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Nidhi Tandon
Principal consultant and trainer
Email: Nidhi at networkedintelligence.com
461 Roncesvalles Avenue, Suite D,  Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6R 2N4
+1 416 538 7398

Nidhi Tandon is originally from East Africa, and is Founder and Director of Networked Intelligence for Development. Nidhi works on local grassroots issues, in the context of globalization and increasing disparities between peoples and nations. Recently she has been specialising in digital media, information and communication technologies and applications that enhance women’s livelihoods in developing countries. She designs and runs grassroots training workshops for women’s organizations, small business and farmer communities in East and West Africa and in the Caribbean, enabling women to organize and articulate their priorities around sustainable development. Much of her work revolves around the relationships between women and water, energy, natural resources and policy decisions. She has recently published critical articles on climate change and its impact on water, and on the negative implications of biofuel monoculture on women's land use options.

Prior to NID, Nidhi worked at the Overseas Development Institute, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the British Broadcasting Corporation in London, UK. Nidhi sits on the Boards of Ontario Nature, the West End Food Cooperative, and Greenest City in Toronto, Canada. She has a B.A. in Economics and an M.A. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Sussex.

Indira Bondy
Consultant
Email: indbondy @ sympatico.ca

Indira Bondy, originally from Guyana, has over 14 years experience as a gender and community development specialist in the Caribbean. She has secured funding from government sources and agencies, private foundations and groups for several women’s projects in the Caribbean. Ms. Bondy has guided the development and strengthened the capacity of many groups from from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Barbados, and St. Kitts and Nevis.

Ms. Bondy’s areas of expertise include projects that empower women in the areas of violence against women, sustainable farming, community health and development, leadership and skills training for young women and men, and enabling strategic social change. She has also written successful project proposals related to women’s issues in other parts of the world including Nepal, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Mali, Senegal, Kenya and Peru. Ms. Bondy has participated in NGO- UN Conferences on women’s issues and contributed papers on gender and development issues to various fora.

Based in Ottawa, Ms. Bondy has a B.A in Political Science from the University of Waterloo and a French Language Certificate from the University of Ottawa.

Christine Gibb
Consultant
Email: chrisgibb @ gmail.com

Christine Gibb is a development consultant, with a focus on gender, youth and environmental issues. She has a broad range of experience in social science and natural science research, public outreach and project management both in Canada and internationally. Her strengths include designing and implementing participatory research and workshops, and facilitating civil society and youth engagement in international processes. Much of her work involves synthesizing research results and development messaging into accessible media such as radio scripts for rural farmers, research briefs for policy makers and education packages for students and teachers.

In addition to working with NID, Christine has worked with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace, Farm Radio International, Honey Care Africa, and Boreal Communications.

Fluent in English and French, Christine has a Master’s in Capacity Development & Extension and International Development from the University of Guelph, a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology from Queen’s University and a Certificate in Community Based Development from the Coady International Institute.

Sarah Murray
Research associate
Email: Sarah at networkedintelligence.com

Sarah Murray has a long-standing commitment to human development and passion for empowering women and youth globally. She has a proven capacity for high calibre social policy research, impact evaluation and project management. Sarah’s experiences have led to education, work and travel in over 35 countries across 5 continents.  

Sarah has strong research and evaluation competency, combined with effectual analytical thinking. Her graduate thesis assessed implementation issues and the cost-effectiveness of new biomedical HIV/AIDS prevention tools. Sarah’s research roles have spanned a diverse range of issues including gender, livelihoods, health, information communication technologies (ICTs) and sustainable environs. Recent research and policy analysis with NID included assessing gender mainstreaming materials and examining the use of ICTs in relation to climate change for women organic farmers in the Caribbean.  

Sarah’s strengths include an understanding of participatory approaches to project evaluation and impact assessment. Sarah recently evaluated the effectiveness of the International Rescue Committee’s year-long microfranchise pilot in Sierra Leone. Presently, she is working with the Liberian Ministry of Gender to coordinate a complex impact assessment.  

Sarah holds a M.D.E. in Development Economics from Dalhousie University and a B.A.H. in Computing and Information Science from Guelph University. She also sits on Human Rights Watch Toronto Network Steering Committee.

 

Shannon Pritchard
Project manager and trainer
Email: Shannon at networkedintelligence.com

Shannon Pritchard has twelve years of progressive Canadian and international experience in Project Management, with a proven ability to effectively manage business relationships, interpret needs, discern priorities and deliver results. Shannon has worked for NID in Africa and the Caribbean in various capacities including presenter at a national IT training workshop, ICT trainer for women entrepreneurs and researcher on various projects.

Fluent in English, French and Spanish, Shannon has a Master’s in Project Management and a B.A. from Queen’s University in Spanish and Latin American Studies and Political Science.

Dorienne Rowan-Campbell
Senior consultant and trainer
Email: Dorienne at networkedintelligence.com

Dorienne Rowan-Campbell has been working on a wide range of women, gender and development issues for more than 30 years. Her organic farming experience has widened the emphasis to include questions of export, access, business management, ICTs and organic production. Based out of both Canada and Jamaica, which affords a useful “bifocal” world vision; she works as an independent development consultant. Dorienne owns and manages a small, certified organic farm and produces Rowan’s Royale Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee. She is a qualified organic crop inspector, Board Member of the Jamaica Organic Agriculture Movement and interim Vice Chair of the fledgling Caribbean Regional Organic Agriculture Movement (CROAM).

In thirty years of committed effort, Dorienne has provided institutional strengthening, capacity development, training, policy and programme analysis, networking advocacy, visioning, strategic planning and alliance building and technical inputs to a wide variety of government, NGO, private sector, academic and donor clients, always adopting a participatory, change management approach.

Erich Vogt
Email: erich.vogt @ rogers.com

Erich Vogt is based in Washington D.C., he is a media development consultant designing media and communication visions, strategies and programs for NGOs and multilateral and bilateral development agencies. More recently he has been providing climate change policy advice to multi-lateral institutions, regional development banks and international NGOs. Erich is also a Professorial Lecturer at American University’s School of International Service and Senior Lecturer at the University of Guelph’s Environmental Design and Rural Development Department.

Before joining NID, Erich worked briefly in the World Bank, prior to which he was the Head of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation’s Media development office in Geneva and in Bonn.

Erich holds a Ph.D. in Political Economics from the Free University of Berlin and an M.A. in Political Science from Indiana University. He was a professional journalism fellow at Stanford University and a member of the German National Swim Team.