Nancy Ruth Bergau

JANUARY 2023 Ms. Bergau, a seasoned communications and capacity building specialist, has over 3 decades of extensive, hands-on experience researching, developing, managing and evaluating comprehensive strategies, media, and messages for diverse community development, education, health, environment, governance, and justice projects (USAID, ADB, Ausaid / DFAT, CIDA, EU, GTZ, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank, Peace Corps and local and international NGOs) in the Asia Pacific region including Indonesia, Timor Leste, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, and PNG plus, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and Egypt. In addition to working with experts, government, and NGO counterparts at national through community levels to plan, implement and assess project information, outreach, promotion, behavior change, capacity building and institutional development, Ms. Bergau has built local communications, training, and technical capabilities on-the-job plus, developed training and support media integrated and coordinated with post- training support and project implementation. She worked with multiple stakeholders and facilitated their cooperation to introduce new approaches, techniques, procedures, and skills to improve performance, services, program integration, and policy implementation. She has also guided and supported institutional and services' expansion, reform and reconstruction in underdeveloped, conflict, and post-disaster situations. Ms. Bergau specializes in probing beyond surface appearances to core issues and dynamics, and familiar alternatives. She creates unique communications and capacity building solutions linked to and integrated with project goals plus, local priorities, cultures, conditions and opportunities. She aims to integrate influencing stakeholders, enhancing meaning, and strengthening project impact and sustainability while building on and dovetailing with existing practices. This includes integrating key donor messaging and visibility, as well as critical issues like gender, social inclusion, community and individual empowerment, human rights, and responsible governance. For details refer to: Page CV for an overview of experience 2 Detailed CV for descriptions of projects, experience and outputs 7 Key Experience & Outputs descriptions & sample output thumbnails 25-46