Lisette Meulman

YEP period 2021 - 2023, batch 24

Young Expert at Delphy - Uganda

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First position after YEP

Freelance consultant Social Impact Management, Indonesia

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YEP Role

In order to strengthen efficiency and cooperation within East African potato and avocado value-chains, I have a management position with a focus on stake-and shareholder management, communication, organization, and planning, with an eye for multicultural and multi-lingual projects and business management.

Skills

• Practical and theoretical understanding of Sub-Saharan African societies
• Project management and a problem-solving mentality
• Stake-and shareholder management
• An independent worker and also a team-player
• Entrepreneurial and innovative
• Assertive and not afraid of a challenge
• Multi-lingual: Dutch, English, Kiswahili, Kinyarwanda

 

Background

• Nationality: Dutch
• Education: BA African Studies with a focus on Anthropology, and International Development & Global Challenges.

 

Experience before YEP

2019 – 2021 Project Manager SDGP Increased Potato Value Chain Efficiency in the Great Lakes Region for Delphy in Rwanda

2017 – 2019 Ambassador for African Studies, Asian Studies and Latin-American Studies at Leiden University

2017 – 2018 Online content creator for African Countries at JoHo foundation