Roger Schmid

Roger Schmid’s professional background is in rural and environmental engineering with more than 12 years of experience in strategy development and program management as well as design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programs and projects in the fields of rural infrastructure development, water and sanitation, mobility and transport and soil-water management.

He has been engaged in development and disaster relief interventions as program / project manager, consultant and infrastructure specialist in water supply, environmental sanitation, mobility, transport, social housing and small enterprise development in Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, India, Nepal, Albania, Kosovo, Uzbekistan and China.

His strengths are on infrastructures at community / local level (rural and urban settings), situation analysis, public-private partnership development, institution and capacity building as well as social mobilisation including community participation and negotiation with stakeholders, accumulating more than 6 years field experience overseas.