george rots

Set up of three new project sites including recruitment and training of national staff

Summer seasons of 1992 – 1996: tour guide in Central America and Mexico

Fieldworker for homeless youth in the inner-city of Amsterdam

Set up of a medical humanitarian mission of 14 expatriates and 180 national staff - Handle logistics concerning mobile clinics, transport, supply, warehousing, ICT and project accommodation

Tsunami Emergency Response - Provide safe water sources and appropriate sanitation, chair local water and sanitation meetings

Researcher for the International Programme on ‘Youth, Drugs and Violence’ in partnership with the Universities of Delaware, Toronto and Montreal - Responsible for the execution of the Dutch component of the project

* Represent, supervise and coordinate bilateral and multilateral emergency, recovery and capacity building programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean including a 10 million EUR Haiti earthquake programme * Programmes and projects covering primary health care for IDP’s in Colombia, livelihoods improvement, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, water and sanitation, HIV/Aids and cholera. * Successful proposal development and coordination of European Commissions’ (DIP)ECHO projects and of projects financed by EuropeAid and The Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs * Relation management, identification and acquisition * Financial management and coordination and supervision of programme implementation * Monitoring and evaluation * Supervise and support international staff deployed in the region and office staff in The Hague * Responsible for human resources and security management

KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation is the lead partner in Challenge TB. This is the world’s largest TB control program and flagship global mechanism for implementing USAID’s TB strategy and TB/HIV activities. We are currently active in 21 countries and one region in Africa, Asia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. https://www.kncvtbc.org/en/challenge-tb/

Emphasis on tropical medicine

Specialized in informal economies and urban anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean; Fieldwork and thesis on informal trade relationships on farmers' markets in Havana, Cuba (1996)