Christine Forrester

Contact Details

Areas of Work

Email

Telephone
01544 230 050

17 Victoria Road
Kingston
Herefordshire
HR5 3BX

Accountability / Transparency
Consultancy
Course learning materials & design
Design & Administration of grant-making processes
Facilitation
Governance / Institutional Strengthening
Mentoring / Coaching
Monitoring & Evaluation
Organisational Learning & Development
Project & Programme design & development
Training
Training of Trainers

Organisations worked for

AED (Croatia)
British Council Charities Aid Foundation (UK)
Community Foundation Network (UK)
Evaluation Trust (UK)
ETP/Ekopolis (Slovakia)
HealthProm Palestine Welfare Association

Profile

Freelance organisation development and evaluation consultant since 1993, following extensive experience in senior management in the UK voluntary sector. 

My key skills are:

• Designing and delivering evaluations
• Project design and implementation
• Design of grant-making processes
• Governance and organisational development
• Training and facilitation.

Key areas of work are in civil society development, community development processes, democratisation initiatives. 

I have worked with a wide range of organisations, including the British Council; Westminster Foundation for Democracy; Welfare Association (UK and Palestine); Evaluation Trust; Traidcraft; Allavida; Community Foundaton Network (UK); ETP/Ekopolis (Slovakia);  AED (Croatia).

Current and recent international work inlcudes: Strategic consultant, Democratising Ukraine Small Projects Programme; Trainer training and strategic programme advisor,  SKIP programme for improving co-operation between NGOs and public sector, Turkey; evaluation of Standards and Codes of Ethics programme for local government, Serbia; scoping and curriculum design, civil society  component of Parliamentary strengthening programme, Ukraine; scoping missions and strategic reports on civil society and the local political, social and economic environments in Ukraine (specific report for Crimea), Georgia, Bulgaria, Turkey; history of Charity Know-How/Allavida (to be published May 2009); evaluation of grants programme , focussed on relationships between civil society and governmental institutions (Ukraine);   Community Education Development Programme review and redesign, for World Bank KDP programme, Indonesia.