Staff
Kees Leendertse (Senior HRD specialist)
Nick Tandi (Water Resources Specialist)
Lucas Tlhagale (Finance Associate)
Shirley Machelesi (Programme Assistant)
Dr. Paul Taylor (Director)
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Paul trained as a biologist in England and Zimbabwe. After many years carrying out health research with the Government of Zimbabwe, much of it on water and sanitation related disease, he joined the World Bank as project manager for one of the projects under the International Training Network for Water Supply and Waste Management.
This was an international capacity building network established during the water and sanitation decade. He was responsible for the transformation of the project into the Institute of Water and Sanitation Development, an institute in Zimbabwe, southern Africa with a strong regional reputation and programme. |
| More recently he has been a consultant travelling extensively in Africa on water resources management as well as water supply and sanitation. Capacity building and networking have been significant features of his work and provides valuable experience that he brings to Cap-Net. Paul played an active role in the development of the Water for People contribution to the World Water Forum in 2000.
Paul is looking forward to the challenge of responding to the ever growing demands for capacity building in water resources management and making Cap-Net a suitable vehicle to respond to some of those needs. He can be contacted on paul.taylor@cap-net.org |
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Kees Leendertse (Senior HRD specialist)
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Cornelis Adriaan (Kees) Leendertse holds an MA in social sciences from the University of Utrecht. He specialized in rural and economic development issues, with special focus on aquatic resources.
After graduation, Kees had several teaching assignments at the University of Utrecht. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1988 to assess development project proposals on their effectivity and efficiency. In 1990, Kees started work on a UNDP/FAO project for development planning and management of the Great Lakes in Eastern Africa. From 1992 to 1996, Kees worked with FAOs Fisheries Department at its headquarters in Rome, mainly on the formulation of integrated coastal zone and inland water bodies management strategies. |
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In 1996, Kees joined WL|Delft Hydraulics. He was ad-interim coordinator of a water resources planning project in Egypt and contributed to the development of a manual for environmental project development. He worked on the conceptualization of economic, social and institutional aspects of integrated water resources management. From 1998, Kees continued to work as an independent consultant on projects related to resources management and knowledge transfer on relevant subjects. In 2002 he joined Cap-Net as human resources development specialist. |
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Nick Tandi (Water Resources Specialist)
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Nick is educated in Soil Science and Social Ecology. He started his career doing monitoring and evaluation of small rural development programmes for consultancy firms. He has some formal publications in environmental management made during his tenure at the University of Zimbabwe and IUCN. Before joining Cap-Net he worked for WaterNet, a Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) IWRM Capacity Building Network. At WaterNet, he provided monitoring, evaluation and communication support to the network members and implemented the professional training programme. Nick’s academic interests are in the interface between social and ecological systems. He looks forward to the challenge of providing monitoring and evaluation support to capacity building activities that address this interface in water management. Contact Nick at nick.tandi@cap-net.org |
Lucas Tlhagale (Finance Associate)
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Lucas has a National Diploma in Cost and Management Accounting and extensive experience and skills working for UNDP. He brings a valuable knowledge of support systems, managing finances and familiarity with Atlas accounting system of the UN. He found himself as a self-starter with iniatives and always seeking new challenges without fear .He is keen on sharing knowledge and information with his colleagues. Lucas can be contaced on lucas.tlhagale@cap-net.org |
Shirley Machelesi (Programme Assistant)
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Shirley has a degree in Psychology and Public Administration from the University of Port Elizabeth. Shirley can be contacted on info@cap-net.org |
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