Curriculum Vitae Maeva Aimée Bonjour

Personal details

Date & place of birth 3rd of April 1982; Cavaillon, France Nationality Dutch, French, Swiss Email address [email protected] Address Arthur van Schendelstraat 696, 3511 MJ Utrecht

Core competences

- Project management: straightforward, result oriented and analytical. - Capacity building and intervention development: creative facilitation of discussions on taboo or sensitive topics, stimulating empowerment and participation. - Interpersonal skills: honest, sensitive to different cultures and contexts, flexible.

Employment record

2016 – now Senior Technical Advisor (mainly focused on Francophone ), Rutgers, Utrecht, - Technical SRHR support for the international programmes in all phases of the project management cycle (development, implementation, evaluation). - Trainer on SRHR, comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), gender, meaningful youth participation - Development and contextualization of CSE materials and interventions - Development of participatory exercises and training programs on SRHR

2012 - 2016 Sexual Health Advisor, GGD Gelderland-Midden, Arnhem, Netherlands - Agenda setting and providing policy advice regarding sexual health, both internal within GGD as towards local government and regional partners. - activate, advise and train professionals who work with young people (school staff, social worker, youth care). - develop, start-up and implement sexual health interventions. - Create and maintain networks and regional collaboration. - Project leader of the GGD’s Sense programme and Les(s) & More project - Chair of the Sexual Health Promotion Group of the five GGDs from East Netherlands and the Arnhem sexual health partnership. - online sexology counsellor at www.vrijfijn.nl.

2011 - 2012 Consultant, ETC Foundation, Leusden, Netherlands. - Project management: NICHE TZA 001 project ‘Strengthening privately run pre- service health training institutions for enhanced enrolment and quality of health workers in ’. - Context analyses and Strategy & Capacity Development on SRHR: short and medium term consultancies.

2011 Alliance Officer, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Alliance, Rutgers WPF/Simavi/AMREF//Choice, Netherlands. - author of governance and policy documents. - developer of internal communication and archiving system. - secretary of steering committee.

2008 - 2010 Programme coordinator, Rutgers Nisso Groep/Youth Incentives, Utrecht, Netherlands. - Country coordinator of the programme in Mali and Youth Advisory Group. - Organization of international conferences and study tours on SRHR. - author of participatory toolkit on abortion, sexual diversity and sexual violence. - trainer in among others; monitoring, evaluation & research; advocacy; sexual rights and gender; sexual diversity, abortion and sexual violence; communication on sexuality; interactive facilitation skills.

2007 - 2008 Technical advisor Health Promotion, Community Health Department, Mutare, Zimbabwe. Secondment by ICCO and PSO. - Capacity building on policy development, youth participation, use of interactive facilitation techniques to address SRHR, proposal writing and alliance building.

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2014 NVVS Sexual Health Consultant, RINO Groep Utrecht, Netherlands. Cum laude.

2007 MSc Biomedical Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands. Major in Epidemiology, minor in International Public Health.

2004 BSc Biomedical Sciences, University of Utrecht, Netherlands.

Internships

2013 Online sexological counselling, vrijfijn.nl, Sense Noord, Groningen, Netherlands. Short-term online counselling to young people with sexological problems such as difference in desire, lack of desire for sex, pain during intercourse, problems with erection and orgasm.

2012 Sexcounseling, GGD Rotterdam-Rijnmond, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Assisting counselling sessions by NVVS sexologist

2006 - 2007 Research internship, Dutch Royal Tropical Institute, , Netherlands. Including 5 months of data collection at a STI/HIV clinic in Valencia, Venezuela. See publications.

2005 Policy internship, World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland. literature study and production of a paper summarizing research findings and proposing appropriate policy recommendations, titled: "Access to Curative and Preventive Occupational Health Services for the Informal Economy, a Literature Study", unpublished.

