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| Phil
Bartle, social scientist, is a senior planner, trainer and adviser of development
projects.
Specialist in the sociology of communities, and in community empowerment. Educator. ... Key Qualifications: ... Over thirty years of progressively responsible positions in education, planning and management; with emphasis on social and community development, in Africa and Asia. Planning, designing, implementing and assessing projects and programmes. Three university degrees in economics, sociology and anthropology, two in Canada, one in Africa, emphasis on development. Research and publications on related issues.
... To participate in the education and socialization process of the Human family. To contribute to the international development process, building on social science training, and on planning, advising, training and management experience. ...... Experience Related to Those Objectives: ... Over a third of a century of progressively responsible positions in applied and academic social sciences: planning, community participation, programme management, economics, sociology, development. Global
Perspective and Grasp of the Issues:
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| Training
and Educational Skills:
... Set up, trained, and/or organized various short term courses in practical and applied topics, including computer applications (eg spreadsheet, word processing, data base, web pages), English (report writing, proposals, position papers, functional documents), applied sociology, animation, management and planning. Currently developing training curricula for adapting the techniques and content of corporate management training and trade union organizing to community management training for strengthening capacity of low income communities and community based organizations. ... Taught formal courses in economics, sociology, anthropology, and development in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia, in a wide range of social science topics, many related to community participation and the management of development projects. ... Formal Education: ... 1978 PhD Sociology, Anthropology University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana DISSERTATION: Urban Migrants and Rural Identity; An Ethnography of a Kwawu Community, Obo, Kwawu, Ghana ... 1971 M.A. Anthropology, Sociology The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada THESIS: African Urban Migration; A Decision Making Perspective. ... 1965 B.A . Economics, Sociology The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada ... 1961 Secondary School Diploma George Pringle High School, Westbank, B.C., Canada ... Short Courses and In-service Training: ... Received in-service training and took short term courses in practical and applied topics: computer (spreadsheet, word processing, data base), applied social work, programming, community participation, management and planning. |
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| Personal
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... Full Name: Philip Francis Wayne Bartle Date of Birth: 1943 Place of Birth: Vancouver, BC, Canada Citizenship: Canadian ... Family Status: ... Married, with three adult offspring. ... |
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| Phil Bartle |
| Detailed Employment History: |
| 2003 - 2006
Position: Instructor Camosun Community College Location: Victoria, BC, Canada ... Description of tasks: Designed and taught sociology courses. Soc 100 Introduction to social Structure and Social Organization. Soc 160: Community and Family. Writing a book: The Sociology of Communities. |
| 1999 - present
Position: Consultant Adviser Freelance Locations: Victoria, BC, Canada (short trips to UK, Nepal) ... Description of tasks: Adviser to local community groups in the Victoria area and various agencies overseas. Writing, editing and web publishing for Community Development Programme, UNCHS (Habitat) Nairobi, including an annotated bibliography of all publications produced over a fifteen year programme in Zambia, Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Ghana, Uganda, Costa Rica and Ecuador. Consultant for Coady International Institute, St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, seconded to CECI, Montreal, for the Community Groundwater Irrigation Sector Project in Terai (southern lowlands) of Nepal, participatory training needs evaluation and preparing a Capacity Development Strategy. Field Manager for the planning phase of a CIDA-funded rural water development project (IRWDP) in Inhambane, Mozambique, CEA = Cowater, Ottawa. Editor for UN-HABITAT Kosovo, Strategic Planning Process. Consolidating four books of guidelines. |
| 1994
- 1998
