| Consulting firms associated with Human Solutions Consulting Owl Research & Evaluation supports organisations in analysing, assessing and evaluating activities in the communications, training/events and development fields. Owl RE is based in Geneva, Switzerland and counts amongst its clients international organisations, NGOs, foundations and technology companies. Owl RE key services include: Owl RE has been working with Human Solutions Consulting on several evaluations (ICRC and Fondation Hirondelle). The WolfGroup The WolfGroup is a Consulting Group based in Geneva, Switzerland. Our mission is to provide our clients with actionable solutions that address their real world challenges. Our key services include: Evaluation, review and fact-finding>>
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Protection of the Civilian Population>>
Advocacy and networking>> The WolfGroup has been working with Human Solutions Consulting on a major evaluation for the ICRC. A global expert in social risk and community investment programmes, Channel Research provides consultancy services to government, nongovernmental organisations and corporate clients. Channel Research focuses on humanitarian aid, human rights and the rule of law, corporate social responsibility, and conflict sensitivity, with a particular expertise of working in unstable or politically fragile social environments. Channel Research's core services: The headquarters of Channel Research are in Belgium, but the company is also registered in the UK as Channel Research UK Ltd and Burundi, where Channel Research Tanganyka has an office. Human Solutions Consulting has worked with Channel Research on several evaluations (ICRC). SIPU International is a Swedish consultancy and training organisation specialising in public service development and reform. SIPU works with parliaments, national governments, provincial and local governments and other public service organisations covering a wide range of sectors. It is working in transitional and developing countries all over the world as advisors, facilitators, trainers and experts.
SIPU International has provided support to projects financed by most bilateral and multilateral development cooperation organisations, like Sida, Norad, Danida, SDC, DfID, the World Bank, regional development banks, UNDP, and EU-funded programmes.
Human Solutions Consulting has worked with SIPU in Vietnam (SDC and SIDA) and West Africa (SIDA). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Independent consultants associated to Human Solutions Consulting
In addition to the expertise available within its own structure (as described on the present website), Human Solutions Consulting can rely on a network of internationally recognised consultants with whom it has successfully worked in the past, among them: Professor Peter Leuprecht Director of the Montreal Institute of International Studies, Université du Québec à Montréal Prof. Peter Leuprecht received a Doctorate of law from the University of Innsbruck (Austria). From 1961 to 1997, he was an official in the Secretariat General of the Council of Europe (CoE) in Strasbourg. From 1976 to 1980 he was Secretary of the Committee of Ministers and from 1980 to 1993 Director of Human Rights. In 1993, he was elected Deputy Secretary-General of the CoE; he left his post before the end of his term because of disagreement with dilution of CoE standards. Prof. Leuprecht has taught at the Universities of Strasbourg and Nancy (France) and at the European Academy of Law in Florence (Italy) and was, from 1997 to 1999, Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of McGill University and at the Département des Sciences Juridiques de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and advisor to the Canadian Department of Justice. From 1999 to 2003 he was Dean of the Faculty of Law of McGill University. Prof. Leuprecht is the author of numerous publications in the field of international law and human rights. He is currently Director of the Montreal Institute of International Studies at UQAM. Prof Leuprecht was a member of a committee of four “Sages” which prepared a human rights Agenda for the European Union. In 2000, he was appointed Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN for human rights in Cambodia. He has conducted two evaluations for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Swiss Federal Department for Foreign Affairs in cooperation with Human Solutions Consulting and has participated in an evaluation for ICRC under contract with Human Solutions Consulting. Dr. Stuart Maslen Stuart Maslen, who is based in Geneva, is an international humanitarian and human rights lawyer who has specialised in the regulation of conventional weaponry, especially landmines and cluster munitions. He holds a doctorate in international humanitarian law from the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands and a master’s degree in international human rights law from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. Among other consultancy work, he has worked as a trainer, researcher and evaluator for the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining for the past seven years and was previously an advisor to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva and UNICEF in New York and Geneva. He was a member of the ICRC delegation to the Oslo Diplomatic Conference in September 1997 and the UNICEF delegation to the Review Conference of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. In addition to experience in the negotiation, adoption and implementation of international humanitarian law, he has conducted a number of evaluations of mine action and mine risk education projects, in Burundi, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Laos and Mozambique for donors, UNICEF and NGOs. Among publications to his name is a commentary of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, published by Oxford University Press. He has conducted two evaluations for the ICRC under contract with Human Solutions Consulting. Davide Orifici Davide Orifici joined Human Solutions Consulting in April 2008. He has more than 15 years of multilateral diplomatic experience in the fields of security, disarmament, international humanitarian law, peace building and development. His professional experiences allow him to advice and consult governmental agencies, international organisations, non-governmental organisation, foundations and multi-national corporations on several issues, such as not-for-profit organisation management, organisation development, knowledge and change management, public affairs and corporate affairs. Davide Orifici worked from 2002 to 2008 as Head, Policy and External Relations at the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD). He dealt with policy issues, international humanitarian law, disarmament, communication, marketing and external relations. Before joining the GICHD, he was a diplomat with the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2001, and served in Bern and at the Swiss Mission to NATO in Brussels. From 1993 to 1997 he was Research Assistant and Personal Assistant to the Deputy Director for External Relations of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. After completing studies with a Master of Arts in Political Science at the University of Pavia, Italy, he earned a Master of Arts in International Relations and wrote a Ph.D. thesis on Co-operative Security Relations in the Western Mediterranean at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He holds an Executive MBA from HEC University of Geneva. Beside his Italian native language, he fluently speaks English, French, German and Spanish.
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