Ma. Alexandra Milan

I accomplish day-to-day project management, operations, and technical support in all project activities of SHIELD Program. I also performed effective financial, administrative, and logistics management such as preparation of requests for payments, reimbursements, or advances, budget expenditure monitoring, venue arrangements and other services required for workshops and consultations in close coordination with UNDP Programme and Operations Team

As part of the consultant team on updating the Ecological Profile of San Juan, Metro Manila, I focus on data collation and technical writing on the Economic and Infrastructure Sector of the city, as well as writing the Demographic Section of Santo Tomas, Pampanga, and the Local Development Indicator System (LDIS) of the two LGUs, including the municipality of Castilla, Sorsogon.

I taught English to students from preschool to high school level for 24 hours a week that includes presentation of my home country, organizing online English-French apéritif sessions for French students, teachers and Filipino colleagues during confinement, providing online quizzes and homework in English for middle school and high school students, and facilitating English classroom activities for preschool and primary school students.

am responsible in formulating environmental policies in line with the vision to transform every individual into a biodiversity champion. This includes lobbying the Sustainable Forest Management Bill to Congressmen, Senators, network organizations and the public; active participation in advocacy-related meetings with partner organizations, policymakers, and communities; leading Haribon’s advocacy committee; and preparing position papers, project proposals and policy research agenda of the organization.

I provide project and technical support in the overall preparation of BIOFIN finance solution activities and logistics including the completion of Naujan Lake National Park Valuation research.

As the project aims to restore the resilience and co-benefit sharing of coastal communities in the Eastern Seaboard of the Philippines, I organized & coordinated all meetings, technical and focus group discussions, and site visits for scoping missions. I provided day-to-day operational and technical support, and worked closely with people from the government, UNDP Global and UNDP Philippines, NGOs, academe, public officials, and communities from the chosen Regional project sites.

Co-led capacity building activities to more than 60 Local Government Units (LGUs) in the Philippines entails the update of Comprehensive Development Plans (CDPs) by integrating Climate and Disaster Risk Assessment (CDRA) results. I facilitated 5-day workshops for three weeks, served as a panelist and supplied recommendations to enhance programs, projects, and activity proposals based on the CDRA framework.

I led and conducted an Ecosystem Valuation research in Apo Reef, Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro, Philippines and produced various technical reports based on a review of internationally accepted good practices, proposed methodologies and recommendations of BIOFIN and SMARTSEAS project supervisors and obtained values of economic and financial internal rate of returns.

Co-lead and coordinator of fieldwork in five Marine Key Biodiversity Areas in the Philippines; used monitoring and evaluation tools for Marine Protected Area (MPA) analysis; specialized in conducting focus group discussions facilitated the Socioeconomic Effectiveness Assessment Tool (SEAT) for evaluating Marine Protected Areas and State of the Coasts Report. I also accomplished report analysis, writing of results in field sampling surveys, logistics, and administrative support under the project.

I co-organized and co-facilitated the ECAN Planning Workshop with local government officials of Roxas, Palawan as participants. As Assistant Team Leader, I co-formulated and co-produced the Resource Management Plan of Roxas through the update of their Municipal Profile, conduct of threats analysis for the Environmentally Critical Areas Network (ECAN) Zones with the practicum team, and accomplishment of administrative and logistics tasks.