Development Consulting works with community members, non-governmental organisations, grass-roots organisations, government agencies, donor countries and UN agencies to increase the impact of aid programs.

Special focus is placed on the effectiveness of aid programs implemented in communities affected by conflict and violence.

Development Consulting works with commercial companies to undertake social audits of the implementation of companies’ Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies.

Our Experience

Selection of clients and agencies by whom the principal consultant was previously employed: 

• Belgian Agency for International Development and Cooperation (DGOS - ABOS)
• Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID)
• United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
• United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)
• Ministry of Internally Displaced Lebanon
• Save the Children (SCF)
• ACTIONAID United Kingdom
• BISAN Palestinian Community Development NGO
• AUSTCARE Australian Refugee NGO
• Refugees International Japan                                  

Operational and program experience in the following countries:

Burma, Cambodia, East Timor, Egypt, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Nepal, Papua New Guinea (Bougainville), Philippines, Solomon Islands, Syria, Occupied Palestinian Territories (Gaza, West Bank), Vietnam, Zambia.

Framework Agreements: 

• Selected on AusAID’s Monitoring and Evaluation Period Offer (until 2012)

Selection of Programs managed in the field:

• UNRWA - HQ Gaza - Regional Peace Implementation Program UNDP
• Reintegration and Rehabilitation of Internally Displaced Persons in Lebanon
• Austcare - Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Refugees and Internally Displaced Person in Cambodia                                
• SCF - Institutional capacity building program for Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank and Gaza                                     
• AUSTCARE - BISAN - Design of the Neighbourhood Corners Program, supporting peace-building and poverty alleviation in refugee camps and rural areas                                             
• UNHABITAT: UN Trust Fund for the reconstruction of South Lebanon's social infrastructure

Who We Are

Martine Van de Velde, a Belgian national with Australian permanent residency status, has been working as an independent planning and evaluation consultant since 2005.

Prior to working as an evaluation consultant she gained strong program management experience in the field combined with management positions at NGO and UN Headquarters level.

Martine Van de Velde holds a BA, MA and MPhil in Political Sciences and International Development Studies from universities in Belgium.

Her current PhD research focuses on the formulation of innovative evaluation strategies to assess the interrelation between conflict, violence and development.

To support her own continuous learning and sharing of knowledge she also lectures at university-level on Comparative Politics: Developing Nations; Politics of Poverty; Middle-East Politics; and the Evaluation of International Development Programs.