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Experience

Experience shaped by real-world challenges.

SEBAS draws on extensive consulting experience in international development, strategic planning, facilitation, organizational strengthening, and monitoring and evaluation.

The experience described on this page comes from Maria Holmqvist's individual consulting assignments and collaborations over more than two decades. It is not a list of SEBAS AB contracts or current clients.

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Areas of experience

  • 01

    International Development Cooperation

    Assignments for development agencies, international organizations, and NGOs, including work for Sida departments and partners related to project management and development cooperation.

  • 02

    Strategic Planning and Project Design

    Facilitating participatory program and project design, including the design of UNICEF Bolivia's country program.

  • 03

    Monitoring and Evaluation

    Supporting managers and program officers in designing and using monitoring and evaluation systems, including with UN agencies in Guatemala.

  • 04

    Organizational Development

    Supporting public institutions, civil society organizations, and private sector actors in organizational planning and development.

  • 05

    Facilitation and Capacity Building

    Leading workshops, trainings, and participatory processes in LFA, RBM, and M&E for staff and partner organizations.

Selected references

Examples from professional practice

Country program design

Organization
UNICEF Bolivia
Country / region
Bolivia
Sector
Program planning

Assignment

Facilitated the design of UNICEF Bolivia's country program.

Use of monitoring and evaluation systems

Organization
UN agencies
Country / region
Guatemala
Sector
Monitoring & evaluation

Assignment

Worked with managers and program officers on the use of monitoring and evaluation systems.

Development cooperation and project management

Organization
Sida departments and partners
Sector
Development cooperation

Assignment

Carried out assignments related to project management and development cooperation.

Civil society organizations

Organization
International NGOs
Sector
Civil society

Assignment

Assignments involving Save the Children Sweden, Diakonia, Caritas, the Red Cross, Individuell Människohjälp, and WWF.

Sectors

Experience spans a broad range of thematic areas in development cooperation.

  • Human Rights
  • Civil Society
  • Democratic Development
  • Gender Equality
  • Culture
  • Rural Development
  • Private Sector Development
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Countries

Latin America & Caribbean
Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
Sub-Saharan Africa
Burkina Faso, Liberia, Tanzania
Middle East & North Africa
Egypt, Israel/Palestine, Jordan, Iraq
Europe
Sweden, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine
Asia
India, Thailand, Vietnam

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