Courses

2015 Rutgers WPF: Make a Move. Two-day training.

2013 Movisie: Het Vlaggensysteem. Three-day training-of-trainers, aimed at training professionals in the use of the “Flag System” to estimate and adequately react to sexual behaviour of children and young people.

2012 ABVAKABO/FNV: Professional communication. Three-day training on communication techniques and professional leadership.

2011 Critical Mass: Training of trainers. Three-day training on experimental learning techniques, personal learning styles and facilitation skills.

2011 Critical Mass: ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ and interactive theatre. Nine workshops on using interactive theatre to address discrimination and social conflict.

2010 PSO: Coaching at distance. Three-session training on coaching skills, intercultural communication and strategies for long distance coaching.

2010 IFMSA Utrecht: ‘Het Voorspel’. Three-day training on interactive sexuality education methodologies for secondary schools.

2009 - 2010 Rutgers Nisso Groep: various trainings. Girls’ Talk, 2-day training on a group counselling programme for girls; Boys & Girls & Sex, workshop on interactive sexuality education for 12 to 16 year-olds; (Met) Jongeren in gesprek, one-day training on communication with/among young people on relationships and sexuality.

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2011 - 2013 Trainer/Facilitator, Critical Mass, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Main task: facilitation of workshops for young people and professionals during which participants are guided through participative exercises to experience and analyse the social processes leading up to conflict and are confronted with their own role in these processes.

2010 - 2012 Certified peer educator, International Federation of Medical Student Associations (IFMSA), Standing Committee on Reproductive Health and AIDS, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Main task: providing interactive sexuality education in Dutch secondary schools, using the ‘Het Voorspel’ methodologies.

2007 - 2012 Independent workshop facilitator, The Netherlands. Designing and facilitating interactive workshops on peer education; youth participation; HIV, sexuality and gender; and relationships, wishes and boundaries. Among others at secondary schools and MBOs in Kennemerland, youth groups in Utrecht and Amsterdam, and the UNOY Peace Builders’ African Conference in The Hague.

2004 Trainer, Reach Services, Calabar, . Reach Services is a local non- governmental organisation for youth development. Main tasks: - designing, organising and facilitating ICT trainings and interactive workshops, trainings and events on sexuality, HIV/AIDS and assertive communication; - establishing Reproductive Health Clubs in secondary schools.

Memberships

2011 - now Dutch Association for Sexology (NVVS), regular membership.

Publications and Awards

2012 Maeva Bonjour. Mission d’orientation/cartographie sur la santé et les droits sexuels et reproductifs au Burundi pour le Bureau de l’Ambassade des Pays- Bas à Bujumbura, 18 Mars – 1 Avril 2012. ETC Crystal, April 2012. 2010 Maeva Bonjour. Evénement Régional Africain Francophone : Les zones grises de la santé et des droits sexuels et reproductifs, 25-29 juillet 2010, Bamako, Mali. Rutgers Nisso Groep/IPPF, September 2010. 2010 Anny Peters, Maeva Bonjour and Teun Visser. Toolkit for Young People in the Youth Incentives Programme, How to Start a Discussion on Sexual Diversity, Sexual- and Gender-Based Violence and Safe Abortion? Youth Incentives - Rutgers Nisso Groep, April 2010. 2009 Henri van den Idsert and Maeva Bonjour. Sexual Diversity, a leaflet by Youth Incentives - Rutgers Nisso Groep, December 2009. 2008 Bonjour MA, Montagne M, Zambrano M, Molina G, Lippuner C, Wadskier FG, Castrillo M, Incani RN, Tami A. Determinants of late disease-stage presentation at diagnosis of HIV infection in Venezuela: a case-case comparison, AIDS Research & Therapy 2008,5:6. 2007 Mosteller Prize of Epidemiology 2006-2007 from the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and HTA of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre.

Language skills

Dutch: mother tongue French: fluent (“father tongue”) English: fluent Spanish: intermediate level

Last updated:11 February 2019

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