Freelancer for improved sustainable environmental management to implement green economy in Belgium, Europe and on international aid consultancy.

• to conduct project design and evaluation, strategic consulting, technical assistance and training.


• to produce information, dedicated research for pilot eco-projects and capacity building.


• to foster with methodology result-oriented decision-making with public and private actors.


• to provide assistance for sustainable development to local and institutional stakeholders through environmental breakthroughs.

For more information on EcoPilot’s Expertise and Services, Contact me.

Resume in Brief:

• Freelancer @ SudEpervier (1990-...), @ EcoPilot (2003- ...), independent expert for 3E, AESA-group, Agreco, Agrifor Consult, Nubian Voûte Association (AVN), BKP development reseach & consulting, CNRJ, CTMCCV, DAI Europe, EACI, Ecophys, Egis-EAU, EQO, European Commission, FAIRCOOP, GDA Sidi Amor, GOPA, Halcrow, IRCO, MWH-Global, Plastics Europe, Rossel Group, RTBF, Shake, TRAME, World Bank Group (list to be continued),


• Set up and coordination of the CAP 2020 cluster for low energy construction in Walloonia, 150 companies, 300 participants (2008-2009),


• Energy expert to Confederation construction, the Belgian builders trade union (2006-2007),


• EnerGîte 1st ecodesigned hollydays resorts (16-18 people) for green tourism in the Walloon region (2001- ...), Eco-cottages on a pedagogic farm (2017 -...),


• National expert seconded on environment & sustainable development at the European Commission (2001-2003),


• Founder and chair of COST E21 Forests and Kyoto Protocol, 260 researchers, 30 countries (1999-2003),


• delegate to the Earth Summit (Rio) and to United nation negotiations on sustainable development (UNCSD), climate change (UNFCCC), biodiversity (UNCBD), and the Millennium development goals (MDGs) (1992-2003),


• Active member of the national /federal council for sustainable development (CNDD-CFDD) (1997-2002),


• Research and education at Gembloux university (1982-2003).

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Do you have any idea, question or project for your sustainable development, to pave the way to eco-innovation, environmental technologies and to deploy green economy in your business?
EcoPilot:

• Carries out project setting up, management and evaluation of eco pilot projects with international donors and development agencies.


• Identifies operational strategic orientations and networks actors and resources.


• Delivers technical assistance to enhance relevance, to define the intervention logic, to assess the degree of achievement of objectives, to evaluate the efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability of the results.


• Produces information and dedicated research through documented, objective, independent, credible and useful analysis.


• Provides advice and training.


• Works equally in French or in English, alone, in teams and networks, on programs, projects and pilot actions which imply a shared understanding and shared vision, in multicultural contexts, with international actors, public bodies, education, NGOs, civil society and economic operators.

EnerGite (Chisogne, Belgium). Ecoprojet of pilot hollydays lets on the farm, led in family with my wife, Nathaly Pereaux. It involves rehabilitating and revitalizing old farm buildings dating back to 1751, which have fallen into ruin and abandoned. In 2001, the buildings were completely restored and converted into three low-energy holiday cottages (<60 kWatt/m2). EnerGîteWinner of three construction prizes: Environmental contest in the construction of the Confédération construction wallonne (2007), the Energy awards (2006) and Piment best-in-class energy efficient building of the Walloon region (2002). After fifteen years of operation of these country cottages open to green ecotourism in the Ardenne, EnerGite is now a project of holiday cottages in a pedagogic pilot farm for an introduction to the environment, conservation of biological diversity, small livestock local breeds, agriculture, small farm machinery, organic gardening at guests’ disposal, wastewater treatment and small-scale upgrading as well as low-energy construction.

