Cristina Larrea, Ma Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Canada Area

Lead IISD's Flagship State of Sustainability Initiatives (SSI), which aims at advancing sustainable and inclusive value chains by providing credible and solutions-oriented research, dialogue and strategic advice for decision-makers about voluntary sustainability standards and other supportive initiatives.

Montreal, Canada Area

Collaborate with Dr. Paola Perez Aleman- Professor of Strategy and Organization at the Desautels Faculty of Management 1. Create a case study on Impact Investment in Tanzania for undergraduate and Masters' students. Assess students' resolution of the case (2016-2020)2. Guest Lecturer (2021): Developing a theory of change for international development.

Montreal, Canada Area

• The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is a treaty-based international, inter-governmental organization dedicated to supporting and promoting strong, inclusive and sustainable economic growth in developing countries.
• Build a bankable and impactful project pipeline led by agricultural and forestry SMEs in Costa Rica to attract private capital for co-investment with the Environmental Bank Foundation (FUNBAM) in the following areas.
• Conduct project financial, impact and risk analysis. Propose investment deal flow, credit terms and conditions

Montreal, Canada Area

• Financial Inclusion and Impact Investing
• Lead the development of a bankable pipeline of social and environmentally responsible rural SMEs in Tanzania, El Salvador and The Caribbean to access credit from local and international FIs, through the provision of.
• Coordinate the production of market intelligence for FIs: investment guides sector and country specific (i.e. agriculture markets in Tanzania, sweet potato in the Caribbean, sustainable timber in Bolivia); financial.
• Assist the adaptation of financial literacy materials (i.e. language, content and exercises) addressed at rural micro-enterprises in Tanzania with limited knowledge on the subjectKey results
• 40% of pre-selected and coached SMEs in the Caribbean are successfully invited to submit a credit application
• Investment guide on the sweet potato sector in the CARIFORUM region. A grounded initial overview of the market potential and possible investment opportunities in selected countries

Montreal, Canada Area

• Financial Inclusion and Impact Investing Project Direction:
• Build a bankable impact-oriented pipeline of agricultural SMEs’ in Tanzania through the provision of training and matchmaking services to SMEs and FIs
• Development of an impact measurement framework to measure the social, economic and environmental performance of investments in the forestry sector
• Market intelligence: coordinate the design, implementation and reporting of two international surveys: “ Global Investments in Sustainable Tropical Forestry” & “ Investments in Palm Oil in Latin America and the.
• 10 selected Tanzanian SMEs (out of 36 screened) trained and coached in financial management: investment plans and pre-credit application forms developed to present them to investors highlighting their potential.
• 4 modules on financial literacy for SMEs adapted to Tanzanian context. Translation of materials into Swahili: debt finance in practice; risk management; accounting; debt management

Montreal, Canada

• Financial Inclusion and Impact Investing
• Analyse rural SMEs'​ business profiles and investment plans for selection and matching with investors considering economic, financial, social and environmental impacts
• Co-coordinate the organization of business round-tables between selected SMEs and investors in Costa Rica, Bolivia and Peru to present SMEs' investment plans
• Conduct market research on the sustainable cocoa sector in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Key speaker at the international conferences and seminars on impact investingLocations include: Peru, Mexico, Bolivia, USA, Canada and The NetherlandsImpact Evaluation
• Lead in partnership with IRIS - from The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) - the development of a framework and a set of indicators to measure investment's impact in agriculture SMEs (economic-social-environmental)

Montreal, Canada Area

• Development of SAFA: Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture Systems
• Review a draft version of SAFA' s economic dimension framework (themes, subthemes and a preliminary set of indicators)
• Design indicators specific for three levels of the food chain (primary production, processing, marketing/retailing) to enable sustainability performance assessment of the enterprise and farmer
• Develop indicator methodological sheet: description; relevance to the enterprise/ producer in terms of sustainability compliance; detailed guidelines on how to measure it; assessment guidelines for rating and weighting.
• SAFA indicator set and guidelines for the economic resilient dimension (version 2.0)

Mexico D.F.

• Economic Inclusion and Sustainable Development
• Design and implement a participatory rural diagnostic in two regions of the state of Guerrero with local communities and community-based organizations to identify major development needs
• Conduct relevant research into civil society participation in local government in five municipalities of southern-eastern Mexico (Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas)
• Monitor the economic initiatives of local micro-enterprises supported by Enlace CC in Chiapas, Oaxaca, Guerrero and Puebla, some of them led by women
• Represent Enlace CC in the Latin-American association “ALOP” (Asociación Latinoamericana de Organismos de Promoción al Desarrollo) in the preparation for the round tables of the trade agreements negotiations between.
• Regional diagnostic (political, economical, socio-cultural and environmental). Preliminary set of priorities for the Regional Development Program

Ocosingo, Chiapas, Mexico

• Economic Inclusion and Sustainable Development
• Lead the regional project (strategic, operational and financial) in coordination with indigenous communities and rural organizations of the rainforest
• Manage the operational and administrative team (15 people). Coordination with ~ 690 direct beneficiaries
• Lead the promotion of sustainable natural resources management practices
• Coordinate the establishment of rural micro-enterprises and cooperatives with local communities, including women led cooperatives (coffee,livestock,maize,non-timber products,poultry,fruits,vegetables and art-craft)..
• Evaluate public programs (Oportunidades, Prodesis, Procede) addressed at promoting sustainable development in the region; it included gender-based analysis

Ocosingo, Chiapas, Mexico

• Project ManagerSustainable Development
• Manage the project: intercultural education in the Lacandon rainforest: design-planning-implementation-monitoring-evaluation
• Co-coordinate the assessment of educational conditions and learning needs of local indigenous communities to update the primary education program ECIDEA (Educacion Comunitaria Indigena para el Desarrollo Autonomo) run.
• Advice and support the upgrade of ECIDEA: curricula, training of teachers, bilingual materials
• Lead the implementation of a political strategy in coordination with the federal Ministry of Education to design new intercultural education programs at national level adapted to different contexts
• Conduct research into the state of fulfillment of the right to education of indigenous people in Chiapas

Oaxaca De Juárez Area, Mexico

• Implement a mid-term evaluation of the project “the seed of projects” aiming at capacity-building of youth community based organisations in Oaxaca
• Conduct a preliminary assessment of Milpas' organizational project to support strategic planning; development of recommendations

London, United Kingdom

• Support the development of proposals of social development projects
• Design and manage the external consultant database to be used at international tenders

Preparation Course- Project Management Professional Certificate

Study Modules of PMBOK and Project Management Professional Certificate: Scope Management, Schedule Management, Cost Management, Quality.

Executive Development Course - Mba Series, Business Administration And Management, Executive Institute

Accounting and Finance Strategic Analysis Marketing Human Resources Skills Managerial Negotiations

Master Of Arts (M.A.), School Of Global Development

Dissertation: “Observation of the empowerment process model on women and Dalits groups working with NGOs under the NPLAP project in rural.

Course, La Politique De Concurrence Face À La Mondialisation Et L´Élargissement De L´Union Européenne

Summer course: July 1999

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Management And Administration, Certificate Of Erasmus Programme

Bachelor'S Degree Business Management And Administration