Panama City, Panamá, Panama
• CIimate finance & impact investment specialist, with 20 years working in developing countries. • Designing and implementation of payment for ecosyster services initiatives in the agriculture sector. • Investment readiness support for growing SMEs, with strong analytical and business finance skills and delivery of ESG due diligence on investment prospects. • Market facilitation, engaging private sector, government and civil society to identify and implement win-win strategies to overcome market failures. • Worked in: Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Senegal, Sudan, Nepal, Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru.
Private sector development in agriculture and energy sectors in Africa, South Asia and Latin America, providing business development services to rural enterprises, agribusinesses and cooperatives, developing inclusive business models that balance commercial viability and and economic, social and environmental impact for farmers and communities; investment readiness support for growing SMEs and facilitating links with impact investors.
Manager of Twin's Latin America coffee programme, linking up smallholder producer organisations with other actors in the industry to promote sustainability in the sector. Also support smallholder farmers in Malawi to develop sustainable business models for producer organisations.
Provide technical support to staff and SMEs to develop sustainable social business models, carry out participatory market mapping and analysis and design, monitor and evaluation social enterprise and systemic market development interventions in the South
Manager of a portfolio of resilient livelihoods projects (income generation, agricultural value chains, food security, rural development, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction) across Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
Manager of a portfolio of development projects in Nicaragua with a focus on market access for agricultural cooperatives, sustainable livelihoods and natural resource management.