Manfred Matz
Remagen
Summary
Strategic planner with expertise in policy advisory and data management. Proven ability to provide solutions for water governance challenges through effective communication and information systems. Demonstrated success in managing projects and developing policies in the water resources sector, focusing on hydraulic and financial aspects.
Overview
45
45
years of professional experience
Work History
Individual Consultant
GIZ
06.2013
- Design of projects in the framework of water stewardship for private and public organizations and civil society concerning improvement measures around shared water resources, Comparative study on enhancing compliance with waste water discharge regulations from 12 countries and development of a road map for improving the cooperation between private industries and public administration of Kampala city and national level on improving the water quality of channels in Kampala
Individual Consultant
GIZ
Peru
11.2012
- Advisory service for the new IWRM strategy of the Peruvian Agencia Nacional del Agua
Team leader
GTZ
Uganda
09.2012
- Project finding mission for a regional water stewardship project and drafting of the project documents to be submitted to the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation of Germany., Control advance mission of the support project to lake Chad basin commission
GIZ Individual consultant
Benin
06.2012
- Advisory service for developing an implementation strategy for IWRM for the Benin Water Administration.
Team member
west African, GIZ
03.2012
- Evaluation of the aid partners to the Niger River basin commission in Niamey
- Responsible for institutional and administrative aspects
Individual consultant
South Africa
12.2011
- Evaluation of a capacity building project for the SADC water department and selected river basin organizations.
Individual consultant
Germany
GIZ
08.2011
- Evaluation of the international advisory project on large dams and hydropower.
Individual Consultant
GIZ
Nicaragua
04.2011
- Planning of an extension to an existing water sector project towards water policy advisory.
Individual consultant
UNDP, WGF
09.2010
- Scoping study on water governance approaches of selected organisations / countries
- Presentation in form of a comprehensive Database.
Individual consultant
GTZ
India
08.2010
- Advisory mission in strategic development for the South Sudanese urban water sector., Project progress control of a GTZ support project to the International Congo of the River, based in Kinshasa (CICOS)
- French
Individual consultant
Chad
07.2010
- Preparation mission for an ex-post evaluation of a rural water supply project in Rajasthan/India supported by KfW.
Individual consultant
DR Congo, GTZ
06.2010
- Building up of a system for impact monitoring and evaluation of the support project for transboundary water management of the Congo Basin.
Individual consultant
DR Congo, GTZ
04.2010
- Preparing a strategy for training of water sector personnel throughout the DRC.
Team leader
Morocco
01.2010
- Building up of a Decision Support System for integrated water resources management in the Souss Massa basin / Agadir focussing on sustainable and efficient use of water resources.
Individual consultant
DR Congo, KfW
09.2009
- Evaluation of a KfW financed secondary drinking water support management advisory programme
Team leader
DR Congo, GTZ
07.2009
Team leader
GTZ
Algeria
10.2008
- Of a mission to evaluate the GTZ supported sector reform program on water in Algeria
- French and German.
Individual consultant
Chile
07.2008
- Advisory service to the Chilean authority regarding environmental on institutional aspects in the implementation of an IWRM and water efficiency focused Water Management policy in Chile
- Spanish.
Individual consultant
GTZ
Germany
06.2008
- Drafting of a strategy paper on the context of Water projects and Climate Change for the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development / BMZ
- German.
Individual consultant
Burkina Faso, GTZ
04.2008
- Appraisal mission for a support to the Volta River Basin Authority through GTZ with a main focus on Decision Support Systems (DSS) for transboundary water management
- English.
Independent consultant
Kinshasa/DRC
Darmstadt, Germany
03.2008
- For water management, administration and governance for national and river basin organizations and water policies, project planning and evaluations
associated Director
SIWI
03.2008
- Head of the internal Water policy advisory service to the Swedish Development agency Sida (Sida-Helpdesk)
- Task force leader for an international monitoring study on behalf of UNDESA
- Managing teams for specific water policy projects such as Water policy papers, monitoring projects etc
- Advisory service for countries water sector reform processes in the framework of the UNDP-Water governance facility
- Development of global monitoring exercises in the water supply and water management sector
- Facilitator/moderator of international donor conferences on M&E and water policies
Individual consultant
Chile
12.2007
- Appraisal mission on a support to the Chilean environmental authority for developing an approach to install IWRM principles in the Chilean water management
- Spanish.
