ØYVIND JAER President Harbitzgt. 26 0259 Oslo, Norway Tel.: +47 22 44 69 84; Mobile:+ 47 48 15 55 02. E-mail: jaer@online.no

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Job Title/Profession:
Independent consultant Insight Asia. Partner Development Support and Pertinax Group

Born: 1951
Nationality: Norwegian
Civil Status: Separated, 3 children


Languages
Countries of Work Experience
Key Qualifications
Education
Academic scholarships/awards
Experience record
Selected academic publications and work


Languages:
English (excellent), German (fair), French (fair), Hindi (some), Norwegian (mother tongue, covers also Danish and Swedish)

Countries of Work Experience:
Bangladesh, Cambodia, Georgia, India, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Maldives, Moldova, Nepal, Norway, Russia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam

Key Qualifications

Rural development, Community development, Organisational development
Considerable micro level/field experience, not least from various Asian countries, but also from Russia and CIS countries, has been gained from peasant and fishermen's' communities and also from organisations and institutions in projects planning, implementation, management, reporting, evaluation. Areas of work include more theoretical village studies; organisation and institution studies, feasibility studies; reviews and evaluations. It also includes broad experience in the practical challenges of development work in areas like project management; participatory planning and development, development communication, community mobilisation, sensitisation, community organisation and institution building, human resource development, rural infrastructure, micro finance and environment.

Projects design, formulation, monitoring and evaluation
Broad experience has been gained in designing and formulating project documents and setting up monitoring and evaluation systems; primarily in rural and community development projects, but also in street children projects, immigrant projects and in working life projects. Experience has also been gained in evaluation of NGOs like World View International and other projects.

Development administration
Resident Representative for a period of five years for Norwegian NGOs and development agencies in Cambodia (Redd Barna) and in the Maldives (FORUT). Areas of work included; leadership; management; networking, representation and negotiations on most levels; administration of development agencies and development projects. The work involved comunication and interaction with community organisations; local and central authorities and instituitions; the donors and other development agencies as well as project formulation, implementation and assessment.
Experience from the Asia/Latin-America division of the Bilateral department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, in the position of Policy and Development Co-ordinator, for Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Nepal, India and Sri Lanka. In this position, also responsible for the making of country strategies for Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Considerable experience has been gained in negotiations and cross-cultural communications at the higher ministerial and diplomatic levels.

Consultancy and Advisory Services
As free lance consultant and advisor since 1996, was responsible for the execution of a number of major assignments for institutions as Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Norway, NORAD, UNDP, UNOPS, JICE and various other Norwegian Institutions and companies. Examples of assignments are: Projects design and formulation as well as planning and establishing a Monitoring and Evaluation system, both assignments from UNOPS/UNDP for a Japanese funded and managed rural development project in Cambodia , team leader for Lao PDR/UNDP/NORAD Sekong province rural community development project formulation; Project formulator and leader for training and institution building programs related to Street Children in Bishkek - Kyrgyzstan, Team leader for training workshops for Government officials from the CIS and Central and Eastern European countries in Negotiation and Communication skills; Establishing a bilateral co-operation between Norway and Singapore in the area of development assistance; Planning of large training programmes for six recipient countries in South- and Southeast-Asia; Project co-ordination of the project "Democracybuilding in Russian working life - St. Petersburg"; Feasibility studies for the provision of development assistance to minorities and indigenous peoples in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam; Evaluations of development projects; Development and evaluation assignments of projects dealing with immigrants in working life in Norway.

Research and Research administration
Dr. philos (Phd) in Social Anthropology with experience in lecturing, supervising and examination at all university levels. Specialisation: South and Southeast Asia; development anthropology and applied anthropology. Two books and several articles have been published internationally. Broad experience in rural research/studies/feasibility studies among peasants, indigenous peoples etc. Experience as researcher from Eastern Norway Research Institute working with regional and development research related to conditions mainly in Eastern Norway.
Experience has also been gained from Norwegian Research Council as leader of the Department for development and aid related research administering basic and applied research as well as research collaboration through programmes, scholarships, institutional and other kinds of support.

