Ross Kidd
Ross has 40 years of experience as a specialist in capacity development and training. His areas of expertise include community education and development, design of behavioural change strategies, project planning and management, production of training materials and manuals, research and evaluation. He has thematic expertise in rural water supply, hygiene and sanitation, health and HIV/AIDS education, local government and NGO capacity development and gender. Ross is a specialist in the planning of capacity building and training systems, training of trainers, use of participatory methods (e.g. PRA, CLTS, PHAST), design of community management strategies and design of ‘user friendly’ training materials and operational manuals. He has run training of trainers workshops for development workers in more than 25 countries and produced over 80 training and operational manuals.
In rural WASH Ross has consulted extensively in Africa and Asia. In the 90s he worked as a consultant on the first two World Bank funded community water and sanitation projects – in Ghana and Sri Lanka.