Team leader
GTZ
Germany, Ghana, Uganda
10.2007
- Evaluation mission on a global working project on supporting the implementation of the recommendation of the World Commission on Dams
- GTZ
- German/English
Individual consultant
DR Congo, GTZ
08.2007
- Facilitation of a restructuring process of the International Commission of the river Congo, Oubangui, and Sangha (CICOS)
- French
Team leader
GTZ
06.2007
- For the evaluation of a water sector reform project on behalf of GTZ
- German
Team leader
DR Congo
04.2007
- Of a Project progress evaluation mission of an IWRM project in Toluca/Mexico for GTZ
- Spanish
Individual consultant
GTZ
Lithuania
09.2006
- Moderation of a German-Burundi water program-planning workshop in Bujumbura
- French, Organisational and political analysis mission for CICOS / Comission Internationale du Bassin Congo-Oubangui-Sangha on behalf of GTZ
- French
Individual consultant
Yemen
05.2006
- Analysis mission of the water sector in Yemen including the identification of future posts for DED personnel
- German.
Team member
DR Congo
03.2006
- Support mission to the REGIDESO for the formulation of an application to the 2nd call of the EU Water Facility on behalf of KfW
- French.
Team member
DR Congo, GTZ
03.2006
- Support mission to the REGIDESO for the formulation of an application to the 2nd call of the EU Water Facility on behalf of KfW
- French.
Team member
GTZ
Indonesia
02.2006
- Project progress control mission of a joint GTZ/KfW rural water supply project on Sumba and Timor islands
- German.
Team member
GTZ
Morocco
12.2005
- Organisational analysis of the national water supply water company ONEP with emphasis on improving internal project procedures
- Team-member contracted by KfW
- French
KfW Team member
Morocco
12.2005
- Organisational analysis of the national water supply water company ONEP with emphasis on improving internal project procedures
- Team-member contracted by KfW
- French
Team leader
GTZ
Jordan
09.2005
- Program appraisal for a new national water program integrating 5 former projects into one organisational setup
- Team-leader contracted by GTZ
Team member
DR Congo
05.2005
- Organisational analysis of the national urban water supply water company REGIDESO with emphasis on identification of improved internal procedures for small and medium towns
- Team-member contracted by KfW
Individual consultant
DR Congo, GTZ
02.2005
- Identification mission for a new GTZ water policy and sector reform advisory project
- Analysis of the water institutions and water policy and proposal for the details of the new project through a participatory process on national level.
Team member
East Timor, EC
01.2005
- Identification mission for a new EC rural development project focused on agriculture, roads, and water sector development.
Team leader
GTZ
08.2004
- Evaluation of a government advisory project supporting the water sector reform and the Tensift river basin organisation ABH-T
- Analysis of the impact of the project and the legal and administrative framework with regards to effective and integrated river basin management.
Team leader
World bank
Nigeria
06.2004
- Advisory service to the revision of the Nigerian administrative set-up of the water sector, namely the river basin organisations and the Nigerian water policy.
Team leader
Democratic Republic of Congo, GTZ
02.2004
- Project finding and institutional analysis mission for a new advisory project on water resource management and organisation in the democratic republic of Congo.
Team leader
Democratic Republic of Congo, GTZ
10.2003
- Advisory service to the Congolese government with regard to a restructuring of the water sector under the principles of integrated water resource management, river basin management and privatisation of the public water supply company REGIDESO.
Individual consultant
Water authority Hesse
Germany
03.2003
- Advisory service for the building up of an institutional partnership between the Regional Department of the Ministry and the Malian Water Authority “Direction Nationale de l’Hydraulique” in the light of structural changes of the “European Water Framework Directive”
Independent consultant
Darmstadt, Germany
01.2003
- For Water management and evaluation of development programs
Individual consultant
Spain
10.2002
- Study tour to Spanish institutions of the water sector
- Several Water confederations (in Madrid and Barcelona) were subject to intense exchange about challenges of the ongoing restructuring process in the frame of the WFD.