Position: Chief Technical Adviser UNCHS (United Nations Centre for Human Settlements) (Habitat) Locations: Kampala, Uganda, with field trips within Uganda, and missions to neighbouring countries, Mideast, Europe and other parts of Africa. (Including Arusha, Bagamoyo, Baghdad, Copenhagen, Dar es Salaam, Den Haag, Florence, Goma, Istanbul, Nairobi, Naivasha, New York) ... Description of tasks: Adviser to the Government of Uganda, Ministry of Gender, on the UNCHS-funded project, 95/UGA/013, Community Management Programme (Strengthening Community Management in the Development and Operation of Facilities and Services) administered by UNDP Kampala. Liaison with other ministries. Part of an international team, at the forefront of developing a programme of strengthening community management, for empowerment of low income communities, with pilot projects in Uganda, Ghana, Costa Rica and Ecuador. This programme develops partnerships between the United Nations, central, district and local governments, communities and community based organizations, non-governmental voluntary and private sector organizations, in the poverty reduction sector of the UN's human resource development. Created and developing an InterNet Web site with over thirty documents of information about community development, including reports and training guidelines. Assisted the UNCHS/CDP regional process in the development of EARF, the East African Resource Facility for Community Development. |
| 1993 - 1994
Position: Head of Sub Office, Mandera UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) ... Locations: Kenya: Mandera town, and Mandera District, including El Wak, Banissa, Rhamu, and Somalia: Gedo Region, including Luuq, Garba Hare; later Bu'alle ... Description of tasks: Sent to Mandera to integrate two programmes, CM (care and maintenance) of refugees in Kenya, and CB (cross border into Somalia) that had been created separately. Responsible for staff and managers of both programmes, and the integration of support services of both. Operational supervision of UNHCR staff in Banissa (about 200 Km from Mandera town), and administrative support to El Wak. Assisted in the formation of two outposts cross border into Somalia, Luuq and Garba Hare, and their continued logistics and communications support after their establishment. On mission to several places in Kenya and Somalia. Developed a comprehensive plan of action for repatriating refugees to Somalia and Ethiopia. Short missions in the Horn of Africa. On special assignment for Women Victims of Violence to set up workshops for Kenya police and NGOs, on refugee law and rights, special needs of vulnerable, and sensitivity to women's issues. |
| 1989 - 1992
Position: Team Leader, Representative for South West Asia Rädda Barnen (Swedish Save the Children) Funded by: SIDA, Swedish International Development Authority Locations: Pakistan, Afghanistan (short missions in Sweden, Geneva, Bangladesh, Nepal, India and Thailand) ... Description of tasks: First a team leader for five Swedish social workers (programme officers and trainers) and twenty local staff, seconded to UNHCR. Promoted to Representative for South West Asia. Set up a field office to develop: (a) a comprehensive programme of training in community based social work to reach vulnerable Afghan refugees (population 3.5 million) for self help activities for disabled, needy, displaced, distressed, vulnerable refugee children, (b) a programme for non refugee Pakistani children: negotiating with local NGOs, funding, advising, planning and related regional development oriented programming, and (c) with consortium of UN and NGO agencies, a community based rehabilitation programme in Afghanistan. Supervised about sixty five local and ten international staff, plus several short and long term consultants. Consulting for other international agencies in Asia. Frequent travel to parts of Asia and Europe. Limited "hands on" field work and training. Official representative for the region. |
| 1987 -1989
Position: Community Participation Promotion Adviser Associated Engineering (Burnaby BC) & ARA (Toronto) Funded by: CIDA, Canadian International Development Agency Locations: Southern Ethiopia (based in Awassa, 3 provinces) ... Description of tasks: Part of a Canadian team of long term (and several short term) advisers, implementing a community participation component in a rural water supply programme in three provinces of southern Ethiopia. Negotiated the inclusion of a health and hygiene education component, and a "project within a project" that emphasized building VIP latrines prior to low tech self help shallow wells, spring protection, small dams and some tube wells as alternative sources of potable water. Developed a "women in water" strategy for community participation. Negotiated co-operation between the Water Commission and the Ministry of Health. Under the umbrella of WSSA, the Government water authority, developed a network and a series of training workshops for some two dozen eclectic NGOs formerly working independently in the region, integrating health, hygiene education, sanitation and potable water supplies. |
