Henry Mateus Alfonso

Henry Mateus Alfonso is a senior organizational strengthening analyst. He has 35 years of experience in social development, of which 20 have been with various USAID programs. Henry has extensive experience in organizational strengthening processes and citizen participation with a focus on population issues (Afro Colombians and Indigenous peoples), local and regional development, social control strategies for public management, and alliances between public and private sectors. He is skilled in facilitating pedagogical processes with the design of methodological tools for processes of organizational strengthening and citizen control. Henry has led the development of methodologies used by USAID Colombia like the ICOE (Index of Ethnic Organizational Capacities), the Guide “Let’s do Citizen Control”, and recently, the adaptation of the organizational performance index manual OPI. He has a business administration degree from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and holds a master’s degree in planning and administration in regional development from the Universidad de los Andes.