AIDA GUARDIOLA SANCHEZ

September 2017 -Actually

Consultant of the Climate Change Planning Unit - CCPU (Nairobi, Kenya)

UN-HABITAT- UNITED NATIONS HUMAN SETTLEMENTS PROGRAMME

• Review materials on the Climate Change Planning Unit (CCPU), and materials of other units from the perspective of climate change planning
• Assist in planning, preparing and implementing CCPU related events
• Assist in periodical internal planning and monitoring processes of CCPU
• Assist in planning and implementing CCPU related adaptation, mitigation and normative activities according to individual professional background, special interest, and unit priorities
• Climate Resilient City and Environmental Sustainability Course (South Korea, Saudi)
• Prepare articles for the CCCI semi-annual newsletter and other relevant publications by the Unit
• Research on contemporary topics related to Cities and Climate Change and sustainable urbanization
• Support the implementation of specific recommendations arising from CCCI’s mid-term evaluation
• Other tasks relevant to candidate and CCPU, as jointly determined by CCPU team

Development, Cooperation, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, Climate Change Assistance, Climate Integrate Project, Capacity Building

February 2017 – May 2018

Project manager

FUNDACIÓ MUSOL. Home-based.

• Planned and managed the project, offered support to farmers and indigenous organizations, governance, women empowerment
• Coordinated and maintained a network with local stakeholders
• Supervised the activities of the local NGO
• Managed the administrative and financial resources
• Prepared monthly financial and operating reports
• Identificated and formulated new projects

Governance and decentralization; Capacity Building, Development programme/project administration; gender equality and the advancement of women

February -May 2016

Agricultural Engineering specialty agricultural industries and food processing

SERVICE INDUSTRIES AND AGRICULTURAL MARKETING AT THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK, FISHERIES AND FOOD (GOVERNMENT OF CATALONIA)

• Implemented programs to improve the conditions of agri-food processing and marketing
• Managed grants in the field of promotion and marketing food industry with national and European funding
• Managed the recognition files of interprofessional agri-food organizations, producer organizations, producer groups and associations of producer organizations
• Carried out technical follow-up of the different agro-industrial sectors

Climate change mitigation and mechanisms for technology transfer; agricultural economics and agro-industry and agricultural marketing

January – April 2016

Consultant. Technical Assistance about Climate Change (Cochabamba, Bolivia)

ENGINEERING WITHOUT BORDERS BALEARIC ISLANDS

• Technical consultancy in the identification and formulation of the second phase Basin Integral Management Project
• Designed workshops for communities´ activities of the basin including forest, agronomy, water supply, waste and water management
• Trained and offered capacity building activities of activists from community based organizations
• Identified experts and stakeholders and engaged them in the project
• Coordinated and maintained relationships with local NGOs and public institutions of government
• Developed technical designs, working plans, budgets, monitoring and evaluation, and writing of technical and financial reports to donor

Climate Integrated Project, Climate technical assistance, Environment, Technical assistance ENV, Development, Cooperation

July -December 2015

Agricultural Engineer (Girona, Spain).

SECTION GRANTS MANAGEMENT AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT AT THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK, FISHERIES AND FOOD (GOVERNMENT OF CATALONIA)

• Carried out program controls to promote the development and integral improvement of rural areas, farms and livestock
• Coordinated the improvement plans for agricultural production and the size of farms, in accordance with the programs established by the Directorate General for Rural Development, in its territorial scope
• Conducted mandatory controls on subsidies co-financed with European funds
• Supported county offices in the areas of their competence
• Supported tramitation of the Single Agrarian Declaration in its territorial scope
• Advised technically public administrations, and guided population and producers to comply with the project legally and technically

Development programme/project administration; Agriculture and Rural Engineering

July 2012 -June 2015

Project manager and Country Representative (Cochabamba, Bolivia)

CATALAN ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERING WITHOUT BORDERS (ESF) and ENGINEERING WITHOUT BORDERS BALEARIC ISLANDS

Country representative and legalization of the Engineering Without Borders´s NGO, institutional visibility.

Managed multiple projects aimed at increasing access and quality to water in a rural area of Cochabamba:

• Creation of basic infrastructure for the distribution of drinking water,
• Director Plan Water Resource,
• Integrated Watershed Management (field of agroforestry, climate smart agriculture and agro-biodiversity) and Water Resource Protection.
• Meetings and coordination with stakeholders and the Municipality at a political level (city mayor, city counselors and local community leaders) and technical level.
• Coordinated of the team of 15 people and the resources associated to the project
• Assessed and monitored the activities implemented by local communities and the outcomes and impact of the project's activities
• Managed financial resources and produced monthly financial and operative reports
• Technical support to the local partner
• Developed new project proposals, budgets, log frames

Development, Cooperation, Water and Environmental engineering, Sustainable natural resources management and climate change adaptation and mitigation, Climate Integrated Project

December 2011- June 2012

Project Manager (Around country, Bolivia)

NGO CEAM (Amazon Studies Center)

Managed various projects in country level in the following sectors:

• solid waste management,
• socioeconomic and environmental sustainable development of communities,
• food security, agriculture and fisheries development.