GDA-Sidi Amor (Borj Touil, Raoued, Governorate of Ariana, Tunisia). I met the couple Lela Amel Ben Romdhane and Dr Ben Miled, social entrepreneurs and inspirers of the GDA Sidi Amor on the eighth day of my first mission in Tunisia on August 24th 2010. The baraka one evening of Ramadan! My first visit was to discuss around eco-building that brought me to the Tunisian Ministry of Equipment. By deepening the contacts over time, I made small contributions in response to the dynamism of their remarkable projects in terms of harmony, integration and complementarity, e.g. Ecovillage projects of handcraft trade and art trade opened on ecotourism, seminars and workshops on rammed-earth, adobe and compressed-earth mud bricks and recently an international wastewater treatment project, donated by the World Bank to the GDA, through its tutelary authorities.
GDA Sidi Amor is an integrated pole of socio-economic sustainable local development in th suburb of Tunis based on the rehabilitation, improvement and valorization of all local natural resources, the personal and professional development of local youth and the development of economic activities through an ecocenter of arts and crafts. An endless glare, an inexhaustible source of inspiration and very rich human encounters that honor me with too few solicitations of services. Following the very first meeting at the GDA Sidi Amor with Ahmed, Anas, Haider, Hedi, Jaber, Kadhem, Medsalah, Mohamed Fadel, Moustapha, Nour, Selmène, Sofiene, Youssef, I have frequent thoughts for Borj Touilians.

Association la Voûte Nubienne After meeting Mathieu Hardy in Tunis, architect volunteer of the Nubian Vault (VN) during a networking seminar for the implementation of locally available materials in the ecoconstruction in the Mediterranean hosted by GDA Sidi Amor in 2012, I contributed for AVN to the drafting of a grant application to the French development agency (AFD) entitled Development of a market for low carbon and climate-friendly buildings in Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal. These were for me very beautiful human encounters in Ganges (France) and a small contribution to a pilot project with a very high impact factor that makes sense.
In 2000, after two years technical research at Boromo in Burkina Faso, a French mason Thomas Granier and a Burkinabe farmer, Séri Youlou, founded the Association la voûte nubienne (AVN). AVN’s mission is to quickly provide access to a suitable architecture for the greatest possible number of beneficiaries at affordable cost. AVN’s working hypothesis is that ‘only an adapted and validated constructive technique, mastered by tradespeople, in markets initiated by so-called extension workers/key-persons, gives access to locally recognized sustainable architecture in the short-term and to the greatest number of beneficiaries’.
In 2012, over its first ten years of its existence, AVN allowed the construction of more than 1,500 Nubian Vaults, 25 m² for an average price equivalent to 500 € each, ie more than 10 km of buildings, carried out by more than 200 masons on 533 sites, for 12,000 beneficiaries. At that time, the average annual growth rate of the Nubian Vault market was above 30%. The savings of greenhouse gases (GHG) were over 2,600 tons eq.CO2 and the local money savings were estimated at more than 750,000 €. Through the AFD project, AVN aimed to deploy its program on a large scale with the construction of 5,000 vaults in 3 years. These goals have been met and AVN is still ‘collecting’ international awards in social entrepreneurship.

Djiboutian Energy Management Agency Djibouti is planning and preparing a very ambitious socio-economic development, supported by large capital inflows, with a view to positioning itself as a commercial and logistical hub in East Africa. Djibouti ‘sets the first milestones for the promotion of energy efficiency’, by setting up in 2013 the Djiboutian Agency for Energy Management (ADME).
ADME is keen to raise its visibility by preparing operational decrees and to have the relevant tools to accomplish the energy control mission assigned to it, in the first instance, reducing the energy bills of public buildings. A major and demanding project of MWH-Global within the framework of the EU’s Global climate change alliance (GCCA) in Djibouti, which aimed to evaluate energy efficiency of buildings, identify pathways, in the design and construction of a pilot bioclimatic construction, to become a demonstration center for treated- wastewater recovery for market gardening in a tropical desert climate (BWh by Köppen & Geiger).

Fair Milk Fair Farm is an integrated, coherent information, communication and promotion campaign that targets 80 million touch points in three years :
*to support the work of family and farmer farms, guarantee a fair income for producers, raise awareness of the high milk quality standards in the EU and thus ensure animal welfare, protect the environment and respect nature,
*to consolidate production and consumption of fair milk products in Belgium,
*to raise awareness, promote, inform and engage the consumer on fair milk and fair agricultural production.

Fair Milk Fair Farm is inspired by North-South fair trade and responds to a key issue of the EU’s agricultural policy: sufficient income for the food producer and affordable food to those who buy it. The aim here is to consolidate an existing within EU North-North economic exchange mechanism set up by FairCoop in Belgium, bringing together breeders and consumers.

Last update 30 August 2018