Staff
Kees Leendertse (Senior HRD specialist)
Simone Noemdoe (Water Management Specialist)
Noloyiso Bangani (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 left the Ministry to work on a UNDP/FAO project for development planning and management of the Great Lakes in Eastern Africa. In this regional project, Kees conducted socio-economic studies to provide information for management and trained counterpart staff on-the-job. |
| From 1992 to 1996, Kees worked with FAOs Fisheries Department at its headquarters in Rome, where he was responsible for the formulation of integrated coastal zone and inland water bodies management strategies. His main focus was on institutional organization of resources management. In this period, he managed several coastal zone and lake management projects and conducted workshops and seminars on the subject. In 1996, Kees joined WL|Delft Hydraulics.
Among other assignments, 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 the transfer of knowledge on relevant subjects. Kees is a member of the Working Group on Socio-Economic Impacts and Policy Issues of ICID. He has contributed to international forums and published several position papers on social, economic and institutional aspects of water resources management. |
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Simone Noemdoe (Water Management Specialist)
Noloyiso Bangani (Finance Associate)
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Nolo has a National Diploma in Cost and Management Accounting and a long experience working with the UN system. She brings valuable knowledge of managing finances and familiarity with the ATLAS accounting system of the UN.
Nolo adds motivation and working well under pressure as some of her other strong points. |
Shirley Machelesi (Programme Assistant)
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Shirley has a degree in Psychology and Public Administration from the University of Port Elizabeth. She is the front line person for Cap-Net and as you can see brings a cheerful smile to work each day. |