Responsibilities in project management:

• Contacted and coordinated with stakeholders.
• Managed fundraising activities, prepared financial and narrative reports for donors.
• Assessed and monitored the outcomes and impact of the project's activities.
• Developed new project proposals, budgets, log frames

Food safety and nutrition; Sustainable natural resource management and climate change adaptation; Agriculture and horticulture; Development, Cooperation, Capacity Building

May 2010 - September 2011

Program Manager Water and Environment (La Paz, Bolivia)

CATALAN AGENCY FOR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION (ACCD)

• Designed, monitored the implementation, supervised and evaluated 7 projects (water, waste and environmental management) of bilateral cooperation between the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation, Catalan Water Agency and Waste Agency and the Ministry of Environment and Water (MMAyA) of Bolivia
• Supported local authorities to organize farmers' interest groups and identification of appropriate interventions for waste management, supply water, and gender equity activities
• Supported elaboration of national diagnosis of solid waste, drafting the solid waste law, drawing on different guides’ solid waste management, etc. in coordination with the Waste General Direction of the MMAyA
• Assisted with recruitment of consultants; drafted project reports, narrative and financial
• Formulated 2nd phase of the integrated development project, advised on project concept and institutional set-up; liaised with provincial authorities on screening and identification of project activities

Development Programme management; Identification, information and development of projects for the provision of Water, Waste and Environmental Engineering Management in several cities of Bolivia; Sustainable natural resources management and Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, Capacity Building, Integrated project ENV, Climate integrated project

October 2009-April 2010

June 2016 -September 2017

Agronomist to the Sectorial Studies and Technical Office (Barcelona, Spain)

SECTORIAL STUDIES AND TECHNICAL OFFICE AT DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK, FISHERIES

• Validated the files of Agricultural Income sent by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and the Environment to calculate the definitive Agricultural Income and elaborated the final macromagnitudes of Catalonia. Sending the data to the Department of Economics and Institute of Statistics of Catalonia (Idescat)
• Update the tables of the Idescat yearbook referring to agricultural macromagnitudes at current prices
• Carried out the estimate of the Advance of Agricultural Income and prepare the summary table of the agricultural macrofigures of Catalonia, along with the graphs and the Agricultural Income at current and constant's prices comparison between Catalonia and Spain and Final Agricultural Production of Catalonia
• Statistical analysis of agricultural income. Text processing and reports related to agrarian income (agricultural, livestock, etc.)
• Interdepartmental support and coordination in the elaboration of the National Plan for Agenda 2030
• Follow-up of International Cooperation projects of the Department and preparation of the annual report

Development Programme/Project Administration; Agro-industry and Agricultural Marketing; Agricultural Economics

October 2008 - June 2009

Technical Project (El Coca - Orellana, Ecuador)

CATALAN AGENCY FOR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION GOVERNMENT OF CATALONIA

Grant Programa de Jóvenes Cooperantes from Catalonia Government.

• Compiled geographic, hydrological, meteorological and all information necessary for the use of renewable energy sources and cataloging it in the GIS
• Prepared a GIS utilization instructions manual
• Trained municipal technicians for the use of the GIS and the importance of using it especially in the execution of electrification projects and in energy planning
• Contacted the relevant institutes and centers
• Compiled current energy coverage and extension planning in the region, also it's productive potential, the location of basic health and educational coverage and the population
• Included all the existing energy projects with special interest for renewables that are out of stock
• Evaluated energy potential through GIS tools
• Identified community`s centers with high productive potential, or low basic health and education coverage index where the conventional electrical network does not plan to access according to the planning plans

Participation in the program for Young Cooperators; Geographic Information System (GIS) and remote sensing; Monitoring and evaluation; Renewable Energy, Governance and Information

February 2006 - September 2008

July - September 2009

Technical Project Manager (Palafrugell, Spain)

MEDIS, ENGINEERING AND CONSULTING FIRM OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND AGROINDUSTRIAL S.L.P.

Technical and economic monitoring of the projects for private and public entities such as public administration, city councils, county councils.

• Environmental management, urban planning and landscape: Landscape restoration and integration projects; Management and intervention projects in the natural environment (planning of the territory); Waste management projects, renewable energies and water purification; Studies on environmental impact and landscape studies and Works management and integral works management.
• Agrarian, food and rural management: Executive projects of rural (agricultural and livestock) constructions; Irrigation projects (irrigation networks and drainage); Projects for developing rural and roads infrastructure; Electrification projects; Management plans for livestock manure; Valorification of rustic farms and agri-food industries; Agricultural, livestock, agri-food and environmental assessments and Comprehensive management of expropriations.

Sustainable natural resource management and climate change adaptation; Agricultural Economics; Water, Sanitation and Environmental Engineering, Nature and Biodiversity, Integrated Project ENV, and Management

July – October 2005

Full-time Intern (Colorado, USA)

DEPARTMENT OF SOILS AND SCIENCES OF THE FOREST AND NATURAL RESOURCE ECOLOGY LAB. COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY.

Fellowship from Universitat de Lleida and Colorado State University.

Performed soil analysis and laboratory testing for the scientific research “Soil carbon sequestration in grasslands; mechanisms of soil carbon storage; modeling the carbon cycle in the managed ecosystems” under the supervision of Keith Paustian and Karolien Denef.

Environment, Soils and Sciences, Laboratory testing