Clear visuals for complex development work
Your project has achieved a lot, but struggling to explain it clearly?
I’m here to transform your terms of reference into a tale worth telling!
Having managed development projects across Africa, I know why great work gets overlooked: stale reports, clunky visuals, and uninspiring texts. Your projects deserve better, but I’m guessing you are pressed for time.
No worries, I’m here to help! As a former project manager I can cut through the jargon and technical documents. Just send me your logframe, proposal, or annual report, and we’ll get the ball rolling on making your story shine!
Want to know more? Below is what I can help you with, based on some of my previous work, or just drop me an e-mail.
About me
My name is Felix. I’m originally from Belgium, and a proud father of three. I trained as an economist, but quickly realised that a career in finance or consultancy wasn’t for me. Instead, I started out as a junior project manager for the Belgian Development Cooperation in South Africa. After a brief stint at the European Commission’s development department in Brussels, I found myself managing development projects for a mid-sized Dutch NGO based in The Hague.
Over the years, I worked across Benin, Burundi, DR Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania and South Africa, on topics ranging from local governance and water management to urbanisation, land reform, and family planning.
Let’s work together
I know what its like to be a project manager. As mentioned, I used to be one. I also know how tight your timelines are. My aim is to make your life easier and help you out as quickly as possible, with as little back and forth as needed.
Need a theory of change visualised? Send it over, I’m fluent in development jargon and can get straight to work. Starting a new project and need a flyer for next month’s launch event? Share the project proposal, and I’ll get back to you with a good looking 2 pager!
If any of this resonates, feel free to reach out. Send me an email, tell me what you’re working on, and we’ll see together how I can help make your story clearer and easier to share.
How I got into design
Design entered my life almost by accident. I was working with local governments in Eastern Congo, but missed a decent map of our intervention area. Out of sheer necessity, I opened design software for the first time to draw the map myself.
That small map quickly snowballed. One visual led to another, and before long, I found myself increasingly drawn to design.
Around that time, I married someone substantially smarter than me, and happily agreed to follow her career rather than insist on my own. Her work took our young family to Tanzania and later to Vietnam. In Tanzania, I initially worked as a project director on a German local taxation project, but gradually shifted towards design work. Slowly but surely, that side of my work grew. Looking back, I’m proud of the many projects I’ve helped visualise their achievements and tell their stories more clearly.