Celeste L.

Project manager with strong monitoring, evaluation and learning skills. I have experienced in projects ideation and grants scouting and bids writing, as well as academic writing and qualitative research methodologies (including data collection and fieldwork). I possess strong consultancy and communication skills and I manage social media, institutional and organisational knowledge archives, also as copywriter and contents developer. I am also experienced as interviewer, podcaster and geopolitical analyst. I am also passionate about graphics and visual communication, which I innovatively take care of for personal and professional projects. I have also worked in the media industry and in cultural and editorial events, schools, bottom-up initiatives to strengthen ethical and sound journalism and knowledge dissemination. Merging academic and project-based knowledge, my strong experience in MEAL project cycle plans is being deployed aiming at securing the operationalization of intervention programmes from timeline for funding and donors' requirements and implementation compliance with a focus on beneficiaries and people participatory engagement in knowledge creation. My specific expertise is rooted in intelelctual growth pursuit and various professional engagements with financial inclusion, food security, training and education, trade and economic development.