Team leader
France, Germany
05.2001
- Study tour for representatives of the Malian water authority to learn about French water administration
- The contacts with the water agency Seine-Normandie, the water supplier SAGEP and SEDIF (Paris) and the French ministry of environment gave the participants an inside view about organisational aspects of the water sector and the achievements of their restructuring with regard to the WFD in France., Study tour for representatives of the Malian water authority to learn about German water administration
- The contacts with several water suppliers, the Ministry of Water of Hessen and the professional administrations ATV-DVWK gave the participants an inside view about organisational aspects of the water sector and the achievements of their restructuring with regard to the WFD in Germany.
Head
GTZ
Germany
10.1997
- Of mission
- Study tour to several water suppliers in former East Germany focusing on experiences with privatisation and private sector involvement
- The tour was organised to give the Sri Lankan Minister for Works and Urban Housing an inside view of first experiences with water sector reform activities in a political new environment
- Papers and Publications
- Numerous lectures and presentations on administrative aspects of Water resource management, development projects and strategies and private and public water supply on different occasions and in different languages
- Most important papers/lectures: “How to finance water resources management”
- M
- Matz and Hübschen, K./GIZ
- Study on different financing mechanisms for water resources management
- March 2012, Eschborn «Evaluation report 2010:3: The Finnish Development Cooperation in the Water Sector »
- Report on the multi-country evaluation of all projects financed by the Finish aid in Watersupply, Waste Water (städt
- Ldl.) between 1995 and 2009
- Project team: Manfred Matz (Team leader), Bob Blankwaardt, Soumaya Ibrahim-Huber
- Helsinki / 2010
- Status of Implementation of CSD-13 Policy Actions on Water and Sanitation / A country level survey»
- Scoping study on the implementation of the CSD policy action on water and sanitation covering 35 countries
- December 2008, UNDESA, New York
- Rethinking IWRM under Cultural Considerations”
- Article about the impacts of cultural differences in applying sector reforms in water management
- (In “Water Politics and Development Cooperation”; Springer; Berlin/Heidelberg 2008; ISBN: 978-3-540-76706-0) “The On the verge of a new Water Scarcity / A call for good governance and human ingenuity”
- A policy brief for central governments in developed and developing countries, sub-sovereign national bodies, universities and research institutes, community organisations, banks and private investors, aid donors, multilateral financial institutions, UN agencies and other international organisations.
Head of Programme
GIZ
Tunis
07.2016 - 04.2025
Team leader
07.2015 - 01.2014
- Integrated expert
- Kinshasa
- Head of an advisory assistance project financed by KfW for 14 towns in the DRC; delegated Director of the national water supplier REGIDESO., of an advisory assistance project for 14 towns’ water supply operators of the REGIDESO
- Team leader of a 10 (technics, accounting, water quality, economy) plus 70 sensitization staff;
- Development of internet-based information systems on production and financial data of the 14 towns;
- Capacity building and training of up to 100 staff of the local operating units;
- Restructuring of the 14 towns to increase their autonomy from central level of REGIDESO;
- National director of the Coordination unit for the 14 pilot towns with up to 100 staff.
Uganda
08.2013 - 12.2013
Individual consultant
Zambia
09.2013 - 11.2013
- Training of SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTION (SAIs) of the member countries of the Lake Chad Basin Commission LCBC on issues of transboundary water management as part of their environmental audit of the lake Chad.
Manager
Tanzania, Geita Goldmining ltd
07.2011 - 05.2013
- Joint venture between Geita Gold Mine (Anglo Gold Ashanti) and Geita town / district council for a water supply system for Geita town (total budget ca
- 13 Mio USD)
- Supervision of tender process, construction, legal issues between partners and the design of an economically viable operation for the Water supply system.
