Young Expert Programmes
Meike Siemonsma is a Nutrition Officer at UNICEF Pakistan, engaged in multi-sectoral coordination to enhance food systems for nutrition, through the Dutch Young Expert Programme and Nedworc Foundation since May 2024. Concurrently, Meike serves as an Independent Consultant for Nedworc Foundation and as a Young Expert Agrofood with Young Expert Programmes. Previous experience includes participation in the Unilever Future Leaders Programme as a Management Trainee in Research and Development, focusing on sustainability and nutrition, and a role as a volunteer for the World Food Programme examining food system interventions. Meike has also worked as a Research Intern at the Medical Research Council Unit in The Gambia and co-founded a sustainable fashion initiative with Enactus Wageningen. Educational qualifications encompass a Master's degree in Nutrition and Health from Wageningen University & Research, alongside other degrees in Foods, Nutrition, and related services, with distinctions from notable institutions.
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Young Expert Programmes
Professional coaching, capacity building training and work experience placement encouraging young professionals to start an international career in the water, agrofood and/or energy sectors. Young Expert Programmes, also known as YEP Programmes, aims to build expertise in the water, agrofood and renewable energy fields and create a young, refreshing, and inspiring international network. Whereas Dutch Young Experts are given the opportunity to gain relevant international experience through Dutch organisations operating in developing countries and emerging markets, non-Dutch Young Experts can acquire relevant work experience in an international environment with a Dutch organisation operating in their country. To achieve this, YEP Programmes offers financial support to Dutch organisations employing Young Experts for the realisation of international development aid and trade projects. By building sustainable relations and capacity as a network in the field of water, agrofood and renewable energy, together we contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals. YEP Programmes is an initiative of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs carried out by the Netherlands Water Partnership, the Netherlands Food Partnership, and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency.