ministry of
National Education / ADB), EMIS/Database Management Specialist, 2002
From 1996-2002: Various projects and studies for PT
Pusat Pengembangan Bisnis dealing with management information system and
statistical analysis during which he worked as associate consultant for EMIS,
MIS, BME, school mapping, and statistical data analysis
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