Niger GIZ, Individual consultant
Burundi
Zimbabwe
12.2006 - 01.2013
- Moderation of a planning workshop for the second phase of the GIZ assistance program to the Agence DU Bassin du Niger
- RioZIm mining
- Individual consultant
- Identification of possible cooperation projects in water stewardship between RioZim and development partners.
Individual consultant
Benin, GIZ
06.2012 - 12.2012
- Development of administrative regulations for the water sector (water abstraction) and integrating IWRM into administrative processes
Individual consultant
DR Congo, GIZ
05.2011 - 12.2011
- Long term advisory service for organizational development and international river basin policies with the Congo river Basin organization CICOS
Individual consultant Advisor
GIZ
Germany
02.2011 - 10.2011
- To the water-energy-food nexus conference in Bonn 2011.
Individual consultant
GIZ
Germany, India
01.2011 - 11.2010
- Desk study on financing mechanisms for Water Resources Management
- Analysis of 8 countries Benin, Kenya, Namibia, Yemen, Zambia, Morocco, France and Germany., Ex-post Evaluation of rural water supply project in Rajasthan / India10
- South Sudan
- GTZ
Team leader
Finland / Vietnam
Nepal, Ethiopia
MFA, Finland
09.2009 - 03.2010
- Evaluation of the Finnish Water sector cooperation of the foreign ministry of Finland (MFA) between 1995 and 2009 with special focus on integrated water resources management and climate change adaptation
- Budget ca
- 250 TUSD
Team leader
DR Congo
01.2003 - 04.2009
- Of a GTZ financed identification mission of water information system in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- French
Individual consultant
GTZ
Morocco
01.2002 - 04.2009
- Advisory service for the valuing of the outputs of the IMPETUS water and climate research program into the GTZ IWRM program in Morocco and building up an impact monitoring system for the same program focusing on a Decision Support System (DSS) for efficient and sustainable water uses.
Team leader
UNDESA
01.2003 - 12.2008
- Evaluation of the implementation of the CSD 13 policy actions in 35 countries for UNDESA in behalf of SIWI
- Specific analysis of the countries water policies and their development
- Comparative easy to grab visual presentation of results.
Team leader
EC
01.2005 - 11.2008
- Of the Evaluation of the European Union Water Initiative – Country dialogue in Africa on behalf of SIWI
- Total budget 120 USD
Project Director
Stockholm International Water Institute
Stockholm, Sweden
07.2006 - 03.2008
Individual consultant
DR Congo
01.2000 - 06.2006
- Evaluation of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agencies (EPA) water management projects in Latvia and Lithuania
Senior Water Advisor
German Development Service
Bonn, Germany
05.2005 - 06.2006
Senior Expert
05.2005 - 06.2006
- For the water sector of 'Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst' (DED)
- Personnel identification and selection for DED positions
- Water sector Policy development and cooperation at DED
- Advisory service for the elaboration and adaptation of country profiles
- Spokesperson for the DED water sector in German Development Assistance
Team leader
Mali
Switzerland
04.2003 - 06.2003
- Operational audit of the institutional reform project “Projet d’appui institutionnel-Eau” targeting institutional set-ups for participatory water resource management in the region of Sikasso.
