CURRICULUM VITAE

Bepler, Stefan

 

 

Berufsbezeichnung

Geographer

 

 

Geburtsjahr

born in 1966

 

Current Employer, position and address:

 

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ; German Technical Cooperation), Vietnam

Consultant for  Rural Development/ Management of Natural Resources

 

6th floor, Office Building

Hanoi Towers

49 Hai Ba Trung

Hanoi, Vietnam

 

Tel. (home): +84 (0) 4 37582818

 

E-Mail: stbepler@web.de

Mobile: +84 (0)914 256272

 

 

Main fields of experience:

-      Planning, implementation and managing sustainable, community-based integrated rural development projects including:

-      management of natural resources

-      conservation and biodiversity

-      tropical and upland agriculture

-      community forestry

-      income generating activities

-      water resources development and environmental sanitation,

-      rural credit systems

-      organisational development and local institution building

-      small rural industries promotion

-      public private partnerships

-      Cooperation projects with GTZ, KfW, DED and international donor organizations

-      Impact monitoring and evaluation

-      Quality Management (QaP – Qualität als Prozess; based on EFQM)

-      Community based natural resources management

-      Conservation and biodiversity management

-      Land use planning / village development planning

-      Poverty alleviation

-      Participatory planning and appraisal methodologies in community development (RRA / PRA)

-      Budgetary control and monitoring

-      Proposal writing, fund acquisition

-      Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

 

Nationality:

German

 

 

Marital status:

Married, 2 children

 

 

Languages:

German,                       mother tongue

English,                       fluent

French                            fair

Thai                             fair

Vietnamese                    fair

 

 

Professional education:

letzten Abschluss zuerst eingeben

1989 – 1997

Germany

University of Giessen

Study of Geography and Social Sciences

Focus of studies: rural development and land use planning in the tropics

1997 Graduation: Dipl.-Geograph (Master of Science)

Subject: Impacts of changing land use patterns in Northeast Thailand

Training:

letzten Abschluss zuerst eingeben

2008

2007

2006

2004, 2005, 2006

Negotiation skills with Harvard methodology (Vietnam)

Financial Instruments for conservation (Isle of Vilm, Germany)

Impact orientation/impact monitoring (Germany)

Quality Management (QaP – Qualität als Prozess, based on EFQM)

2004

 

 

2001

1996

Vietnamese Language Course (Germany and Vietnam); Impact Monitoring & Evaluation; Advisory Services for Organisations; Participatory Methodologies; Moderation and Presentation Techniques

NGO Sustainability: The need to generate income (Thailand)

Thai Language Course (Germany)

1993, 1994, 1995, 1997

Training and Surveys with Rapid Rural and Participatory Rural Appraisal methodologies (RRA/PRA), Thailand and Germany

Professional activities:

 

letzten Einsatz zuerst eingeben

Since 2009

Donor/Company/Client:

Position:

Description:

Vietnam

GTZ

Consultant

Rural Development, Environment and Management of Natural Resources

 

Backstopping for GTZ projects in the sectors:

-       Rural development and management of natural resources

 

Assignments:

-       Study of Community Based Forest Management in Vietnam

-       Developing a Systematic Framework for Biodiversity Management in Kieng Giang Biosphere Reserve

-       Final evaluation of the Tam Dao National Park and Bufferzone Development Project

2004 - 2008

Donor/Company/Client:

Position:

Description:

Vietnam

DED

Program Coordinator

Rural Development, Environment and Management of Natural Resources

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Responsibility for 10-15 projects; supervising German development experts as well as local experts

-       management of natural resources

-       forestry and conservation

-       bufferzone development

-       management of national parks and nature reserves

-       waste and waste water management

-       poverty alleviation

-       environmental sanitation

-       income generating activities

-       public private partnerships

Responsibility for:

-       Project finding and appraisal missions

-       Impact Monitoring of the projects/program

-       Quality Management

-       Coordination and implementation of cooperation projects with GTZ, KfW, international organisations (e.g. FFI, SNV, Rainforest foundation and others)

