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Associate Consultants (Creative, Technical and DME)
If you want to work with any of RPB's associate creative or technical consultants contact us at: contact@radioforpeacebuilding.co.uk
1. Senior Creative Consultants
 Lucy Hannah is a producer, trainer and
consultant who specialises in drama for social change. She's an
ex-BBC Radio Drama producer whose extensive media experience
combined
with her innovative workshop skills has enabled her to lead and
establish
successful and sustainable radio/audio projects both in the UK and in
areas of
conflict and post-conflict around the world. Recent projects include: Old
City, New Dreams in Afghanistan (BBC World Service Trust), Darfur
Lifeline project in Sudan (BBC WST), Sorgame Endralaalum in
Sri
Lanka (Internews) and Out Of The Gate in the
UK.
Catherine Joppart has worked in Africa and the Middle East as a trainer and project
manager in media (radio, TV and new media) for peacebuilding. She has
designed and delivered numerous successful training to radio
journalists in Burundi, Madagascar, Niger, the Republic of Congo
and the Palestinian territories. She currently works as a
consultant for Equal Access in Niger on the production of two radio
programmes aiming at social and behaviour change. She was also the
coordinator of the Radio for Peacebuilding Africa website, a Search
for Common Ground project, and has worked as a producer for AP
Television News in London. She holds a BA in International Relations,
and an MA in Media and Communications from SOAS. She is fluent in
French and English, and also speaks German and Spanish.
Melchiade
Ngendabanyikwa is a dramatist, trainer and journalist, with long experience in writing radio soaps, television scenarios, audio-visual spots, and in the production of educational dramas. He believes that drama is an important and essential tool for communication, sensibilisation, education and reconciliation through behaviour change everywhere in the world. He was educated in Burundi, and speaks French, Kirundi, Kinyarwanda and Swahili fluently, as well as good English and Swedish.
 Louise Williams is a radio journalist and trainer specialising in human rights and post-conflict reporting. She trained in news, working as a presenter for BBC World Service in London, going on to make many radio series and documentaries in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa. She teaches journalists in her native Ireland as well as working for the United Nations in communications and training, around the world. Louise works in both French and English.
2. Senior Technical Consultants
 Marcel Booij is specialised in developing aid packages for the delivery and/or upgrade of radio-television and music studios and related infrastructure. He organises and manages the supply, installation, system integration, services and total solutions in audio, video, multimedia and telecommunications. From 1988-1995 he worked as a sound engineer for Radio Netherlands International, and from 2006 was their worldwide technical adviser. He has also run his own company, and is currently Project and Sales manager to Broadcast Facilities Nederland BV.
 Pawan Prakash Upreti is a radio professional and an IT consultant with technical expertise in radio and television broadcasting. He has designed and conducted training programmes for hundreds of technicians and media managers on radio and television broadcasting, digital audio editing, digital storytelling, community multimedia centre management and digital video production. He has acted as technical adviser to a number of international organisations, and in 2009 conducted the first ever national FM radio signal mapping and technical assessment of Chad and Niger for a USAID funded regional project in the Sahel.
 Lionel Petit is an audio engineer specialised in radio and television techniques. He started work with the Belgian national radio and TV station in 1992, after he graduated from the Institut des Arts de Diffusion in Belgium. For the past ten years he has concentrated mainly on radio training, and the design, installation and maintenance of radio equipment around the world, from Burundi to Angola, and from DRC to Sierra Leone. Most of his work is for NGO, humanitarian and development radio projects. His first language is French, and he speaks Dutch, English and Spanish fluently.
3. Senior DME Consultant
 Tejendra Pherali comes from a
sociology background and also has an MEd in Research
Methodology from the University of Sydney, Australia. He currently works at Liverpool John Moores University, UK as Senior Lecturer in
Education Studies and Sociology. He'salso involved in researching the impact of the armed conflict on school education in
Nepal. He has previously worked as DME coordinator for Search for Common Ground Nepal, where the job ranged from developing peacebuilding
indicators, to designing and implementing a monitoring system for the
national level youth programme which used media as a peacebuilding
tool. He has also conducted a baseline study examining the role of youth
in peacebuilding and community decision-making in Nepal, which formed
the basis for one of the most popular radio soap operas on the Nepali
radio. He has carried out evaluations of a range of projects mostly involving radio for peacebuilding.
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