During the last five years, Blanche has worked on delivering an ample range of services to older adults, first in-person by being the Executive Director of Vida Senior Centers in Washington DC and more recently via the online program LIGAS MAYORES, which mission is educating and informing Spanish-speaker adults about any topic that can affect their quality of life. Before that, twenty-five years of professional experience managing programs on governance, transparency, anticorruption, democracy, elections, and accountability at international institutions such as the World Bank, The World Bank Institute, UN, IADB, OAS, IFES, NDI, IRI, TI, DFID, CAPEL, and others. Also experience in Peruvian public agencies such as ONPE and the local government of Lince; and as Executive Director of an NGO in Peru.Extensive experience managing stakeholders relationships during high visibility political processes, first as the Executive Director of the Peruvian NGO that lead the promotion of democracy in the 90s in Peru; secondly, as a member of presidential campaigns teams promoting electoral participation, transparency, and vigilance of votes; thirdly as the Vice-President of the Peruvian Electoral Agency –ONPE- in 2000-2001, organizing presidential and congressional elections for the democratic transition. Effective operational skills in turning objectives into results as manager of programs in international institutions as well as in public sector agencies: (1) As a result of ONPE’s performance in 2001, the perception of people changed about ONPE from being perceived as one of the most corrupted and inefficient into 'the most credible public' institution in the country. (2) Coordinated the collection of 1.5 million signatures in support of a referendum against the unconstitutional third consecutive term in office of former President Alberto Fujimori.Demonstrated capacity to build bridges and promote dialogue among stakeholders, working with public and private partners, with services’ users, and with civil society organizations at the national and sub-national levels.
Listed skills include Public Policy, Civil Society, Ngos, Policy, and 27 others.
