(educational) policy research
evaluation of capacity building programmes and (basic) education projects
design of monitoring and evaluation systems for basic education, including MIS
Human Resources Development planning and capacity building
participatory programme design, action research
planning, design and production of educational materials.
Africa (West, East, Southern and the Horn), South-East Asia (Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam), South Asia (Bangladesh) and the Near East (Yemen).
Ad Boeren has been working for more than 30 years in/for development cooperation programmes, mainly in the area of international cooperation in basic and higher education. In the early eighties he worked 5 years for FAO as communication and training expert in Africa. He joined Nuffic in 1986 and conducted numerous evaluation studies of education and training projects in Africa and Asia. He was team leader of the evaluation of the second NUFU Agreement, a Norwegian research cooperation programme with institutions in the South (2000), the Sida/SAREC bilateral research programme (2006), the Flemish interuniversity cooperation programmes in Cuba (2007), the Philippines (2010) and Suriname (2012), and the Joint Review Mission of the Education Sector Development Programme in Ethiopia in 2004 and 2005. He participated in joint HRD planning and development exercises in Asia and Africa, and headed the redesign of the MIS system of the Ghana Literacy and Functional Skills programme. He acted as principal researcher and co-ordinator of several educational policy studies. He contributed as technical adviser in the design of training programmes and materials. He published numerous articles, chapters and books on the subject of capacity building and international cooperation in higher education.
As Senior Policy Adviser in Nuffic he has been involved in quality assurance of programme administration, project management, design of M&E systems, in policy studies and evaluation assignments. He has also been one of the key persons in the informal harmonisation network of administrators and donors of capacity building programmes in higher education in developing countries. A network of approximately 20 organisations from Europe and North America which convenes annually to exchange information on the programmes which they implement and how to best coordinate and harmonise activities.
implementation of policy studies on development cooperation in higher education and capacity building programmes
evaluation of capacity building, institutional development programmes and education programmes in and for developing countries, also in the capacity as team leader
expertise on education systems and programmes, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia, particularly those dealing with basic education and higher education.
design of monitoring and evaluation systems for basic and higher education, including Management Information Systems
(educational) policy research
development support communication, particularly related to rural development and primary health care programmes.
training needs assessment studies and planning of HRD strategies
participatory programme design, action research
training expertise in project planning, communication techniques, educational materials development, video production
1976 MA Anthropology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Main subjects: social anthropology, communication theories, research techniques, film making.