This document provides information on Leon Tomesen, including his nationality, education, areas of expertise, country experience, and summary of relevant experience. Tomesen has over 25 years of experience designing monitoring, evaluation and learning systems for private sector and market development projects. He has led over 30 evaluations and reviews and has extensive experience working with bilateral and multilateral development partners on projects focused on small and medium enterprise development across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

1. Name
Leon Tomesen
Nationality: Dutch
Residency: Kenya
Education: MSc in Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology
Speciality Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL)
Areas of expertise Designing monitoring, evaluation and learning systems for private sector
and market development projects; undertaking evaluations and quality
assurance of complex, multi-sector private sector development initiatives.
Country experience Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Georgia, India, Kenya, Lesotho,
Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda,
Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, Ukraine, United
Kingdom, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Summary of relevant
experience
 Designed and conducted 38 evaluations and reviews of development
programmes, predominantly related to improving regional and global
business competiveness of small and medium enterprises and
enhancing the private sector and trade enabling environment.
 Well versed with international best practice standards in evaluation,
including the DAC Quality Standards for Development Evaluation and
the DCED Standard for Results Measurement.
 Acted as team leader in 37 missions, of which 11 monitoring and
evaluation missions.
 Expertise working flexibly and effectively with development partners
and public and private sector entities involved in private sector and
trade development.
 Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate
findings and recommendations of evaluations and review in a
comprehensible manner, including for less technical stakeholders.
 Work experience with bi-lateral development partners (Netherlands
Ministry of Foreign Affairs; CBI; DFID; SDC; USAID and ADA;
multilateral development partners (EC; ITC; UNDP; and AfDB); and
commercial contractors and NGOs (PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC -
Kenya); PRIDE Africa (Kenya); Arcadis (Netherlands); Triodos-Facet
(Netherlands); The Springfield Centre for Business in Development
(UK); CARE International; Adam Smith International (UK); Cardno
Emerging Markets, APE (Netherlands); Cambridge Education (UK)).
Further information on selected projects
Global Advisory Services Deed of Standing Offer for Monitoring and Evaluation,
AusAID, 06-2013-06/2019.
Pre-qualified consultant to lead or contribute to independent evaluations of aid
activities, including consulting stakeholders, developing the evaluation plan,
gathering and analysing data and preparing the evaluation report.
Nigeria Developing Effective Private Education - Nigeria (DEEPEN), 11/2013-02/2015.
Provided expert advice to a DFID funded development programme that applied
an inclusive market development approach to support more than 15,000 private
basic education schools with more than 1.2 million pupils in Lagos State.
Facilitated the design of a comprehensive monitoring, evaluation and learning
(MEL) framework, using result chains and log frames.
Global Evaluation Export Coaching Programmes (ECP) of the Centre for the
Promotion of Imports from developing countries (CBI), 01/2014-03/2014.
Evaluated, as private sector development advisor, for the Netherlands Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, the export coaching programmes (ECPs) of CBI against the
evaluation criteria of efficiency, effectiveness, relevance, sustainability, impact
and managing for results.

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Yemen Evaluation of the Yemen Country Programme, European Commission (EC),
06/2013-02/2014.
Evaluated, for the European Commission, all private sector development aspects
of an overall independent assessment of the European Union's past and current
co-operation and partnership relations with Yemen for the period 2001-2013.
Uganda Evaluation and strategic advice on Traidlinks, Irish Aid, 11/2012-01/2013.
Evaluated a project administered by Irish private sector executives. Provided
recommendations on improving the ability of private sector businesses in the
East African Union to access local, regional and international markets and
advised on the overall Irish Aid strategy for private sector development in Africa.
Netherlands Task Force for Managing for Development Results, 5-8/2011.
Advised the Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries (CBI)
on a monitoring and evaluation document based on the measurement standards
of the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED).
Kenya
Tanzania
Uganda
Quality assurance for a regional trade support institution development
programme, 2/2009-7/2011: 4 missions.
Facilitated, for CBI, that the objectives and intended outcomes and outputs of a
programme to support public trade support institutions in East Africa were
achieved. Systematically reviewed the effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability
of the programme and reviewed and disseminated lessons learned.
Global Review of the preparatory phases (identification, feasibility and formulation)
of the Netherlands Trust Fund (NTF-II), 02-06/2010.
Reviewed, for ITC, the effectiveness, efficiency and value for money of the
preparatory phases (identification, feasibility and formulation) – of the NTF II
programme, aiming at improving the export competitiveness of SMEs in selected
countries worldwide. Provided strategic and operational advice.
Netherlands
Switzerland
Strategic support to the Steering Group of the Netherlands Trust Fund (NTF-
II): 10-11/2009
Developed, for CBI, a governance structure and a system and manuals for
monitoring and evaluation for a joint CBI/ITC programme aiming at improving the
export competitiveness of SMEs in selected countries worldwide.
Senegal Review and re-design of support for Agence Sénégalaise de Promotion des
Exportations (ASEPEX), 10/2009-3/2010: 2 missions.
Carried out, for CBI, a mid-term review and subsequently carried out a participatory
Logical Framework Analysis and SWOT analysis for the re-design of a strategic
plan for ASEPEX.
Peru Mid-term review of institutional support programme for the Lima Chamber of
Commerce (LCC), 11-12/2008
Reviewed, for CBI, the effectiveness, relevance, efficiency, sustainability and value
for money) of an institutional support project for the Lima Chamber of Commerce
(LCC) and recommended strategy changes.
Kenya Institutional and Financial Appraisal and End of Project Evaluation of the
Small and Micro Enterprise Programme (SMEP) (DFID/USAID) (10/2002-
12/2002)
Appraised, for DFID & USAID, operations, practices and institutional
development and growth plans and advised on a strategy for SMEP to become a
sustainable microfinance institution.
Ethiopia Review and development of African Village Financial Services(AVFS)
Partnership Project (CARE Ethiopia) (04/1999-09/1999)
Facilitated, for CARE Ethiopia, the development of a management information
system, carried out a base-line survey and build the capacity of the Board of
Directors of the microfinance institution AVFS.

