My tasks include:*Leading the Manila project activities both in substantive and operational issues ensuring optimization of human and financial resources and nurturing a culture of results with highest performance standards.*Undertaking daily management of Manila activities, including effective program implementation and documents progress towards the achievement of outputs.*Preparing work plans, produce timely reports - financial and progress reports - as required by IAG and donor reporting systems.*Developing the necessary strategic documents concerning program planning and implementation, such as policy papers, concept notes, etc.*Overseeing the establishment of the monitoring and evaluation plan of the Manila activities and ensure its implementation.*Ensuring the participation and involvement of relevant stakeholders in program implementation so that the process is inclusive, participatory, and transparent.

During the Humphrey Fellowship, I aim to learn how civil society organizations in transitional countries shape public policies and institutions. I will engage with organizations that have global expertise with empowering marginalized groups to assert their rights and collective interests in governance, institution-building and policymaking.

The main objective of the consultancy is to support the research requirements of the data gathering and consolidation in the monitoring and evaluation of the country's National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP), particularly during the years 2012 to 2016. The specific tasks assigned to the research assistants were as follows: (a) gather, consolidate, and organize agency/sectoral data for the years covering 2012 to 2016 for the human security thematic priority using prescribed reporting templates; (b) validate submissions (files, data, reports) of government agencies; (c) assess and document consistency and quality of data submissions of agencies based on the NCCAP results-based monitoring & evaluation system (RBMES) indicators; (d) assist in the preparations of relevant sectors in the NCCAP monitoring & evaluation report; (e) contribute to the analysis of the interaction/relationship human security has among other thematic indicators; (f) provide documentation support services in stakeholder consultations, workshops, meetings; and (g) coordinate with relevant agencies on data requirements and meetings, consultations, workshop schedules. The researcher for human security looked at data and government efforts in areas of climate change and disaster as these two concepts relate to health, national and sub-national coordination in the mainstreaming of CCA/DRRM efforts, displacement, economic effects of disaster, vulnerability & risk assessment, adaptive capacity of communities and institutions at the local level, and emergency response & preparedness. Inputs to the report templates as well as data gathered through desk research and field work provide basis for the monitoring & evaluation of the NCCAP in the area of human security.

The position is mainly concerned with doing academic professorial work with the goal of enhancing the knowledge of students enrolled to the course. The subjects I'm teaching are the following: Research Writing, Political Theory, Democratic Theory, Politics & Development in Asia and Africa, Government and Constitution, Basic Principles of Economics, and Introduction to Public Administration.

As a program manager at the Foundation, I was primarily tasked to oversee ongoing projects and partnerships with several local government units (LGUs) seeking technical assistance from the NGO I was affiliated with. Said partnerships were anchored on the goal of strengthening LGUs' technical and institutional capacities in pursuit of good governance at the local level. I was also responsible for drafting concept notes and full project proposals for submission to different international donor organizations with the aim of involving the LGUs and local governance stakeholders that are not only part of our network but also serve as our partners in project implementation and policy lobbying at the national level. As program manager, I had the exposure of working with funding agencies at the international level and have worked with them in the joint implementation of specific projects. To ensure smooth implementation of our NGO's projects and activities, I represented the NGO through continuous communication and coordination with our project partners, funders, and fellow civil society organizations in meetings, conferences, symposia, and public consultations.

Professional Fellows Program, a program under the US Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Culture, brings emerging leaders from around the world to the United States for intensive short-term fellowships designed to broaden their professional expertise. Fellows are placed in non-profit organizations, media outlets, private sector businesses, and government offices across the country to learn first-hand how issues in their field are addressed in the United States. The goal of the program, as implemented by International City/County Management Association (ICMA), is to create institutionalized long-term partnerships that support emerging leaders and their institutions in the ASEAN countries and the US to inspire change in creating responsive, open, and accountable governance and in creating more sustainable communities.