Eduardo Aguilar Espinoza

Latest work I have been involved with includes:

• Policy brief on the right to a healthy environment for the ESCR-net. Interviews, research, drafting, compiling, editing (to be published by Apr24)
• Analysis of how agricultural policies in Mexico have given more power to transnational corporations. Desk research, compilation and context analysis. Written for FoE-ATALC, 2022.
• Systematization of interviews for the creation of a feminist agenda focused on solidarity and care. Interviews, compiling and presentation of preliminary analysis. Written for JASS Mesoamerica (2021)

• I have been working exclusively for networks and organizations pursuing the realization of human rights, critical wildlife conservation or social and environmental justice
• Organizations I have worked for include ESCR-Net, Panthera Foundation, American Jewish World Service, IAFN, Friends of the Earth/ATALC, CIEL, Norwegian Development Fund, among others.

• Created and implemented evaluation tools, managed a small team for data collection using focus groups and interviews and presented final report for the Safe Water in Schools and Communities program
• Tracked progress towards meeting short-term objectives set out in the overall evaluation plan.
• Collaborated in the diagnostic team of a WaSH project evaluation in 2018-19, with underprivileged schools affected by the 2017 earthquake,.

• Coordinated the secretariat based in Costa Rica working for a global constituency promoting AF as a landscape restoration technique for food sovereignty
• Provided leadership in developing innovative approaches to meet goals under the programmatic areas of Capacity Building, Knowledge Management, Accreditation and Site Development
• Supervised program progress, assisted in fundraising and MEL, created web content and training materials and facilitated some workshops, among other tasks
• Piloted a small grants program, designed to show successful experiences with AF using a framework for monitoring and reporting.

• Part of the team monitoring a transboundary watershed governance program for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, through its regional secretariat in Costa Rica, facilitating a number of projects related to bi-national policies on the ground, watershed management, and climate change adaptation/mitigation
• Provided assistance to the teams in the different countries and helped coordinate outreach activities, workshops and high-level meetings with government officials
• Facilitated some community exchanges (using participatory techniques such as story-telling and focus groups) in order to understand the impacts of climate change on the livelihoods of rural and indigenous communities

• Wrote desk-based technical papers for UNDP's facility (then called GCF, now FACS) for its internal discussion and assessment, regarding the potential for sustainable production schemes for the major agricultural commodities traded worldwide
• Written in English, including elaboration of charts and figures, length 20-60 pages.

• Program financed by the Norwegian Development Fund, with participation of universities from the region
• Facilitated the dynamic and participatory strategizing process with farmer cooperatives from Central America looking to up-scale local production of seeds via Participatory Plant Breeding.
• Designed information materials and workshops to guide farmers' advocacy goals and at the same time learn mutually about their challenges and opportunities. I would participate in meetings with local authorities as well as internationally (e.g. CBD COP9 in Bonn, Germany).