Workshop B outline

Consulting in developmental (foreign) aid context
(experience of development organizations’ platforms working in Visegrad countries, experience of UNDP)

Chair: Mr. Milan Nič, Pontis Foundation, Slovakia
Milan Nič was born in 1972, Bratislava, Slovakia. He studied political science and international relations at Charles University in Prague, and modern history at the Central European University in Budapest. In 1995 - 2002 he was broadcaster and foreign news editor for the Slovak Service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty headquarter in Prague. He also wrote editorials and analyses on major foreign policy issues for several Czech and Slovak journals and newspapers. In 2000 he volunteered for a humanitarian mission to Cuba to support families of the Cuban dissidents and political prisoners. Since 2002 he works at Pontis Foundation of Slovakia, where he co-founded and manages program (the Institute for Civic Diplomacy) on civic society and democracy assistance in developing countries. Target countries for 2004 are Serbia, Belarus, Cuba, and Iraq. He speaks English, Russian, and Serbo-Croatian.
Presenters:

Dan Hanšpach, UNDP

Daniel Hanspach is an Emerging Donor Policy Specialist working at RSC UNDP who became his career at the Academy of Science in the Czech Republic – research of local self-administration, giving lectures in political sociology at College of Economy in Prague. In 1998 he became a Liaison Officer in Prague - management of Czech projects. Since December 2002 he has been managing Trust Funds of CR, SR and Hungary in Bratislava and providing policy advice on various subjects to neighboring countries.

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Dušan Ondrušek, PDCS, Slovak Republic
Trainer and consultant in the area of conflict transformation, collaborative planning and organizational development. From 1991 is directing PDCS. Educated as psychologist (Comenius University, Bratislava, 1980, PhD. 1989 in social psychology, postgraduate fellowship at Institute of Policy Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore USA - civil society development, 1997). Worked as trainer/facilitator and consultant in 35 countries (mostly Central and Southern Europe, Central Asia and NIS) for diverse clients like OSCE, World bank, East-West Management Institute, World Learning, etc.
Author and co-author of four books (connected with the civil society development and civil rights education methodology) and over 30 published articles mostly on the topics: development of altruism, civil society, effectiveness of the trainings, cross-sector collaboration.

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Peter Hulényi, ODA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Slovak Republic
Peter Hulényi works as Deputy Director of International Economic Cooperation Section an Head of Developing Aid Section at Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Slovak Republic. He has been dedicated to the developing aid since 1995 when he had worked as a UNDP focal point in Bratislava and SR Representative at meetings of UNDP Executive Committee in NY. In 1998-2002 he worked as Second Secretary of Slovak Embassy in Ottawa. In 2002-2003 he was a UNDP consultant for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic focusing on structuring Slovakian ODA. ODA became a topic of both, a number of articles published in expert press and other media releases as well.

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