Peter Mulder

Current

• Project Manager, trainer/lecturer/facilitator, expert on social matters at Horizonty

Past

• Community Development Expert at Hulla & Co. Human Dynamics
• Project coordinator, community worker at Spolu-CZ (Later Horizonty)

Education

• Universiteit Utrecht
• Hogeschool De Horst (School for Higher Professional Education
• Baudartius College, Zutphen

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Industry

Civic & Social Organization

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Peter Mulder’s Summary

I am a consultant and expert in community work, community development and participation processes. I have several years practical experience in working with Roma and mixed (Roma/non-Roma) groups at the local level. This experience has been gained mainly during work on community development projects directed to Roma in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania. My key qualifications are:

- Experience in working in inter-cultural environments, gained in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and The Netherlands;
- Experience in applying and adjusting internationally used methods of community development to the Central and Eastern European context;
- Knowledge of, and practical experience in, social work with socially disadvantaged groups;
- Relevant academic background combined with an extensive knowledge of, and practical experience in, community work in Roma and mixed (Roma/non-Roma) communities;
- Experience in training of NGO's, municipalities and local community groups
- Experience in project management (PHARE, Structure Funds)

Peter Mulder’s Specialties:

community work in Roma communities, establishing cooperation with stakeholders on local development projects, participatory approaches, community work in urban environment

Peter Mulder’s Experience

• Project Manager, trainer/lecturer/facilitator, expert on social matters

  Horizonty

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  March 2003 — Present (5 years 5 months)

  Horizonty's activities are aimed at the use of participatory approaches in the sphere of organisational development and community work. Main
  activities of the organisation:
  – Designing and carrying out training programs and one-time
  training activities
  – Facilitation of workshops.
  – Developing and promoting participatory methods
  – Implementation of, quality standards in social services
  My tasks: Project management, financial management, fundraising, cooepration in designing and carrying ou training and workshops

• Community Development Expert

  Hulla & Co. Human Dynamics

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Human Resources industry)

  September 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 1 month)

  Coordinating and designing community development work within the two-years project in Romania „Support to the National Strategy to Improve Roma Conditions“ (RO2002/000-586.01.02: EuropeAid/114833/D/SV/RO).

• Project coordinator, community worker

  Spolu-CZ (Later Horizonty)

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)

  April 1999 — August 2003 (4 years 5 months)

  Working on the development of a network of local organisations which are on local level working with Roma- or mixed Roma/non-Roma communities. The aim of the network was to support local development, to increase the level of professionalism within the participating organisations and to support local (pilot-)projects.
  Activities within Spolu-CZ: Project-management (including long-term & financial management; fund-raising), organisation of workshops and training-seminars, and community-work. From April 1999 until August 2001 I have been working on a comprehensive community-development project in Brno, directed to housing of Roma families.

Peter Mulder’s Education

• Universiteit Utrecht

  MA, Cultural Anthropology, Specialisation: Studies of Migration, Cultures and Minorities., 1994 — 1998

  Courses:
  - Comparison of Cultures - Theory and Research
  - Multi-Ethnic Society in Theoretic Perspective
  - Migration and Minorities in Europe
  - National Identity and Ethnic Conflicts
  - Ethnic youth: Transfer of Culture; Youth-culture
  
  First research-project:
  Descriptive research about the Roma population in Brno, The Czech Republic
  
  Second research-project:
  Qualitative research within the framework of my graduate-thesis: „Contacts between Roma and the Czech majority population, seen from Roma point of view“.

• Hogeschool De Horst (School for Higher Professional Education

  Ba, Social Work, 1994 — 1998

  Specialisation: Social work directed to youth in socially disadvantaged situations.

  Activities and Societies:

  - Active in the Student Union
  - Writing an evaluation-report about the curriculum of the third year of the Department of Social Work, on request of the staff of the Department.

• Baudartius College, Zutphen

  1981 — 1987

Additional Information

Peter Mulder’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company