Education:

1985-90: Dr. Philos. - Phd - Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, 1990
1978-83: Magister Artium - Master of Arts - Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, 1983
1975-78: Cand. Mag. - Bachelor of Arts - Honours Degree, University of Oslo, 1983
1970-71: Military service
1967-70: Economic College

Academic scholarships/awards:

1989: Scholarship for the project Kumbh Mela, Prayag Raj - Allahabad 1989
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
1985-87: Research Scholarship with fieldwork in Karchana village - Uttar Pradesh.
Norwegian Research Council. Affiliated scholar at The Institute of Economic Growth,
University of Delhi.
Reciprocal scholarship scheme.
Indian Government.
1979-80: Scholarship for Indian studies: Indian Philosophy, History and Sanskrit.
Norwegian Research Council. Affiliated scholar at Banaras Hindu University - Benares.
- Reciprocal scholarship scheme.
Indian Government.

EXPERIENCE RECORD

1999 (Nov. onwards) INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT. INSIGHT ASIA.
PARTNER DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT AND THE PERTINAX GROUP

The major consultancies (more than one month) done or contracted so far:

Jan. 2004 - October 2004: NORCONSULT AS, Mindanao Basic Urban Services Sector Project. ADB financed.
3 months assignment as Community Participation/Resettlement Specialist

Sep. 2003 - March 2004. JICE (Japanese Government agency): "The History book project.
Documenting and writing the project history of the Cambodia-Japan-ASEAN Rural Development Project in Kompong Speu and Takeo provinces - Cambodia.

May 2003 - December 2003 : Cambodia-Japan-ASEAN Rural Development Project in Kompong Speu and Takeo provinces - Cambodia, funded by Japan Human Resources Development Fund - UNDP, UNOPS executed.
New contract for one more year. See below

Oct.. 2002 - March 2003 : Cambodia-Japan-ASEAN Rural Development Project in Kompong Speu and Takeo provinces - Cambodia, funded by Japan Human Resources Development Fund - UNDP, UNOPS executed.
New contract for one more year. See below.

December 2002 - June 2005. Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Norway. Mayors office of Bishkek: Project to Support Services for Children & Families in Bishkek.
Project formulator and project leader of a two years project to support services for children in difficult circumstances and their families in Bishkek. The project works with the Mayors office and the relevant units and personnel in the four raions (districts) of Bishkek in areas related to social work, child care, organisational development etc. The project is executed in cooperation with the British NGO EveryChild who has a country programme in Kyrgyzstahn.

June 2002 onwards: "Democracybuilding in Russian working life" Project co-ordination.
See below 1999. The project continues 2002-2003 with new contract and more funding form the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Norway. Key areas: Human resource development/Institution building with a team of experienced Norwegian and Russian organisational and working life psychologists and sociologists. Target group for this project: St Petersburg labour union members

Sept. 2001 - March 2002 : Cambodia-Japan-ASEAN Rural Development Project in Kompong Speu and Takeo provinces - Cambodia, funded by Japan Human Resources Development Fund - UNDP, UNOPS executed.
Planning and establishing monitoring and evaluation system, support, advise and backstopping, training and competence building of staff and other kind of support for this rural development project aiming at poverty reduction and improved living standards among the rural population. Targeting women and the poorest as well as gender issues was a key concern of this project.

May - June 2001: Cambodia-Japan-ASEAN Rural Development Project in Kompong Speu and Takeo provinces - Cambodia, funded by Japan Human Resources Development Fund - UNDP, UNOPS executed.
Project formulation for phase IV of the RDP project. See above.

March 2001 - March 2003: UNOPS - Project KYR/97/R12 Centre for Homeless Children in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstahn.
Project formulation and project leader for this project implemented with the European Childrens Trust as partners. The project started up 8.03.01.. The objectives are to strengthen the Street Children Center as an Institution within the larger Government set up in the field of children care , to develop the Centre's policy and to build up the Centre as a centre of Excellence through training programmes delivered to Centre staff and staff of supporting institutions.

