Project Manager with more than 8 years of experience in the education sector as a secondary school teacher, more than 2 years of experience in the business development sector as a business manager in development banking and more than 10 years in the field of environment, climate change and disaster risks management and resilience building working with donors, development partners and stakeholders. I have over 10 years experience in project management working in 15 countries in the Pacific region. These experiences includes capacity building, business developments, disaster risk management/reduction and climate change adaptation, mitigation and finance, climate science information, biodiversity and land degradation.
I have represented Nauru, Fiji and SPREP at the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP) and familiar with the UNFCCC processes and procedures in coordination, monitoring and reporting to the UNFCCC secretariat. In addition, I was the development of the Third National Communication Coordinator for Fiji and experience with building capacity by mainstreaming multilateral environment agreement (UNFCCC, UNCBD and UNCCD) into inter-ministerial structures and mechanisms across Fiji Government and non-government organizations.
Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting & Business Tax Law, University of New South Wales, Australia 1999,
Master of Business Administration, USP Fiji, 2007
Member. Samoa Institute of Accountants
IAP2 Certified
Independent Consultant with over 15 years experience in supporting donor funded development programmes to improve M&E capacity; support for development of frameworks and systems for M&E; training and mentoring in participatory and user-sensitive approaches to M&E; development evaluation (developmental, formative and summative; participatory and mixed methods). Countries of work experience include: Pacific- Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, FSM, Kiribati, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea. As well as Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Honduras, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lao PDR, Nicaragua, Mozambique, Peru, Philippines, Syria, Uganda, Timor Leste, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Zimbabwe. Clients include SPREP/ADB SPCR: Pacific Regional Track; Australia Indonesia Partnership for Emerging Infectious Diseases; Indonesia Australia Forest Carbon Partnership; Fiji National University (School of Medicine); USAID’s Global Climate Change Program and many others
