During the last five years, Mrs. Dimitrova has worked as a consultant or project coordinator on multiple developmental projects in Bulgaria and The Netherlands in areas like: retraining of socially disadvantaged groups and continuous education; waste management; alternative water uses, community involvement and access to information; micro and small enterprises' start-up of socially disadvantaged citizens, etc.

Some of the organizations with which she has collaborated in the past or collaborates at present include: Foundation Waste, Gouda, the Netherlands, Municipality of Blagoevgrad and Varna, Foundation Institute for Ecological Modernization, BlueLink Information Network, American University in Bulgaria, Center for Study of Democracy, the Bulgarian Country Office of the Regional Environmental Center for CEE. close

Ilia Lazov has long-term experience within the administration of UN and UNDP Projects. During the last five years before joining the Rio Conventions Project he worked as an Administrative Assistant with the Job Opportunities through Business Support (JOBS) Project - a joint initiative of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and the United Nations Development Programme for support of small and family sized enterprises.

Mr. Lazov has successfully completed a number of trainings in the administration field and other areas such as: time and task management, successful management practices, project administration, web design, sustainable development, etc. close