| 1985 - 1987
Position: Instructor Lester Pearson College of the Pacific Funded by: Sixty governments & local fund raising Locations: Metchosin, Victoria, BC ... Description of tasks: Taught epistemology (the study of "How do you know?"). Advised students from some sixty countries. |
| 1983 - 1986
Position: Visiting Associate Professor University of Victoria (partially SFU) Funded by: BC and Canadian Governments Locations: U.Vic Campus, Duncan, & William Head Penitentiary ... Description of tasks: A project of bringing education to long term penitentiary inmates, basic literacy to university courses, funded jointly by the BC and Canada governments, initially implemented by University of Victoria, later Simon Fraser University. Taught sociology and anthropology, advised and counselled prisoners, assisted in the administration of the project. Coordinator for a transfer from one university administration to the other. Also taught as a regular visiting associate professor on the University of Victoria campus, and in an extension programme in Duncan, BC; courses in sociology and anthropology. |
| 1981 - 1982
Position: Sociologist (Planner), Social Animation Adviser W.L. Wardrop (Winnipeg) & Deloitte Haskins & Sells Funded by: CIDA, Canadian International Development Agency Locations: Tamale, Northern Region, Ghana, and Comox B.C. ... Description of tasks: Part of a multi sector team, planning and advising local governmental staff on planning for integrated regional rural development. Was the sociologist on the planning team, the social animation adviser, then the community participation adviser. (NORRIP = Northern Region Rural Integrated Programme). Contributed to the creation and development of a long term "rolling plan" planning process: identified projects (eg forestry, limestone), generated project proposals and budgets, monitored social and cultural situations (including sporadic tribal warfare) that impinge upon the planning process. Participated in a USAID funded management training programme for district chief executives (to link it to the NORRIP plan). Selected as assistant editor for the final write up of the initial plan and related projects at the Canadian team leader's location in Comox, BC. |
| 1980
Position: Visiting Associate Professor Concordia University (Sir George Williams campus) Funded by: Quebec Government Location: Montreal ... Description of tasks: Developed and taught courses on African societies, social problems, and developmental sociology. |
| 1980
Position: Visiting Fellow African Study Centre (Afrikastudiecentrum) Funded by: Netherlands Government (Aid) Locations: University of Leiden ... Description of tasks: Wrote various research articles on Africa to publish in professional journals. Guest lecturer and graduate seminar presentations for the University of Leiden, Royal Tropical Institute, and the University of Amsterdam. Taught economics at the University of Maryland overseas programme at Netherlands NATO headquarters in Brunsum. |
| 1975 - 1979
Position: Senior Lecturer, occasional acting head of dept. University of Cape Coast, Ghana Funded by: Government of Ghana Locations: Cape Coast, Ghana (research in interior of the country) ... Description of tasks: Taught courses on African topics, including development and social change. Wrote up research material to complete the PhD dissertation (defended in Nigeria, and awarded in 1979 retrospectively for 1978), and published some social and anthropological articles. Volunteered in self help projects. |
| 1971 - 1978
Position: Commonwealth Scholar, PhD Student, Lecturer University of Ghana, Legon (as a PhD student), Funded by: Ghana Government, Commonwealth Scholarship Locations: Legon, Accra, and Kwawu District of E. Province ... Description of tasks: Research on rural urban migration and social change among the Kwawu, an Akan tribe of the Guinea rain forest. Taught several sociology and anthropology courses. Volunteered in self help projects. |
| 1970 - 1971 Position:
Instructor
Capilano Community College Funded by: BC Government Locations: North Vancouver, West Vancouver ... Description of tasks: Set up an Anthropology Department and devised syllabus at community college level. Taught Anthropology. |
| 1969-1970
Position: Coordinator for B.C. CUSO, UBC President's Committee Funded by: External Aid, local fund raising Locations: UBC, Vancouver (assignments in western Canada) ... Description of tasks: B.C. co-ordination of Cuso Canadian operations: public awareness about development, information, fund raising, recruiting of volunteers, office support for local voluntary committee, focus for returned volunteers. |
