1. RESUME
Peter Denolf
De Sor Maria Romero, 2 cuadras al oeste, Estelí, Nicaragua
Mobile: + 505 81522902
E-mail: peterdenolf@hotmail.com ibis2015@yahoo.es
Nationality: Belgian
Residency: Nicaragua
Married and two children
21 years of experience in international non-profit organizations, mainly in Mesoamerica.
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
• Extensive coordinator background, including support of multiple senior managers and large groups. Strongly
motivated as a team leader and coordinator: taking appropriate actions, troubleshooting, managing day-to-day
activities. Preferences are clearly goal orientated.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Fluent in Spanish, English and Dutch (French reading and
speaking)
• Proven organizational skills. Large experience in managing development projects and their accurate, efficient
and timely execution. Capable to prioritize and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Counseling skills: Possessing a pragmatic intellectual orientation ability that could be indifferently applied to
academic, scientific, research, and literary, executive or consulting activities.
• Significant research skills: Experience in Organizational Capacity Assessment, identifying and selecting local
development organizations. Proven research experience in the field of potential economical growth of micro and
small entrepreneurs.
• Negotiator skills: Strongly motivated to handle a confrontation of different views and objectives; capable and
determined to develop logical strategies, and possessing communicative skills targeted to achieve an agreement,
compromise, concession, or submission by opposing positions or views.
• Managing and sharing useful knowledge experiences: Conveying and sharing information with other project
partners. Motivated to acquire whatever useful knowledge and transmitting it further to the other partners.
EXPERIENCE
Lead Consultant / Grant Proposal Writer for INSFOP-PADRE FABRETTO-CEIBO, Nicaragua (September
2016)
Lead Consultant / Grant Proposal Writer for Heifer / CATIE / SOLIDARIDAD - SAVE BID FOMIN, Heifer
International, Nicaragua (July 15th
– August 31st
2016)
Grant Writer / IBIS Nicaragua – European Commission Nicaragua (IBIS Nicaragua, July 15th
– July 31st
2016)
Lead Consultant “Climate Change Sectorial Analysis and Opportunity Mapping at Regional Levels”, Heifer
International, Nicaragua (June 7th
– July 7th
2016)
Grant writer Woord en Daad for European Commission, Nicaragua (April – June 2016)
Project Evaluator and Advisor Climate Change, FASOC / IBIS, Nicaragua (April 2016)
Grant writer and advisor, Taking Root Canada/Nicaragua (February 2016 to date)
Country Director and Legal Representative for Guatemala, Feed the Children, Inc. (February 2015 to January
2016)
Fundraising Advisor, IBIS Nicaragua, Managua, Nicaragua, (February 2014 to January 2015)

2. • Implementing of Fundraising Strategy of IBIS in Nicaragua, focused on the thematic programs of
education, governance and human rights with emphasis on indigenous peoples of the Caribbean Coast.
Program Officer, ICCO Central America, Managua, Nicaragua, (2012 – 2014)
• To identify and facilitate programs and coalitions of programs of ICCO implementing ICCO’s four main
roles: financing, intermediation, strengthening of capacities and advocacy.
• Assessment of programs, project proposals and organizations, mainly related to programs of Climate and
Forests and Fair Economic Development.
• Contributing to fundraising processes. (Successful fundraising processes with CLUA, FORD
FOUNDATION and PORTICUS)
• Monitoring and supporting partner organizations of ICCO in Mesoamerica. (Mainly Mesoamerican Alliance
of People and Forests)
Consultant / Proposal writer, INAFOR-FAO-FACILITY, GEF-PNUD-PPD, FONADEFO, FIDER, Taking
Root, among others, 2008 - 2012
Organizational/Institutional Advisor, TRIAS Belgium, Guatemala (2003-2007)
• Promoting of institutional integration processes concerning citizen participation; result obtained: four local
partner organizations obtained funding for two development projects focused on poverty reduction. (Each
project US $ 1,000,000.00)
• Promoting and strengthening local labor networks; as a result our local partner organizations got integrated into
regional, national and international platforms.
• Advice concerning the implementation of the local partner organizations programs; as a result, the local partner
organizations were guided by efficient planning.
• Legal Representation of TRIAS in Guatemala; as a result our micro-finance partner organization FUNDEA
became a totally independent and permanent institution.
• Implementing a Social Performance System in cooperation with our partner organization FUNDEA (MFI)
• Applying Organizational Capacity Assessment tools; as a result, TRIAS identified and selected three new local
partner organizations.
Director, GDLN, WORLDBANK, Managua, Nicaragua. (2002-2003)
• Developed and documented the continuous process for calling, marketing and logistic coordination of the
events of the DLC; as a result, the database of the Centre was updated accordingly and further developed to
become a useful marketing tool // Developed the external communication and events of the Center through
contacts with media, providers, donors, clients and partners // The association with the local development
agencies was strengthened, reflecting positively on the activity level of the Centre calendar and reaching
agreements with local providers.//Assisted Nicaraguan providers in developing activity proposals, as a result,
educational events were successfully achieved // Promoted and benefited of constant synergies with the World
Bank; as a result, GDLN Nicaragua became a key department of World Bank Country Office in Managua.
Administrator, Helsinki University Knowledge Services, Nicaragua. (1999-2002) External Audit, CONAPI,
Nicaragua. (1995-1999)
• External Audit of the credit program for small and micro entrepreneurs supported by CONAPI, in the Region of
Madriz and Las Segovias, Nicaragua
English Teacher, English Language Institute, Lima, Peru. (1988 – 1991)
EDUCATION/TRAINING
• University degree in Psychological and Pedagogical Sciences, obtained with distinction, University of Ghent,
Belgium. (1987) – Worked full-time since that date.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

3. • Computer skills include Windows, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Internet research.
• Traveled extensively throughout Europe, East Asia and Latin-America. Multicultural with wide international
experience.
• Excellent communication skills. Accomplished public speaker.
• Received award for conference `` Desarrollo Económico Local`` (USAC, Guatemala, 2005)