October 2000, March 2001: Kulturstudier AS - Lecturing university students in India
Assigned by Kulturstudier AS for lecturing Norwegian students in social anthropology at University of Oslo during their stay in Pondy Cherry (Tamil Nad) and Varkala (Kerala) in South India

July 2000 - October 2002: Project leader for an organisation and communication development project targetting multicultural departments in five hotels in the Scandic hotel chain Norway.
The project is financed by the Norwegian association of trade and Industries and the Scandic Hotel chain company. The objective is to increase participation from immigrants in Norwegian working life, improve communication between departments in the hotels, between workers of different nationalities, between workers and leaders etc. The project is interesting in Norwegian working life with an increasing number of workers from third world and CIS countries, increasing internationalisation etc.

March - August 2000: UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS, UNOPS: Team leader for regional training workshops for government officials dealing with donors and international organisations in improving Communication and negotiation skills.
Project formulator and team leader: The workshops of 5 days each were held in Tbilisi - Georgia and Chisinau - Moldova with 20 to 30 participants in each from the CIS and Eastern-Central Eurpean Countries. Being the team leader of a group of four professionals (economist, psychologists, and anthropologist), the assignment involved on my part needs assessment missions with extensive meetings with Donors and relevant Government officials in Tbilisi and Chisinau, designing and organisation of programme, implementing programme, chairing the workshop, group and simulation work, coaching ,training and lecturing.

Nov. 1999 - October 2001: Dialogue research and evaluation of the project Immigrants in Norwegian working life. Financed by the Norwegian association of trade and Industries. Team leader.
A project based on Dialogue Research and evaluation of the development project Immigrants in working life.( See below 1998). The project involves observation and assessment of ongoing activities under the Development project. As well as interviewing and assessment of these, of immigrants in working life in various companies and Institutions in Oslo, their immediate leaders and department leaders and other relevant persons involved in the field.

Nov. 1999 - Nov. 2000: "Democracybuilding in Russian working life" Project co-ordination.
See below 1996. The project continues 2000-2001 with new funding form the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Norway. Key areas: Human resource development/Institution building with a team of experienced Norwegian and Russian organisational and working life psychologists and sociologists

See also 1996 - 1998

2001 -2003 20% PART TIME POSITION AS RESEARCHER AT ØSTLANDSFORSKNING - EASTERN NORWAY RESEARCH INSTITUTE - LILLEHAMMER

1998 - 1999 NORWEGIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL

Assistant Director - Environment and Development: In charge of the Department for development and aid related research. This is a department with ten employees and a budget of around NOK 100 million (USD 13 million). We are administering basic as well as applied development and aid related research through programmes, scholarships, institutional and other kinds of support.

1996 - 1998 INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT INSIGHT ASIA
PARTNER THE PERTINAX GROUP

The major consultancies (more than one month) during this period includes:

June - Aug. 1998: NORAD "Norway - Singapore. Third Country Training Programme (TCTP)" -Review of first training round.
Desk study reviewing the results, administrative procedures user satisfaction etc. from the first training round of this programme. The study also recommends changes in administrative procedures and suggests a training programme for the second round. See the two previous TCTP assignments below.

Feb. - Oct. 1998: Immigrants in working life: Project worker in development project funded mainly by UDI.
A development project with key operations in selected working places of four Oslo based cleaning companies where immigrants constituted the major part of the workforce. The aim of the project was to improve communicative ability and infrastructure of the working group, particularly as regards the relationship between workers and their superiors, also immigrant workers' capability in work related Norwegian, work satisfaction and participation as well as efficiency of work.

Sep. 1997 - March 1998: Lao PDR/UNDP/NORAD Sekong Province Rural Community Development Project for indigenous peoples: Team leader, project formulation mission.
With a team of five specialists, formulating the project document for a provincial development project targeting the civil administration on the provincial and district level for capacity building programs and villagers - indigenous people/ethnic minority groups - with Village Development Programs. Sectors; human resource development, local level planning, multisectorial rural community development programs.

