Christoph Buchberger

Advisor

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

About

Methods: change management, participatory methods, strategy development, planning and management of projects, workshop design and moderation, event organization, monitoring and evaluation, Do-No-Harm-Approach, empirical social research, professional writing Topics: extractive industries governance, organisational development, Good Governance, processes of democratization, decentralization and local governance, community-based natural resource management

Experience

  • Negotiation Support Advisor at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
    Sep 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

    Advisor at CONNEX Support Unit, https://www.connex-unit.org

  • Parliamentary Advisor at Grüne Fraktion Bayern
    Oct 2019 - Sep 2022 · 3 yrs

    Topics: - Europe - Sustainable Development - Citizen's concerns regarding asylum and migration

  • Lead Consultant at CGI
    Feb 2019 - Jul 2019 · 6 mos

    - Organizational Development & Change Management - Digitalization and New Work in the context of public administration

  • Advisor at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
    Sep 2015 - Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    German Cooperation programme "Regional Resource Governance in Fragile States of West Africa", implemented by GIZ. Responsible for following main topics: • Organisational development of Ministry of Lands, Mines, and Energy, Liberia • Improving compliance monitoring of large-scale mining contracts & support to contract negotiations • Strengthening citizen participation in mining areas & improved citizen – company relationships • Increasing transparency in Liberia’s extractive sector / EITI in Liberia Tasks: • Direct advice to political decision makers and employees in Government and civil society • project management: planning, implementation, and monitoring • moderating workshops, coaching & training • supervising external consultants

  • Junior Advisor at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
    Feb 2015 - Jul 2015 · 6 mos

    Junior Advisor to the Personal Representative of the German Chancellor for Africa at the Geman Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) on the G7 CONNEX Initiative CONNEX is an international initiative by the G7 states to support low income countries in complex commercial contract negotiations in mining Tasks: • Providing direct policy advice to the Personal Representative of the German Chancellor for Africa, e.g. through concept notes and discussion papers • Comparative analysis of codes of conduct for advisory services; revision of the G7 CONNEX Code of Conduct for consultants to commercial contract negotiations • Supporting the BMZ’s role in multi stakeholder consultations und G7 consultative group meetings (speeches, discussion points, minutes, etc.)