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Drs. Rob van Poelje

Drs. Rob van Poelje

Role
Cluster Leader Development Cooperation Policy Research
Telephone number
+31703487548
Email address
rob-van.poelje@minbuza.nl

As a member of the management team, Rob van Poelje shares responsibility for the strategic positioning of IOB, for improving the quality of IOB work processes, and for coordinating IOB studies and activities related to development cooperation. As cluster manager, he also supervises a third of the IOB research officers.

Based on his studies in development communication, in recent decades Rob has worked towards:

  • organising small farmers Thailand
  • combating HIV/AIDS and overpopulation in Burundi, Lesotho, Malawi, Uganda and Guinea
  • facilitating intercultural cooperation along the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal and in the Dutch province of Limburg
  • making agricultural research systems in Mali and in fragile states more client oriented
  • increasing the learning capacity of Dutch INGOs through umbrella organisation PSO
  • managing Cordaid’s emergency relief and migration strategy and setting up the Dutch Relief Alliance
  • monitoring the MFS2 funding scheme and setting up strategic partnerships
  • building an M&E&L system for Hivos

The recurring theme in all of this is the support to learning processes at the community, organisational, multi-stakeholder and policy levels by means of M&E&L.

IOB activities

  • IOB-representative and liaison with DACH (German-speaking ODA evaluation services), Nordic+, OESO/DAC/EvalNet.
  • IOB council member of the Global Evaluation Initiative and liaison with the Covid-19 Evaluation Coalition
  • MFA coordinator of the Framework Agreement Evaluations 2020
  • Member of the peer review panel of the Belgian ODA Evaluation Service (SEO)
  • IOB-liaison for MFA/DGIS, member of the steering group result-based management
  • Member 'IOB excellence manual' team

IOB publications

  • IOB (2019). Strategies for partners: balancing complementarity and autonomy. Evaluation of the functioning of strategic partnerships between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and civil society organisations.