Peter Hoffman is a seasoned international development consultant with a career that includes 17 years overseas work experience with CIDA and CUSO. He retired from CIDA in 2000 after postings in Vietnam, India, and the Caribbean and assignments on the China and India program desks. Peter holds an M.Ed. from the University of Ottawa and a B.A. from Carleton. He joined GeoSpatial/SALASAN in 2001.
Mr. Hoffman's current work load with SALASAN includes directing a $10 million human rights capacity development project in Southeast Asia as well as monitoring a large e-governance project in the Philippines and a long-term judicial reform project in Vietnam. In the recent past, his assignments with SALASAN have included evaluating two CIDA-funded girls education projects in Afghanistan and a governance reform support program in Indonesia, providing RBM training to the staffs of to pan-African NGOs working in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention and food security and acting as the RBM/capacity development advisor to two legal reform projects in China, one with the Supreme Peoples' Procuratorate and one with collection of university-based think thanks. Earlier in his career with SALASAN, Mr. Hoffman implemented long-term CIDA contracts to monitor devolution and food security projects in Ghana and a cluster of decentralization-related projects in Pakistan and short-term CIDA contracts to evaluate and/or plan a number of governance related projects in Afghanistan.
Mr. Hoffman's areas of expertise include results based management, monitoring and evaluation and capacity development. Mostly he has applied this skill set in the general area of good governance and more specifically in the areas of legal and judicial reform, human rights and decentralization.
In his earlier career with CIDA, Mr. Hoffman was amongst other things the Agency's Head of Aid in Vietnam and Canada's Alternate Director to the Caribbean Development Bank.