Apr. - Aug. 1997. Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs/NORAD: Team leader evaluation of the Worldview International Foundation (WIF).
With a team of four specialists, evaluating WIF, an international NGO working in media and communications (print, newspaper, radio, TV, videoproduction etc.) for development of deprived peoples. WIF has projects/programmes in more than 26 countries. The work included evaluation of the organisation, its products and its relevance and impact.

March - April 1997. NORCONSULT CONSULTING ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS AND ECONOMISTS
Participated in project formulation team Phnom Penh Water Supply and Drainage project.

Jan. - Feb. 1997. Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Minorities and Indigenous peoples in Indochina. Desk study.
Providing an overview of indigenous peoples and minorities in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, their socio-economic situation, ongoing development programmes and the official policies towards these groups.
A substantial part of the report was recommendations for further action which were adopted by the Ministry as its foundation for starting up work in this sector.

Oct. 1996 - onwards: Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: "Democracybuilding in Russian working life" Project co-ordination.
Human resource development/Institution building with a team of experienced Norwegian and Russian organisational and working life psychologists and sociologists. The project contains components as tripartite work, institution building, leadership training, democratic dialogue etc. Venue St. Petersburg working life, companies and organisations. The project started up in 1991 and has been funded by the Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Norway, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung - Bonn, Centre for working life - Stockholm and Work research institute - Oslo.

Aug. - Oct. 1996. Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: "Norway - Singapore. Third Country Training Programme (TCTP)". Manuals for implementation.
Identification of procedures and administrative structures to run the Programme based on advice and information gathering from the MFA -Singapore, relevant ministerial authorities and institutions as well as the UNDP country offices in the 6 recipient countries (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka). The report lays the foundation for the implementation of the Programme.

April-June 1996. Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: "Norway - Singapore. Third Country training Programme (TCTP)". Feasibility study.
The work involved; an assessment of 15 Singaporean training institutions and a survey of relevant training needs in six recipient countries; an identification of the interest to use the Programme facility among the Norwegian business community targeting the six recipient countries; proposing a training Programme for the first years of implementation and providing a budgetary overview.

1994-96 ROYAL NORWEGIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, BILATERAL DEPARTMENT, ASIA/LATIN-AMERICA DIVISION, NORWAY.
Senior Executive Officer

Policy and Development Co-ordinator for Norwegian Development Co-operation with Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka. Key tasks; supporting/advising the political leadership of the Ministry in dealing with these countries in most matters; participating in missions and negotiations to round table meetings, World Bank donor meetings; submitting/making background documentation; responsible for the making of strategies for the development co-operation with Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Bangladesh; close co-operation with NORAD in monitoring and building up the development co-operation with these countries.

1992-93 REDD BARNA (NORWEGIAN SAVE THE CHILDREN FUND)
Resident Representative - Cambodia

Resident Representative of Redd Barna Cambodia, a Norwegian NGO located to Phnom Penh Cambodia with a staff of 74, and an annual budget of US$ 2.5 million. Redd Barna Cambodia was operating projects in several provinces of Cambodia, also urban projects in Phnom Penh. Redd Barna Cambodia offered practical and financial assistance in a broad range of social and economic areas with projects in sectors like participatory, multisectoral community development, school construction and education, health. Responsible for the organisation and its operations involving management and administration; organisational development, project development, monitoring and reporting; representation, negotiation etc. Exposure to local and central authorities, Multilateral and other organisations.

1989-92 FORUT, CAMPAIGN FOR SOLIDARITY, NORWAY
Resident representative - Maldives

FORUT - Maldives, a Norwegian NGO operating The Thaa Atoll Integrated Community Development Project in co-operation with the Government of Maldives, local authorities and the island communities. The target groups were 13 island communities of around 11 000 inhabitants. The Thaa Atoll Project was based on the concept of participatory community development and local level planning and resource mobilisation to bear on the needs of the receivers. The project was multi-sectoral and offered practical and financial field assistance in a broad range of social and economic areas like micro credit, education and school construction, health, education, water and sanitation, harbour development. I participated from the very beginning to the final phasing out of the Thaa project taking the lead part in all phases and key functions of the project working also with all levels of actors and authorities from the very grassroot via community organisations and local authorities to central authorities and Ministers. The Thaa project received a favourable evaluation.