Team leader
Mali, European Commission
Mali
04.2003 - 06.2003
- Operational audit of the financing institution ANICT for decentralised communes with special emphasis on the technical assistance supplied for through the EU funded project “Appui aux démarrages des communes”
Advisor
German Technical Corporation, GTZ
West
11.1999 - 12.2002
- To the Ministry of Water for sector policy development and restructuring of the water authority “Direction Nationale de l’Hydraulique” (DNH)
Project manager
MALI
11.1999 - 12.2002
- As government advisor for the water sector on behalf of 'Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit' (GTZ)
- Management of a 3 Mio USD policy advisory project on behalf of GTZ
- Restructuring of the national water administration, mainly “Direction National de l’Hydraulique” (DNH) to take on new roles within the newly decentralized political environment
- Advisory service for the elaboration and adaptation of laws and by-laws regarding to the new responsibilities of the water administration
- Strategy and regulatory framework development for the rural and semi-urban water supply sector
- Policy development with regard to the control of private and communal service providers in the water supply and sanitation sector
- Spokesperson for the European aid organizations in the water sector in Mali
Technical desk officer
Eschborn, Germany
12.1996 - 10.1999
- For water supply and water resource management projects in Africa and Latin America
Desk officer
Technical Department
GERMANY
12.1996 - 10.1999
- For environmental issues of 'Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit' (GTZ)
- Development of concepts for projects of the German Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development in the aforementioned fields of rural and urban water supply
- Design, management, and personnel recruitment for GTZ-projects in mainly Mali, Benin, Peru, Palestine
- Technical Backstopping in the area of rural water supply O+M schemes, urban water supply management, water policy development, data treatment and visual processing through GIS and in aspects of privatisation, decentralisation, leakage management, participatory planning and monitoring procedures
- Elaboration of schemes for financial sustainability of rural water supply systems including a tool for calculation of cost pricing for water supply schemes (EASYCOST)
- Member of TC-working groups ‘Management-Information-Systems / commercialisation / privatization’ and internal organizational development of the technical section of GTZ
- Elaboration of an internal task-monitoring data-base system for the GTZ Management
consultant Darmstadt Consultant
12.1995 - 11.1996
- For different development projects mostly for “German Agro-Action” (DWHH).
Advisor
GTZ
09.1992 - 11.1995
- To the regional water and roads authorities in Tamale / Northern Region
- Program for Rural Action’ (PRA)
Expatriate advisor
09.1992 - 11.1995
- In the GTZ-project ‘Programme für Rural Action’
- Tamale
- Sector policy advisory service to the Northern Region departments of the sector authorities 'Ghana Water and Sewerage Corporation' (GWSC) (‘Community Water and Sanitation Division (CWSD) and the 'Department of Feeder Roads' (DFR)
- Management advisory service to the regional departments of GWSC/CWSD and DFR in the fields of the organizational structure, personnel recruitment, financing, MIS, and private sector development
- Tender procedures for rural water supply and sanitation and feeder road construction
- Advisory service on community managed O+M and financing schemes for rehabilitation and renewal of rural water supply schemes
- Advisory service for ground water development, using remote sensing techniques and geophysics
- Advisory service for small scale private sector involvement in well construction and O+M of individual and pipe born water supply systems
German Development service
02.1992 - 08.1992
Technical advisor
MALI, Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst
Berlin
02.1992 - 08.1992
- Projet Réhabilitation des Barrages et Pistes au Plateau Dogon', Bandiagara
- Rehabilitation of community managed small-scale dams for irrigation purposes
- Development of rural O+M systems for small-scale dams
- Sector co-ordination of projects on the ‘Plateau Dogon’.
Specialist
Burkina Faso / West
07.1989 - 01.1992
- For rural roads and micro-dams
- Projet de réhabilitation des Barrages et Pistes’, for gully erosion control
- Projet Agro-Écologie’ (PAE
Expatriate advisor
BURKINA FASO
07.1989 - 01.1992
- DED
- Projet Agro-Ecologie’, Ouahigouya
- Design and construction of gully-erosion-protecting-measures through community management
- Hydrological study on watershed run-off calculation / Adaptation of ‘rough sills’ as measure of protection against gully-erosion to local conditions
- Integrated rural development using enlarged aerial photographs.
NICARAGUA
01.1988 - 12.1989
- Practical trainings with the ‘Instituto Nicaragüense de Acueductos y Alcantarrillados’ in Matagalpa (as part of the study)
- Design of an addition water supply for the city of Matagalpa from a surface water reservoir
- Management of the topographical survey for the pipeline through the northern mountain chain
- Design of a water supply scheme for the city of Matagalpa (thesis)
Technical desk officer
SANIPLAN ltd
Frankfurt
04.1989 - 06.1989
- For water supply projects in Africa and Latin America.
