Context functions as a network organisation with a core team of two senior consultants and a group of associate consultants who team up for specific assignments. Context uses business principles to promote social change in order to combat poverty, resist exclusion and counter violation of human rights. Do get in touch!
Fons is the founder of Context, international cooperation and has a long track record as social entrepreneur, development practitioner and as researcher, lecturer, trainer and process facilitator. His thematic areas of expertise include social entrepreneurship, capacity development and organisational learning. For over three decades he has commuted between practice, policy and the academic community.
At the beginning of his career Fons worked for two institutes for development education (COS Den Bosch and Nijmegen); he has worked for many years as a lecturer and researcher at the Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen (CIDIN), Radboud University of Nijmegen; he was the first course director of the Advanced Masters in International Development at the CIDIN; he has been a manager at two development organisations (ICCO and the Association PSO) before starting Context, international cooperation. He is also the co-founder and co-owner of Foresee Social entrepreneurs Pvt Ltd, Bangalore India.
Pol is a senior consultant, with background in development economics. He also is business partner in Context, international cooperation. His key role in Context is to connect concepts and strategies to the practice of development economies and programmes with special focus on social business development and social & economic impact assessment.
Pol is a development economist with an academic background in agricultural sciences (Master) and quantitative economics (MBA). He has a long and varied experience within different institutional environments, e.g. multilateral (UN) agency, academic institution, INGDO and social enterprises. His area of specialisation is the social-economic perspective in rural development. He has extensive hands-on experience in complex processes underlying policy and programme development, notably in the fields of social and economic impact assessment, social return on investment, Value for Money, financial and economic feasibility analysis, organisational learning, quality management, and in programme monitoring & evaluation. In recent times he has been strongly engaged in the development of social business concepts both at conceptual level as in the practice of social business planning and management.