| 1968 - 1969
Positions: MA student and Teaching Assistant in Anthropology, Research Assistant in Agricultural Economics University of B.C. Funded by: Government of BC Location: Vancouver, BC ... Description of tasks: Research for Agricultural Economics department head. Courses and thesis in sociology, anthropology, with emphasis on migration and development. |
| 1967 - 1968
Position: self employed Third World Traveller self and various Funded by: personal savings and odd jobs Locations: Ghana, Morocco, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Upper Volta, Togo, Uganda, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Pakistan, India, Burma, Thailand, S.Vietnam, Hong Kong, Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, Hawaii. ... Description of tasks: Odd jobs, travel to see rural peasants and urban poor in Africa and Asia at first hand. |
| 1965 - 1967
Position: Teacher CUSO; St. Peter's College Funded by: Canadian External Aid, Government of Ghana Location: Nkwatia, Ghana ... Description of tasks: Established an economics department, taught A level economics. Set up economics library. Assisted in a nearby hospital. Studied language and culture. |
| 1961 - 1965
Position: Undergraduate Student University of British Columbia Funded by: Self, scholarships, RCAF Locations: Vancouver, B.C. ... Description of tasks: Studied a range of subjects: economics and sociology majors. International House, international development issues. University Reserve officer cadet, studied logistics, management in the RCAF. |
| 1954 - 1961
As a secondary school student, worked in fruit orchards in the Okanagan valley, thinning, pruning, changing irrigation pipes, picking and orchard maintenance work during summer vacation and during spring and fall holidays, as well as after school and weekends. Also worked as a labourer at Gorman Brothers' Sawmill and Box Factory, Westbank BC. |
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| Hobbies
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... Music: ... Played guitar and saxophone in a dance band as a secondary school student. Set up and managed a dance band. Played guitar and sang during university and as volunteer overseas. Currently play guitar and electronic keyboard: entertain friends. ... Clowning: ... Learned to clown in Victoria, BC, Canada, with the Lions Club. Collaborated with Shriners. Participated in fund raising events, parades, prison and hospital visits, and entertainment events for disabled and other special needs children in Victoria. Continued with orphanage and hospital visits as a clown in Ethiopia. Occasionally was Santa (Father Christmas) in various countries. ... Community Activities: ... Because of an international career, engaged in voluntary community work in several ways at different times. Assisted in a mission hospital while teaching in rural Ghana, 1965-67. Assisted Cuso in fund raising, public education about development, and recruitment, when a returned volunteer, 1968-71. Promoted rural self help activities while a post graduate student and lecturer in Ghana, 1971-79. Member of Tamale Rotary Club while working there on a CIDA project, 1981/2. Assisted the Lions club with activities for disabled children while a professor in Victoria, 1983-87. Active in the John Howard society 1983-87: chair of the Victoria council 1985-87. ... Various Leisure Activities: ... Reading. Walking. Computer operating, word processing, coaching, programming, editing, InterNet. Writing. Editing and proof reading. Family activities. Camping. ... Public Education and Advocacy: ... Involved professionally and voluntarily in issues of public awareness in international development, prisoners rights, disabled and children's rights. ... Raising awareness about international development issues. ... As an undergraduate student, was a member of International House, worked as a volunteer on activities to raise public awareness about third world development. After returning from two years as a Cuso volunteer in Africa, joined a group of returned volunteers to fight for increased public attention on third world issues; co-founded a publication, "Bias," and volunteered with various organizations. ... Prisoners' rights. ... Was active in the John Howard society, a prisoners' rights group; became the chairperson of the Victoria board. |
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| Writing
