Office of the UN Resident Coordinator

Policy Analysit 

Plataforma UHPH

Program Manager

100 Resilient Cities - Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation

Support a portfolio of cities to ensure positive, clear, and productive relationships with city contacts, partners, and contractors. Oversee and ensure progress along a critical path of milestones from member cities; brief and elevate on development, performance, and quality. Coordinate across 100 Resilient Cities to improve communications and streamline systems for efficiency.

Global Resilience Practice and Operations Associate 

United Nations

•Acted as liaison and enabled negotiation for program development in five new countries (Argentina, Paraguay, Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Costa Rica) after head’s first approach mission, wrote and negotiated agreements and expected accomplishments regarding technical cooperation (south-south). Broadened UN-HABITAT operations in the region increasing the regional office budget by 20%.
  
•Planned and organized the logistics of the urban agenda in over 50 regional and global summits, conferences and forums, among them: The 7th World Urban Forum, Smart Cities, UCLG World Summit for Local and Regional Leaders, MINURVI General Assembly, HABITAT 3 regional process.  Manage high-level reunions with Ministers, Presidents, Governors, Mayors and relevant stakeholders.

•	Identified, recruited and trained over 35 consultants for five different projects in the region mainly in México, Colombia, and Ecuador regarding institutional capacity building and training.

•	Conducted and reviewed trimester political analysis reports in over fifteen countries in Latin America and developed mapped overviews and timelines of political terms focused on the countries where UN-Habitat holds operations regarding the political environment in LAC to the HQ offices in Nairobi, Kenya for decision-making matters.

Regional Liaison to the Regional Director’s Office

UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme)

Successfully coordinated the regional project “Initiative of Prosperous Cities for the Future" operated in five different cities of the Latin American region simultaneously.  Consolidating and leading a team of twelve consultants, systematizing their work all along the process from data collection,  data analysis, develop econometric studies to develop action plans regarding public policy recommendations to the five cities. 
Project financed by CAF (Corporativa Andina de Fomento)
Project implemented in Panamá,Lima,Quito, Guayaquil and Fortaleza

Program Manager to the Cities Prosperity Initiative

Jalisco Cómo Vamos

•	Developed a funding strategy for prospective donors based on the institutional scope for quality of life in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, involving civil society, private sector and academia.

•	Liaised and established ties with relevant stakeholders within local and regional networks like: Tómala, Red Mexicana por Ciudades Justas, Democraticas y Sustentables (RedMX and RedLA International), Red por la Rendición de Cuentas (RRC),Acción por Ciudadana Frente a la Pobreza. 

•	Systematized the results of the 2012 perception survey and report launching to the to relevant stakeholders and donors in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area.

Institutional Liaison Coordinator

ITESO Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara

•	Implemented the strategies best practices and capacity building design proposals that respect the natural environment and promote sustainability among the community and the outsiders, therefore improving the understanding of the need for balance between quality of life and social cohesion in order to build a stronger community.
•	Empowered the community through workshops and in order to be able to insert themselves into the touristic service market. 
•	Consolidated four different local cooperatives based on sustainable economical activities: Saline Cooperative; Hospitality and Culinary services Cooperative; Agroforestry Service Cooperative; Fishermen’s Cooperative.

Project Community Cohesion and Empowerment Project in Chalacatepec

•	Helped to generate the conceptualization of the Urban Prosperity wheel under the UN-Habitat prosperity approach.
•	Helped in the design and the first conceptualization of the methodology of the “Wheel of Prosperity” shaped by the definition of all urban functions as subsumed in six main axes: Quality of life, infrastructure, productivity, Social Equity and Inclusion Environmental Sustainability and Governance and Legislation.
•	Support and facilitate solutions to the drafting resolution chair, the 23rd edition of the Governing Council.

Internship - Capacity Building and Research Division

Specialist in International Cooperation for Development, with more than 10 years of experience leading strategic projects in Latin America and building inter-institutional partnerships, connecting governmental, international, and private sector stakeholders to drive innovative and sustainable solutions that have led to successful decentralized cooperation projects.

Skilled in project management, government relations, networking, and partnership management; I'm fluent in 5 languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian and French. 

Currently located at the Mexican-USA border of Cd. Juárez-El Paso,TX.

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