1985-89 NORWEGIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES / THE NORDIC INSTITUTE FOR ASIAN STUDIES / INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH, NEW DELHI, INDIA: RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, INDIA

Fourteen months fieldwork in the village of Karchana in the Eastern Province of Uttar Pradesh in India, together with temporary spells of archival studies in London, New Delhi and Oslo, provided the main basis for my Doctoral Dissertation: Karchana: Lifeworld-Ethnography of an Indian Village, submitted and successfully defended at the University of Oslo in 1990.

1984-85 INSTITUTE AND MUSEUM OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO, OSLO
Assistant professor

Full time teaching, supervising and examination responsibilities on all university levels.
Special emphasis on applied and development anthropology and South Asian ethnography.

1984 NORWAY'S NATIONAL FILM BOARD, OSLO

Preparation of Teaching Manuals on Hinduism and Village India.

1984 NORCONSULT LTD, OSLO - CONSULTING ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS AND ECONOMISTS

Consultancy work, feasibility Study on a Programme for Rural Electrification in the Philippines.

1983-84 RESOURCES POLICY GROUP, OSLO

Fellow-worker in the research group preparing the report An Alternative Future for the Nordic countries in co-operation with one or several Third world countries.

1979-80 NORWEGIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Research associate, India

Held a resident academic fellowship with the Banares Hindi University, and travelled extensively throughout India, in preparation for my MA dissertation: Capital and Karman - Hinduism and Capitalism Compared, submitted and successfully defended at the University of Oslo in 1983.

1976-83 UNIVERSITY OF OSLO, OSLO

Regular part time teaching commitments in the social sciences.

1973-75 ERIK JAER A/S

Executive trainee with a private Import Business, Oslo.

1971-73 TRAVEL AND STUDIES

Extensive travels throughout Asia and Africa. Held studentship at the University of Nairobi in 1973.

1970-71 MILITARY SERVICE

Obligatory military service at the Army's Paratrooper school, Trandum Norway.

SELECTED ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS:
(REPORTS ETC. NOT INCLUDED)

The Yogi and the Actoman (Yogien og actomanen),
Article in Samtiden no. 5/6 1999

Capital and Karma - Hinduism and Capitalism Compared
Book: Orchid Press, Bangkok 1998.

Caste and Class in Karchana,
Article in The Eastern Anthropologist, 50:3-4. - 1997.

Karchana: Lifeworld - Ethnography of an Indian Village
Monograph: Scandinavian University Press, Oslo 1995.

"The "Metaphysical War" of the Brahmin Householder: Demonology, Animism and Social Structure"
Article in The Eastern Anthropologist, vol. 47. No. 1, 1994.

"Pilgrimage as a source of Knowledge. A case study of Kumbh Mela at Prayag Raj 1989"
Article in The Eastern Anthropologist, vol. 46. No 3, 1993.

"Kumbh Mela- Prayag Raj"
(Reiserapport: Kumbh Mela- Prayag Raj)
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, No. 2, 1989.

"The Ideological Constitution of the Individual"
Article in Contributions to Indian Sociology, 1987.

World Images: Essays on Cultural translation and comparison
(Verdensbilder: Essays i kulturoversettelse og sammenlikning)
Unpublished manuscript, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, 1987.

Hinduism
Booklet with accompanying slides: Norway's National Film Board, 1985

Towards an Alternative Future
( Å utrede en alternativ fremtid)
With Tora Houg, Jan Evert Nilsson, Toralf Eklund.
Book: Resources Policy Group, Oslo, 1984.

Studies in the Anthropology of Development and Marxism
(Studier i utviklingsantropologi og marxisme)
Unpublished manuscript, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, 1984.

"Towards a common Concept of Work in Studies of Comparative Culture"
(Et arbeidsbegrep for sammenliknende kulturforskning)
Article in Dugnad 3/4, 1984