Program officer
with
Frankfurt, Germany
04.1989 - 06.1989
- Backstopping of rural water supply and sanitation projects as well as urban water supply projects (Congo, Guinea, Peru, Paraguay)
Manfred Matz / Engineer of Water Resources– Project Manager
FH Bielefeld, Matagalpa
Darmstadt, Germany, Nicaragua
12.1984 - 03.1989
- Curriculum Vitae
- Personal Data
- Last Name: MATZ
- First, Mobile: +243-(0)999501444
- Email: manfredmatz@online.de; Born on 11th of February 1959 in Hameln / Germany; married, 1 child
- Professional background
- Civil Engineering (Water Management / MSc equivalent)
- Major professional areas
- Planning, Concept development, evaluation and Management
- Management of development projects and team leader of up to 80 staff;
- Integrated expert, National director of up to 100 staff;
- Design and evaluation of development projects;
- Development of monitoring and evaluation systems;
- Process analysis and organizational development of water institutions
- Water Sector areas
- Water policy and strategy advisor in the national and transboundary context;
- Advisory service in organizational, institutional and financial aspects of water supply and water resources management (IWRM);
- Viability investigations and advisory service of water suppliers;
- Water stewardship project design and development;
- Institutional, financial and legal analysis and advisory service for Water Resources Management and Water Supply organizations;
- Project management for water supply and water resource management projects;
- Think pieces, Policy papers and articles about different objects of water management., Water resource management study and thesis, Study and thesis in Matagalpa / Nicaragua
- Extracurricular activity: Management of a local water supply and sanitation project in Terrabona / Nicaragua.
NICARAGUA
01.1982 - 12.1988
- Responsible for an NGO Project in Rural water supply and Sanitation (during study)
- Several trips during the indicated period amounting to 6 months
- Establishment and management of a rural water supply and Sanitation project in the northern department of Matagalpa
- Management of the EU (co-financing) funds for the Nicaraguan project
- Key areas of the project: Hygiene education, construction of water supply and Sanitation schemes and O+M systems, community management
- Management of several student work camps (areas of water supply and construction)
LATZEL ltd
Hameln, Germany
04.1982 - 11.1984
- Vocational training with certificate of completion
- Extracurricular activity: Management of a local water supply and sanitation project in Terrabona / Nicaragua.
Movimento Laico de America Latina
Italy, Nicaragua
01.1980 - 12.1981
- Central America
- Development aid volunteer of an integrated development program
- Construction of rural water supply and water-free waste water systems (ECOSAN)
- Experiences: long term assignments
Volunteer
NICARAGUA, Movimento Laico de America Latina
Verona, Italy
01.1980 - 12.1981
- In an integrated rural development project
- Well and pipeline construction advisory service in self-help water supply projects
- Promotion and building of water-free ECOSAN rural sanitation devices
Education
MSc equivalent - Water Management
FH Bielefeld
03.1989
Vocational training -
LATZEL ltd.
Hameln, Germany11.1984
Skills
- Team manager
- Problem-solving
- Out of the box thinking
- Charismatic Communicator
- Policy and strategy sparring partner
Country Experiences
- Algeria
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Congo (DR)
- Congo (R)
- East Timor
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- France
- Germany
- Ghana
- Guinea
- India
- Indonesia
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Mali
- Mexico
- Morocco
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Palestine Territories
- Tanzania
- Peru
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- South Sudan
- Syria
- Thailand
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zimbabwe
Professional Career
- 07/2015 - Present, KfW, Kinshasa, DRC, Team leader and integrated expert, Head of an advisory assistance project financed by KfW for 14 towns in the DRC; delegated Director of the national water supplier REGIDESO.
- 03/08 - Present, Self employed, Kinshasa, DRC, Independent consultant, Consultant for water management, administration and governance for national and river basin organizations and water policies, project planning and evaluations.