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... Several academic articles in social journals. Concerned mainly with rural urban migration, social change among rural matrilineal rain forest Akan speaking peoples of West Africa. ... For CIDA and the Government of Ghana, a series of planning documents, primarily in the social animation and community participation sector, others in a wide range of sectors (afforestation, limestone production etc,) as part of an integrated regional rural development planning project in the Northern Region of Ghana. ... For CIDA and the Government of Ethiopia, several planning documents for putting a health, hygiene education and sanitation addition to a water supply project in the southern provinces of Ethiopia. Furthermore, drafted two manuals; (a) a handbook on animation (promotion of community participation) aimed at field workers, managers and planners, and (b) a handbook on rural water supply management. ... For Rädda Barnen in Pakistan and Afghanistan, a series of project and programme planning documents and position papers in a range of sectors, including children's rights, child slaves in the carpet industry and brick factories, community based rehabilitation of the disabled, community based social work, all based on an empowerment and community participation methodology. ... For UNCHS (Habitat), a series of training documents for strengthening the capacity of low income communities in human settlements development, including those for villages, towns urban slums, and rural districts. These included workshop handouts, trainers' guides, and guides for administrators and planners. The usual UN documents; reports, assessments, work plans. ... Created and developed an InterNet web site, with over 300 documents and about a 12 thousand files, including training materials, reports, links to other sites, a data base, and informational material about UNCHS's community development programme and several of its international projects. The URL is http://www.cec.vcn.bc.ca
... Wrote an introductory text book of the sociology of communites. |
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| Summary:
... International Professional Experience: ... Worked in private implementing agencies, UN, government and non-governmental organizations to find practical solutions needed to integrate the planning and hardware aspects of development with the community participation, mobilizing, training and education sectors.
... Institution building and management training exercises in Ghana, Canada, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Pakistan and Uganda. ... Trained managers working in NGOs, civil service organizations (including Canadian Embassy, CIDA, and governments of Ghana, Ethiopia and Uganda) and other implementing agencies. ... Put those principles and techniques to practice over a third of a century of progressively responsible positions. ... |
| Phil Bartle |
| Leadership
and Communications Skills:
... Chief Technical Adviser for United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat), based in Kampala Uganda, as adviser to UNCHS and the Government of Uganda, Ministry of Gender, for strengthening (low income) community management in the development and operation of facilities and services. ... Head of Sub Office for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Mandera, Kenya, supervising staff in two programmes, care and maintenance of refugees in Kenya, and cross border quick implementation projects in Gedo Region of Somalia. Implementation partners included some 15 NGOs, and responsibility extended to refugee sites in Banissa, El Wak and Rhamu. ... Country Representative for a Swedish NGO (non-governmental agency) in Pakistan and Afghanistan, supervising a team of expatriate social workers, medical personnel, programme officers and master trainers, and local (Pakistani and Afghan) staff, with special emphasis on women, children, disabled, and vulnerable groups, for Rädda Barnen (Swedish Save The Children), and established a Rädda Barnen Field Office for South West Asia. ... Social Services Coordinator and Team Leader, Sub Office Peshawar, UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees), seconded by Rädda Barnen under a joint programme of non-material assistance. ... Community Participation Adviser for a bilateral aid project in Southern Ethiopia, institution strengthening, communications training, curriculum development, management training, to develop a regional process of community decision making and involvement in the water, health education, and sanitation sectors, for ARA Consultants (Toronto) on contract with Associated Engineering (Vancouver) for CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency). ... Social Animation and Sociology Adviser for a Rural Regional Integrated Planning Programme (NORRIP) in Northern Ghana, applied sociological research, community development training, project design and planning in the social sector, integrated with all other sectors in an integrated (health, transport, agriculture, water, etc.) planning process, on contract with Deloitte Haskins and Sells, and W.L. Wardrop (Winnipeg) for the Canadian International Development Agency. |
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