Experience

IUCN South America

• Ecuador
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Coordinador Regional de Proyecto

  • Feb 2023 - Present

  Coordinador América del Sur del Proyecto Regional: Avanzando hacia la conservación efectiva y gestión territorial con enfoque de derechos en América Latina Coordinador América del Sur del Proyecto Regional: Avanzando hacia la conservación efectiva y gestión territorial con enfoque de derechos en América Latina



Hivos

• Netherlands
• Non-profit Organizations
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Country Coordinator. All Eyes in the Amazon Program

  • Jan 2022 - Feb 2023

  - Oversees, in conjunction with the Program Manager and the Regional Technical Coordinator, the technical implementation and coherence of the whole activities of the AEA activities implemented in Ecuador, with attention to timelines, deliveries and quality assurance. - Oversees and/or implements procedures for the programs’ implementation in Ecuador, such as operational plans, indicators, accountability, monitoring, among others. - Closely monitors the Program implementation in Ecuador according to the established Program’s indicators, milestones and budget, and work plans and products of implementing partners; - Accompanies and provides technical support to local partners in Ecuador for the effective implementation of their workplans and fulfilment of their contract terms with Hivos. - Prepares internal and external communications updates and technical reports working in close collaboration with the AEA Communication and Monitoring and Evaluation Officers. - Provides key and frequent input to the AEA Communications Officer to ensure the proper communication and amplification of the development of the programs in Ecuador. Show less



Amazon Watch

• United States
• Political Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Ecuador Field Coordinator

  • Jan 2017 - Dec 2021

  - Design advocacy and enforceability strategies in favor of collective and environmental rights in coordination with our counterpart indigenous organizations on extractive projects that violate their rights. - Build and maintain positive relationships with partner organizations on the ground, including indigenous federations, indigenous communities, key leaders, NGOs, and individual allies in Ecuador. - Promote and carry out research on public policies and extractive projects that violate the collective rights of indigenous peoples that support both national and international legal actions. - Design a strategy for the implementation in Ecuador of the "Power To Protectors Project" (communication systems powered by solar energy) and the Amazon Defenders Fund (ADF) which mobilizes flexible, timely, and direct solidarity funds indigenous leaders, peoples, and organizations to advance the Amazonian Indigenous agenda of autonomy and self-determination. Show less



Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

• Ecuador
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 700 & Above Employee

• Investigador principal

  • Jun 2016 - Dec 2016

  Researcher for the PUCE Human Rights Center, in the project: “Territory, indigenous worldviews and rights in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Seeking a new paradigm for the realization of indigenous territorial rights and the rights of nature based on the study of the territorial management models of the Sarayaku People, the Sapara Nationality and the Shuar Arutam People.” Researcher for the PUCE Human Rights Center, in the project: “Territory, indigenous worldviews and rights in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Seeking a new paradigm for the realization of indigenous territorial rights and the rights of nature based on the study of the territorial management models of the Sarayaku People, the Sapara Nationality and the Shuar Arutam People.”



Fundación Pachamama

• Ecuador
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Coordinador del Programa de Plurinacionalidad

  • Jan 2008 - Dec 2016

  Establish articulation strategies between the different projects that make up the program that allow a coordinated execution of activities for the fulfillment of the programmatic objectives. Promote the exercise of the collective rights of indigenous nationalities and peoples through technical advice and the definition of joint strategies that influence public policies that affect their territories. This work will be in coordination with the indigenous organizations and their communities. Coordinator of the Project “Enforceability of Rights in relation to the Manta Manaus Multimodal Hub (Ecuador – Peru) financed by the Norwegian Rain Forest (2009 - 2011) whose main objective was to strengthen the capacities of indigenous organizations and communities and define advocacy actions against the government and the financiers of the megaproject. Coordinate with the Achuar Nationality - NAE, Shiwiar Nationality - NASHIE and Shuar Nation - NASHE the technical and legal strategy for territorial titling as well as the implementation of advocacy actions before the government agencies responsible for the adjudication. Methodological elaboration and systematization of zoning and territorial planning of several Achuar and Shuar communities in the provinces of Pastaza and Morona Santiago. Produce and disseminate cartographic information that shows the socio-environmental problems in the indigenous territories of the Amazon. Show less

• Investigador

  • Jan 2016 - Mar 2016

  Report "Situation of the Right to Freedom of Association of indigenous peoples in Ecuador”. Report presented to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights at the 157th session, on April 4, 2016. Information used to prepare the "shadow report" for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Ecuador.

• Investigador

  • May 2015 - Dec 2015

  Researcher for the Human Rights Center, in the project: “Analysis of Chinese investments in projects related to strategic sectors and their adaptation to the current constitutional framework”.

• Investigador

  • Sep 2015 - Oct 2015

  Free and Informed Prior Consultation in blocks 74 and 75”. Report presented before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the compliance hearing of the judgment of the “Caso Sarayaku vs. Ecuador” of December 3, 2016.



GIZ Ecuador

• Ecuador
• International Trade and Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultor

  • Oct 2014 - Nov 2014

  Technical, methodological and logistical coordinator for: - “Second Meeting of Amazonian Indigenous Women for the Defense of Life, Territory and Good Living” held in the city of Puyo. - Indigenous women and Public Policies Forum for the construction of the Plurinational State - Sumak Kawsay, held on Wednesday, November 26 - Hemicycle FLACSO Ecuador. - Indigenous youth workshop on “Identity, Territory and Self-management or Indigenous Territorial self-government”, held on November 21 and 22, in the city of Quito at the Hotel Mercure. Show less

• Investigador

  • May 2014 - Oct 2014

  Researcher for the Human Rights Center in the project "Legal protection of Good Living in the jurisprudence of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court". Researcher for the Human Rights Center in the project "Legal protection of Good Living in the jurisprudence of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court".



Centro para la Investigación Forestal Internacional (CIFOR)

• Consultor

  • Sep 2014 - Sep 2014

  Geographer in charge of developing (5) maps based on the mobilization of wood from three regions of Peru, Ucayali, Loreto and Madre de Dios. Geographer in charge of developing (5) maps based on the mobilization of wood from three regions of Peru, Ucayali, Loreto and Madre de Dios.



Centro de Derechos Económicos Sociales y Culturales (CDES)

• Asistente de la Unidad de Derechos Colectivos y Ambientales

  • Jan 2006 - Dec 2007

  - Apoyar al coordinador en el diseño, ejecución, seguimiento y evaluación de acciones de incidencia, exigibilidad, investigación y comunicación que contribuyan a la ejecución de los proyectos de la Unidad de Derechos Colectivos y Ambientales incorporando el enfoque de los Derechos Económicos Sociales y Culturales. - Apoyar al coordinador en el diseño, ejecución, seguimiento y evaluación de acciones de incidencia, exigibilidad, investigación y comunicación que contribuyan a la ejecución de los proyectos de la Unidad de Derechos Colectivos y Ambientales incorporando el enfoque de los Derechos Económicos Sociales y Culturales.