- 07/06 - 03/08, Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), Stockholm, Sweden, Project Director
- 05/05 - 06/06, German Development Service (DED), Bonn, Germany, Senior Water Advisor
- 01/03 - Present, Self employed, Darmstadt, Germany, Independent consultant
- 11/99 - 12/02, German Technical Corporation (GTZ), Mali, West Africa, Advisor to the Ministry of Water
- 12/96 - 10/99, GTZ, Eschborn, Germany, Technical desk officer
- 12/95 - 11/96, Independent consultant, Darmstadt, Germany, Consultant for different development projects
- 09/92 - 11/95, GTZ, Ghana, West Africa, Advisor to the regional water and roads authorities
- 02/92 - 08/92, German Development service (DED), Mali, West Africa, Specialist for rural roads and micro-dams
- 07/89 - 01/92, Burkina Faso, West Africa, Specialist for gully erosion control
- 04/89 - 06/89, SANIPLAN ltd., Frankfurt, Germany, Technical desk officer
- 12/84 - 03/89, FH Bielefeld + Matagalpa, Matagalpa, Nicaragua, Study and thesis
- 04/82 - 11/84, LATZEL ltd., Hameln, Germany, Vocational training
- 01/80 - 12/81, Movimento Laico de America Latina (MLAL), Nicaragua, Central America, Development aid volunteer
Papers And Publications
- How to finance water resources management, http://agriwaterpedia.info/wiki/File:GIZ,_H%C3%BCbschen,_K.,_Matz,_M._%282011%29_How_to_finance_water_resources_management.pdf
- Evaluation report 2010:3: The Finnish Development Cooperation in the Water Sector, http://formin.finland.fi/public/default.aspx?contentId=208084&nodeId=15454&contentlan=2&culture=en-US
- Status of Implementation of CSD-13 Policy Actions on Water and Sanitation / A country level survey, http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/resources/res_pdfs/publications/water/UN_DESA_CSD13_Monitoring_report_on_Water_and_Sanitation.pdf
- Rethinking IWRM under Cultural Considerations, http://www.springer.com/environment/pollution+and+remediation/book/978-3-540-76706-0
- On the verge of a new Water Scarcity / A call for good governance and human ingenuity, http://www.siwi.org/documents/Resources/Policy_Briefs/PB_Water_Scarcity_2007.pdf
- The right (?) of access (?) to water supply and sanitation (?), http://www.siwi.org/documents/Resources/Water_Front/WF-4-2006.pdf
- Gully-erosion phenomena in semi-arid regions, http://www.econbiz.de/Record/w%C3%BCstenwind-und-tropenregen-erfahrungen-von-fachkr%C3%A4ften-des-deutschen-entwicklungsdienstes-in-der-umwelt-und-ressourcensicherung-hopp-j%C3%BCrgen/10004148407
Last Name
Matz
First Name
Manfred
Residential Address
Kinshasa, DRC
Children
1
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 02/11/59
- Marital Status: married
Professional Background
Civil Engineering (Water Management / MSc equivalent), Planning, Concept development, evaluation and Management, Management of development projects and team leader of up to 80 staff, Integrated expert, National director of up to 100 staff, Design and evaluation of development projects, Development of monitoring and evaluation systems, Process analysis and organizational development of water institutions, Water policy and strategy advisor in the national and transboundary context, Advisory service in organizational, institutional and financial aspects of water supply and water resources management (IWRM), Viability investigations and advisory service of water suppliers, Water stewardship project design and development, Institutional, financial and legal analysis and advisory service for Water Resources Management and Water Supply organizations, Project management for water supply and water resource management projects, Think pieces, Policy papers and articles about different objects of water management
Languages