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Tanzania Output to purpose review of Micro- Irrigation Promotion Project (MIPP), 1-
2/2002.
Carried out, for DFID, an output-to-purpose review of a project meant to improve
access to manually operated water-pump technology by emerging and growth
farmers on a sustainable basis and recommended amendments to the project
strategy and logical framework.
Bangladesh Output to Purpose (OPR) review of the Bangladesh Export Marketing
Assistance Programme (BEMAP), 6-7/2001
Reviewed, for DFID, an export promotion programme and suggested new
options for strategy, performance targets and institutional arrangements.
South Africa Output to purpose review (OPR) of projects under the Small Enterprise
Development Programme, 6-7/2001
Carried out, for DFID, an OPR of (i) the Business Linkages Programme (BLP);
and (ii) the Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI). Suggested strategy
revisions for these projects in order to achieve greater impact, in particularly by
adopting a systemic market development approach.
India Strategic Review and Planning Workshop for the Rajasthan Chamber of
Commerce and Industry (RCCI), 8-11/2000.
Provided Swiss Development Corporation (SDC), on the basis of a formal review
and a follow-up workshop, advice on a new cooperation phase between RCCI
and SDC, including a redefinition of project objectives, focus on high potential
sub-sectors, target group of SMEs, and cooperation with BDS providers.
Zambia Strategic review of the Care-Prospect microfinance programme in Lusaka,
07/1999-08/1999.
Led a team that assessed, for CARE Zambia, the financial viability, management
arrangements and stakeholder participation of the microfinance institution
PROSPECT, aiming at increasing economic security and employment
opportunities of poor families and micro-entrepreneurs in peri-urban areas.
Tanzania Case study: AMKA: Export Market Development Services for SMEs, DFID
(07/1998)
Reviewed, for DFID, the approach and achievements of AMKA, a charitable
trust/NGO, providing business development services for the honey SME sector in
Tanzania. The findings and recommendations were published in the Journal
Small Enterprise Development (Vol. 10, No. 4) and used as inputs for the
Preliminary Guidelines for Donor-Funded Interventions of the Donor Committee
for Small Enterprises.
Other relevant information
Publications
 Tomesen, L. and Alan Gibson (1999) Amka, Tanzania-Export Market Development Services
for SMEs, Small Enterprise Development, Vol. 10, No. 4.
 Tomesen, Leon B.M. and Henk Thomas (1992) Small for Development; An account of 10 years
Pakistan - Netherlands Industrial Development Co-operation, Royal Netherlands Embassy,
Pakistan, Islamabad. ISBN 969 8176 00 1.
 Frerks, George E., Henk Thomas and Leon B.M. Tomesen (1990) Effect Monitoring and
Impact Evaluation, Royal Netherlands Embassy. Pakistan, Islamabad.
 Bhandari, V.K. [et al.] (1983) Drawing + Design, Databook for Mechanical Engineering, Swiss
Development Co-operation, Berne.
 More than 20 papers on a variety of development issues were presented at national, regional
and international workshops and seminars.
Activities in civic affairs
 1992-1994: Official delegated adviser of the Netherlands' government to the United Nations
Centre for Human Settlement (Habitat), Nairobi, Kenya.
 1999-2003: Member of the Board of Governors of the Institute of Banking, Finance and

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Management (IBFAM) in Pakistan.
 1988-1990: Guest lecturer on concepts and practices of transfer of technology for small and
medium enterprise development in developing countries at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
in The Hague, The Netherlands.