La Paz, Bolivia
After presenting the document “Towards effective planning and management of emergency and development projects” at Lund University Sweden in 2008, I finalized in Dec. 2013 the new document "Towards Sustainable Development of Resilient Communities: Use of the participative PlaMSyL Method within the new paradigm Post-2015¨ (PlaMSyL stands for “Planning, Monitoring, Systematizing and Learning Projects¨) which has been the main purpose of my work in the last thirty years by learning to systematize development and emergency projects in order to learn to improve and serve communities in a better way using the monitoring information during the implementation of a project. The method is based on the criteria of Quality-Accountability-Transparency (QAT) and uses the Systematization Curve, which we developed working with field teams, communities, authorities and donors, and shows a non-linear and dynamic evolvement of a project instead of a linear – static development. The method tries to be more integral using a SET of indicators (Social-Economic-Technical and in the future will include the Political-Institutional-Ecological set of indicators). Based on PlaMSyL, we developed other systems for the stage of Preparedness in Disaster Risk Reduction for strengthening the Resiliency of communities and the application of the Humanitarian Performance Monitoring System in large emergencies. We used it for monitoring and reporting a regional project of five countries in LACRO and in two large disasters in the Philippines. Lately we are teaching it in the M.Sc. porgram of CIDES-UMSA (Center for Economic-Social Development).
I've been invited by the Direction of CEPIES to teach the courses for master degrees on Evaluation of the Teaching-Learning Process and Monitoring Systems for Educative Projects.
I have worked with the UNICEF CO and in consultation with partners, communities and local governments a Preparedness Response Plan for the first hours of a multiple emergency because of winter floods, Zika virus and contamination mainly for the province of Esmeraldas one of the most vulnerable regions in Ecuador in coordination with the Humanitarian Country Team and the Secretary for RM. I´ve been team leader of senior professionals for developing and presenting a UNICEF project proposal "Education and Protection for Children and Adolescents in Emergencies at the Ecuador-Colombia Border" to ECHO HIP Children of Peace. We updated the EWEA (Early Warning and Early Action) UNICEF System with the Program and Operations Officers together and developed with the M&E officer a first simple prioritization risk-index for vulnerable municipalities.
I'm attaching here the Final Mission Report of my working experience in Sierra Leone as part of the UN Ebola Emergency Response Team in West Africa with UNICEF. The main purpose of my work was to implement the UNICEF HPM (Humanitarian Performance Monitoring) toolkit in 4 the Centers where UNICEF is working (3 OICCs, 11 CCCs, 1 ICC, 2 HC) in 4hotspot Districts of the country: Bombali, Tonkolili, Kono and Western Area. Also to elaborate the HPM indicators table for the weekly SitRep with inputs of all seven sectors of UNICEF and two areas (Health, Nutrition, WASH, Child Protection, Education, C4D, and the areas of PM&E and CCC, community care centers). The experience has been very rich and I was able to implement my duties based on previous HPM experiences and the PlaMSyL Method, which I transferred to colleagues of the area of PM&E and trained in the basis of HPM to three Field Support Officers. I feel blessed for the opportunity I had to meet and work with so many good people and learn new important issues for future adverse events in the field monitoring visits as well in the main office coordinating with all sectors to put together the weekly HPM Table of indicators which was part of the SitRep sent to HQ in NY. The Final Mission Report summarizes all important steps of the work I could make with the UNICEF team and hope it can help to improve the HPM System.