Oygen Mwalongo

Year of birth

1954

Experience

  • Teacher in a secondary school (before 2001).
  • Community development social officer for SHIPO (2001 - 2007).
  • Head of Community Development Department of SHIPO (2007 - 2009).
  • Director of SHIPO (2009 to date).
  • International consultancies (a.o. the training of Red cross officers in Ethiopia in Participatory Rural Appraisal methods).

Professional background

  • Training, supervising and coaching fieldworkers and community coaches. Subjects: community development, including facilitation of issues like community self-assessment, community development planning, training and coaching of village leaders and community committees, etc.
  • Training of trainers. Training trainers of fieldworkers and community coaches.
  • Supervision and management of projects. Focus is mainly on the social parts of projects and coordination of inputs required.
  • Supervision and management of local NGO's.