Projects (selection):

-       Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park (Cooperation with GTZ/KfW)

-       Bach Ma National Park (Cooperation with Rainforest Foundation)

-       Tam Dao National Park (Cooperation with GTZ)

-       Hoang Lien National Park (Sapa)

-       Forest Protection Department Thanh Hoa Province (Nature Reserves Pu Luong, Pu Hu, Xuan Lien; cooperation with FFI))

-       Poverty Alleviation in Hoa Binh, Than Hoa and Dak Lak Provinces (cooperation with GTZ)

-       Poverty alleviation in Danang Province (cooperation with Malteser International)

-       Management of Natural Resources in Central Vietnam (Quang Binh Province; cooperation with GTZ)

-       Pu Huong Nature Reserve Nghe An

-       Waste and Waste Water Management in 6 provincial cities (cooperation with GTZ/KfW)

-       Supporting the Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DoNRE) in Bac Giang Province

-       Supporting the Agricultural College in Phu Tho Province

2003

Donor/Company/Client:

 

Position:

Description:

 

Indonesia/Germany

PUDSEA Network (Peri-Urban Development in South East Asia); University of Giessen

Consultant

International conference on Sustainable Development of Peri-Urban Regions in South East Asia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

-      Organisation and implementation

-      Resource person

2002

Donor/Company/Client:

Position:

Description:

Thailand/Germany

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Consultant

Documentation of PDA Financing Institutions for Land and Water Management Technologies

1997 - 2002

Donor/Company/Client:

Position:

Description:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thailand

Population & Community Development Association (PDA)

Project Coordinator (Integrated Experts Program – CIM/GTZ)

Advisor for Rural Development Programs

-      Project planning, -monitoring and -evaluation;

-      Project progress monitoring;

-      Project finding and -identification;

-      Proposal writing for GTZ, EU, ADB, Foundations (KAS...), private sector (PPP)

-      budgetary control and monitoring

-      Liaison and coordination with target groups, project staff, other GOs/NGOs and donor organisations;

-      Organisational development for self-help organisations and NGOs.

 

Main project topics: sustainable community-based integrated rural development and poverty alleviation, agriculture, small-scale irrigation and vegetable banks, water resources development and environmental sanitation, natural resources management, reforestation, income generating activities, rural credit systems, local institution building, small rural industries promotion, information technologies in rural development, public private partnerships, gender issues.

1997

Donor/Company/Client:

Position:

Description:

Thailand

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit, Eschborn (GTZ)

Consultant

Community Based Integrated Rural Development Project (CBIRD) Chakkarat/Northeast-Thailand

-      Staff training (computer programs, GIS, M&E, data collection and - analysis)

1995 -1996

Donor/Company/Client:

Position:

Description:

Thailand

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit, Eschborn (GTZ)

Consultant/Intern

Project Progress Review Mission (PFK) for the Project “Community Based Integrated Rural Development” (CBIRD) Chakkarat/Northeast Thailand

-      Project evaluation, impact monitoring, data collection and processing

-      Land use study (own research using participatory methods)

-      elaboration of the progress report elaboration of Master Thesis

-      Staff training (M&E, computer programs, rural credit systems)

1994 - 1995

Donor/Company/Client:

Position:

Description:

Thailand

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit, Eschborn (GTZ)

Intern

Community Based Integrated Rural Development Project (CBIRD) Chakkarat/Northeast-Thailand; Project implemented by GTZ

and the Population and Community Development Association (PDA)

-      Member of an international consultant-team for a land use study using participatory appraisal methods at village level

-      Staff training (RRA- and PRA methods, data collection and processing)

Memberships:

-          Research Group South East Asia, (DGfG; German Society for Geography);

-          Research Group Geography and Development Cooperation (Spokesman, (DVAG; German Association for Applied Geography);

-          PUDSEA Network (Peri-Urban Development in South East Asia)

 

 

Stefan Bepler

Hanoi, Vietnam   04.06.2009