YEP Programmes

The main goal of the Young Expert Programmes (YEP), consisting of YEP Water, YEP Agrofood, YEP Energy and YEP Tailor-made, is to offer young Dutch and local professionals the opportunity to take their first steps in an international environment. They are employed through Dutch organisations in a number of eligible countries. The programmes aim to rejuvenate the water, agrofood and renewable energy sectors and ensure the continued availability of expertise for these sectors.

The YEP Programmes are carried out jointly by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP), the Food & Business Knowledge Platform and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency.

NEWS

Organisations: deadline project submission

Deadline for submitting project proposals by organisations (batch 21):

10 May 2020

Preparatory training course

Training of the 20th batch starts on 15 June

Candidates: apply for YEP positions

New YEP positions will be available on 27 May

Introduction video YEP

YEP in a nutshell: the introduction video about YEP Programmes is now online.

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Every year we subsidise the placement of 72 young professionals

Check the latest results of YEP in our annual report

Our Young Experts

Bente Fonkert - YEP Agrofood at VDS A’campo in Ghana

Click here for an overview of all YEP projects at Akvo RSR

Tewelde Haftu Gebru

Where is he now? GIS expert at Awash Basin Authority, Ethiopia

History

Young Expert at Waterschap Zuiderzeeland - Ethiopia

YEP period 2014 - 2016, batch 4

YEP Role

Water administration expert, Awash Basin Authority, Ethiopia.

Click here for more information about my project.

Skills

Software skills: ARC-GIS, ERDAS Imagine, ILWIS, ENVI, R

Background

Nationality: Ethiopian
Education: MSc. in GIS and remote sensing for water resource management, BSc: in Soil and water engineering

Experience before YEP

Irrigation engineering, Ethiopia
Soil and water engineering/ conservation, Ethiopia

Contact

Alumnus

History

Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Water Use Rules and regulations
Currently, we are identifying and screening workable rules and regulations of the government to adminster the water resources of Awash Basin in Ethiopia....read more

Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Rules and regulation of Ethiopian government
Currently, we are identifying and screening workable rules and regulations of the government to adminster the water resources of Awash Basin in Ethiopia....read more