Erik Bryld

Erik Bryld is managing director at Tana Copenhagen. He has 25 years of experience working with statebuilding, resilience and the pace-humanitarian-development nexus in Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Asia. He is in particular strong in identification, design, research and monitoring and evaluation (MEAL). Erik has undertaken more than 100 assignments and has been a team leader on more than 60 of them. He has undertaken more than 35 design, identification and formulation assignments, 35 reviews, evaluations and assessments, and multiple studies and analyses.

Major expertise areas include:

• Stabilisation and resilience. Erik has undertaken resilience, political-economy and conflict analyses at the local and national levels and assessed the impact of development programmes on conflict. Assignments have included identification, formulation, and evaluations of donor strategies, resilience programmes, refugee and IDP related interventions, and conflict resolution processes. He has also been a team leader on long-term Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) assignments. Analyses undertaken have included issues of marginalisation, migration, internal displacement, gender equality, women’s empowerment and ethnicity. Erik has undertaken multiple trainings related to working in fragile states, including HEAT.
• Statebuilding. Erik has over the years worked extensively with statebuilding from human rights and democracy to decentralisation, anti-corruption and public sector reform. He has been engaged in the identification, formulation and evaluation of large as well as smaller scale statebuilding, human rights, justice, democratisation, as well as decentralisation programmes, focusing on rights holders as well as duty bearers. He has experience in assessing the capacity of institutions at local and national level.