{"id":414,"date":"2025-10-02T03:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/hubers-frank\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:45:07","slug":"hubers-frank","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/hubers-frank\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubers Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFrank Hubers<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"author_addthis\">\n<div class=\"addthis\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"Hubers Frank\">\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"object-left\">\n<div class=\"img border\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Frank writes for The Broker&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Treehuggers Treadmill&#8217;<\/a> blog. He has an educational background in cultural anthropology and international development. Specialized in identity processes among indigenous groups in Peru and Guatemala, and having travelled through Africa many times, one can sincerely call him a fully fledged tree hugger. For over two years now he is working for Oxfam Novib, a Netherlands based development organization. Working as a monitoring and evaluation advisor his main challenge is measuring the effectiveness of development projects and to look at ways to improve these. <\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">With his 27 years of age Frank is still a novice within the World of International Development. Not fully integrated yet, he still has to learn the culture and even the language of this world that still confuses him everyday. Why do they use over a dozen of words for \u201cparticipation\u201d while they still lack the capacity to make people participate? Talking about capacity: how does one \u201cbuild\u201d that, and when is your capacity fully built? And why do human rights organizations nowadays work on international development and development organizations on climate change? <\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Frank has many questions\u2026 and will be seeking for answers<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/extension\/broker\/design\/broker\/images\/no-image.png\" alt=\"Learning or denying?\"><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">Learning or denying?<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/hubers-frank\/\">Frank Hubers<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t23 March 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tAbout two weeks ago, I went to a seminar in Wageningen about methodologies for impact evaluation. Impact studies have held my specific attention since I started working in the development sector. The interesting thing about impact studies is that&#8230;\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">read more<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/extension\/broker\/design\/broker\/images\/no-image.png\" alt=\"The treadmill\u2026\"><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">The treadmill\u2026<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/hubers-frank\/\">Frank Hubers<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t12 March 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tOnce upon a time, a long time ago in the western world, people thought that development work was a good thing. Triggered by dramatised commercials on tv, showing African children covered with flies and dying from hunger, people felt that poverty i&#8230;\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">read more<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"navigator\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Hubers Frank writes for The Broker&#8217;s &#8216;Treehuggers Treadmill&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template_4.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-414","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hubers Frank \/ Authors - The Broker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Frank writes for The Broker&#039;s &#039;Treehuggers Treadmill&#039; blog. 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