English
Advanced (C1)
French
Advanced (C1)
Spanish
Advanced (C1)
Arabic
Elementary (A2)
Italian
Upper intermediate (B2)
Timeline
Head of Programme
GIZ
07.2016 - 04.2025
Team leader
07.2015 - 01.2014
Individual consultant
Zambia
09.2013 - 11.2013
Uganda
08.2013 - 12.2013
Individual Consultant
GIZ
06.2013
Individual Consultant
GIZ
11.2012
Team leader
GTZ
09.2012
GIZ Individual consultant
Benin
06.2012
Individual consultant
Benin, GIZ
06.2012 - 12.2012
Team member
west African, GIZ
03.2012
Individual consultant
12.2011
Individual consultant
08.2011
Manager
Tanzania, Geita Goldmining ltd
07.2011 - 05.2013
Individual consultant
DR Congo, GIZ
05.2011 - 12.2011
Individual Consultant
GIZ
04.2011
Individual consultant Advisor
GIZ
02.2011 - 10.2011
Individual consultant
GIZ
01.2011 - 11.2010
Individual consultant
UNDP, WGF
09.2010
Individual consultant
GTZ
08.2010
Individual consultant
Chad
07.2010
Individual consultant
DR Congo, GTZ
06.2010
Individual consultant
DR Congo, GTZ
04.2010
Team leader
01.2010
Individual consultant
DR Congo, KfW
09.2009
Team leader
Finland / Vietnam
09.2009 - 03.2010
Team leader
DR Congo, GTZ
07.2009
Team leader
GTZ
10.2008
Individual consultant
07.2008
Individual consultant
GTZ
06.2008
Individual consultant
Burkina Faso, GTZ
04.2008
Independent consultant
Kinshasa/DRC
03.2008
associated Director
SIWI
03.2008
Individual consultant
12.2007
Team leader
GTZ
10.2007
Individual consultant
DR Congo, GTZ
08.2007
Team leader
GTZ
06.2007
Team leader
DR Congo
04.2007
Niger GIZ, Individual consultant
Burundi
12.2006 - 01.2013
Individual consultant
GTZ
09.2006
Project Director
Stockholm International Water Institute
07.2006 - 03.2008
Individual consultant
05.2006
Team member
DR Congo
03.2006
Team member
DR Congo, GTZ
03.2006
Team member
GTZ
02.2006
Team member
GTZ
12.2005
KfW Team member
12.2005
Team leader
GTZ
09.2005
Team member
DR Congo
05.2005
Senior Water Advisor
German Development Service
05.2005 - 06.2006
Senior Expert
05.2005 - 06.2006
Individual consultant
DR Congo, GTZ
02.2005
Team member
East Timor, EC
01.2005
Team leader
EC
01.2005 - 11.2008
Team leader
GTZ
08.2004
Team leader
World bank
06.2004
Team leader
Democratic Republic of Congo, GTZ
02.2004
Team leader
Democratic Republic of Congo, GTZ
10.2003
Team leader
Mali
04.2003 - 06.2003
Team leader
Mali, European Commission
04.2003 - 06.2003
Individual consultant
Water authority Hesse
03.2003
Independent consultant
01.2003
Team leader
DR Congo
01.2003 - 04.2009
Team leader
UNDESA
01.2003 - 12.2008
Individual consultant
10.2002
Individual consultant
GTZ
01.2002 - 04.2009
Team leader
05.2001
Individual consultant
DR Congo
01.2000 - 06.2006
Advisor
German Technical Corporation, GTZ
11.1999 - 12.2002
Project manager
MALI
11.1999 - 12.2002
Head
GTZ
10.1997
Technical desk officer
12.1996 - 10.1999
Desk officer
Technical Department
12.1996 - 10.1999
consultant Darmstadt Consultant
12.1995 - 11.1996
Advisor
GTZ
09.1992 - 11.1995
Expatriate advisor
09.1992 - 11.1995
German Development service
02.1992 - 08.1992
Technical advisor
MALI, Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst
02.1992 - 08.1992
Specialist
Burkina Faso / West
07.1989 - 01.1992
Expatriate advisor
BURKINA FASO
07.1989 - 01.1992
Technical desk officer
SANIPLAN ltd
04.1989 - 06.1989
Program officer
with
04.1989 - 06.1989
NICARAGUA
01.1988 - 12.1989
Manfred Matz / Engineer of Water Resources– Project Manager
FH Bielefeld, Matagalpa
12.1984 - 03.1989
LATZEL ltd
04.1982 - 11.1984
NICARAGUA
01.1982 - 12.1988
Movimento Laico de America Latina
01.1980 - 12.1981
Volunteer
NICARAGUA, Movimento Laico de America Latina
01.1980 - 12.1981
Vocational training -
LATZEL ltd.
MSc equivalent - Water Management
FH Bielefeld