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Bart de Steenhuijsen Piters
Head of Sustainable Economic Development
Director of KIT Development Policy & Practice a.i.
KIT Development Policy & Practice
Sustainable Economic Development
Phone: +31 (0)20568 8285
E-mail: b.d.steenhuijsen.piters@kit.nl
Bart de Steenhuijsen Piters, Ph.D., is an expert in the field of institutional development, innovation dynamics and sustainable business development. He has expertise in private and public sector reforms and policy development; stakeholder participation; demand-driven research; public-private partnerships and the design of sustainable production and consumption chains.
He has over twenty one years of experience, gained through long-term positions in Mali, Cameroon and Tanzania and numerous short-term assignments in Africa and Asia.
In his current function, Dr de Steenhuijsen Piters is leading KIT’s innovation programmes on local governance and natural resource management, rural service and innovation systems and sustainable markets and value chains. He was one of the initiators of the private Annona Sustainable Investment Fund.
Dr de Steenhuijsen Piters joined KIT in 1995. He is KIT’s Area leader for Sustainable Economic Development.
Publications
- Bulletin 394 - Facilitating pro-poor business (2011)
- Geen donaties, maar participaties (2010)
- Dealing with small scale producers (2010)
- Bulletin 390 - Farmers as shareholders (2009)
- The world of Artemisia in 44 questions (2006)
- Bulletin 370 - Rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa (2006)
- Developing a sustainable medicinal plant chain in India (2006)
- A Guide to demand-driven agricultural research (2003)
- Un guide pour la recherche agricole régie par la demande (2003)
- Islands in the ocean : the institutional deficiency of ecoregional programmes (2001)
Projects
- Business plan for sustainable palm oil production in Suriname
- Sustainable tuna fishing in Ghana
- Monitoring, Learning and Research Facility (MLRF) in KwaZulu-Natal
- Connecting people, markets and values
- Development of an IAR4D capacity building programme for ASARECA
- Capacity building for client oriented service delivery
- Towards an appropriate M&E framework in times of SWAp and Budget Support
- From policy to practice - the implications of the Dutch Africa Memorandum 2003
- Artemisia
- Feasibility study for sustainable production of artemisinin for Artemisia-based Combination Therapy (ACT)
- Client oriented research programme Tanzania
- Multi-stakeholder approach to agricultural diversification in India: the medicinal plant sector in Uttaranchal State
Contact
- +31 20 568 8711
- communication@kit.nl



