Experience

World Food Programme

• Italy
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Conflict and Peace Advisor

  • Jan 2020 - Present

  Working in an emerging, committed, small team to mainstream Conflict Sensitivity in WFP programming and better understand/support WFP's contribution to Peace Building.



Self-employed

• International development manager - Empowerment and Accountability expert

  • Sep 2019 - Jan 2020



CARE International UK

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Head of Inclusive Governance

  • Jul 2015 - Aug 2018

  Heading a global team of 8 staff in charge of the mainstreaming of Inclusive Governance (empowerment and accountability) across CARE development and humanitarian programming. - Leading programmatic work: support to CARE country offices and global programmes to effectively mainstreaming IG. Support was provided with power and conflict analysis, designing transformative theories of change, training, developing technical tools, doing MEL and research. - Business and Team Management: Manage a high performing global team based in the UK and abroad (Africa and Asia). Staff operate as internal consultants, providing support (60% paid by country offices) on a range of operating areas. -Business Development: work with fundraising teams in different countries to analyse donors’ strategies (including DFID, USAID, EU, UNPBF, World Bank) and maximise funding opportunities, to develop high quality winning proposals, and overall to increase and diversify the governance portfolio across the confederation.- Promoting MEAL and research: supervised the establishment of an Inclusive Governance M&E framework, the generation of annual “governance impact reports”, based on data collected against a set of global IG indicators(measuring programmatic impact) and IG markers (measuring the extent and quality of IG mainstreaming). - Representation and relationship management: I led the positioning of CARE IG work in key national and international spaces. I have a solid network in the donors, academic and NGOs worlds. I have been presenting CARE in relevant events, contributing to panels in the UK and internationally (including DFID, UN and WB).

• Governance Team Leader

  • Nov 2012 - Jun 2015

• Inclusive Governance Senior Advisor

  • Jul 2011 - Nov 2012

  led the development, validation and roll-out of the CARE Governance Programme Framework (GPF), the Theory of Change at the core of CARE’s global governance work - in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies - Sussex University; • design and validate CARE governance context analysis guidance note, building on existing PEA literature and practices.• provide technical assistance to governance projects in Pakistan, Egypt and Peru, supporting with training, proposal design, context analysis and TA on social monitoring and advocacy. • manage a research on the impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on women and girls in three countries in Latin America (Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia). The research was led by UCL and an article was submitted and eventually published by the Gender and Development Journal in 2012.



CARE International UK

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Latina America Governance Advisor

  • Jan 2006 - Sep 2009

  -I provided technical assistance to the design and implementation of projects aimed at improving the participation of indigenous women in local institutions (Guatemala and El Salvador); the transparency and accountability of local governments (Ecuador); the participation of youth to the delivery of better education services and advocacy around GBV (Bolivia); the setting up of early working systems in conflict-affected areas (Bolivia); and the participation and oversight of women and girls to the delivery of maternal health services (Peru). I was in charge of training and building capacities of CARE staff and partners; the M&E and collecting learning; the supervision of the reporting to donors.- In collaboration with the Institute of Development Study (Sussex University), I led a 6-month governance action research initiative in Peru, involving indigenous women and girls as researchers. - I represented CARE in the DFID LAC PPA group and I chaired the LAC Bond Group.

• Latin America Senior Programme Officer

  • Jan 2006 - Sep 2009

  Deputising for the Regional Manager, manage the LAC portfolio and the team of advisors (International Financial Institutions Advisor, based in Peru; Private Sector Partnership Advisor, based in Brazil; Civil Society and Policy Officer, based in London). The portfolio included civil society capacity building, HIV and AIDS prevention, Private Sector Engagement, funded through DFID Programme Partnership Agreement (PPA) and EC. Portfolio development, supporting CARE COs to design and submit new proposals, and doing proposal positioning and donor engagement.



Fundar Centro de Análisis e Investigación

• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Researcher

  • Aug 2005 - Jan 2006

  Lead on a piece of research looking at the impact of gender budget monitoring on the allocation of public funds designated to maternal health programmes, in the state of Chiapas, Mexico; and a piece of research on the impact of CS advocacy on a case of public funds’ diversion. https://www.right2info.org/resources/publications/el-caso-provida-deudas-pendientes



Italian Red Cross

• Italy
• International Affairs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of regional office

  • Jun 2003 - Jul 2004

• Country Representative

  • Jun 2001 - Jun 2003

• Program Manager

  • Nov 2000 - Jun 2001