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UNV Akiko Name Akiko Abe
Title UNV Programme Officer
Host agency United Nations Development Programme
Duty station Manila
Nationality Japan
Prior to join the UN family, Akiko has worked for both public and private organizations for multi-sector and regional development and have been to China, India, East Timor, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Indonesia, Philippines, among others. She is pleased to join UNDP/UNV team as to share the mission, passion and compassion for working together towards peace and development for all. As we move forward towards International Volunteers Day (IVD) and the 10th anniversary of the International Year of Volunteers(IYV+10) in 2011, Akiko looks forward to bringing a "inspired action" to promote volunteerism to help achieve MDGs with her colleagues here in the Philippines. She hopes to see many of colleagues around the world from now on through this global network.

UNV Lily Name Lilia Capalad
Title Country Operations Assistant
Host agency United Nations Development Programme
Duty station Manila
Nationality Philippines
Lily has been working with UNV since June 1990 and has worked with seven UNV POs from 5 countries - Sri Lanka, India, Australia, Japan and Spain.

She finds it fulfilling to be actively involved in sustainable human development through the deployment of volunteers to different UN missions. Her past experiences include serving as UNV Administrative Assistant, Operations Associate on detail at UNV Headquarters (Bonn, Germany), Individual Contractor for UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and member of UNDP Manila Learning Team.

UNV Addie Name Addie Unsi
Title National UNV Coordinator for IYV+10
Host agency United Nations Volunteers Programme
Duty station Manila
Nationality Philippines
Addie joined UNV family as the UNV National Coordinator for 10th Year Anniversary of International Year of Volunteers (IYV+10) in Manila. His primary role is to link with different stakeholders in promoting Millennium Development Goals by mainstreaming volunteerism.

Prior his UNV assignment, Addie has worked for different local and international non-government organizations from community organizer to programme manager. Lately, he was connected with E-Net Philippines as focal person for Mindanao Education for all advocacy as PR Officer. He has wide experiences in humanitarian, development, advocacy and campaigns work. He has attended various international workshops and conferences that develop his development framework.

For Addie, the choice of working with development is rooted from his vision to be a servant of people, out of his educational knowledge, experiences, and most importantly in collaboration with other people. Addie always valued others and he thinks that world is made up of different things to complement each other, in whatever capacity they have.

Development work is not just a job, a very precious form of charity that we can offer and harvest from this world until life after death. Volunteerism is a secret for sustainable development.

 

UN Volunteers across the country

 
Title UNV Devinfo Assistant
Host agency United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Department of Education (DepED)---link to UNICEF Phils official page and DepED Devinfo page
Duty station Manila
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UNV Racmah Name Racmah Abdula
Title UNV Community Services Assistant
Host agency United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Duty station Cotabato
Nationality Philippines

 


UNV Rasul Name Rasul Kulat
Title UNV Field Assistant
Host agency United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Duty station Cotabato
Nationality Philippines

Rasul graduated in Notre Dame University, Cotabato City, Philippines with the degree of Bachelor of Arts Major in Public Administration. After the graduation, He immediately rendered his service in the spirit of volunteerism under the Consortium of Bangsamoro Civil Society (CBCS), in Cotabato City, Philippines.

During the break of the war between the AFP and the MILF forces in 2008, Rasul has worked as a Senior Community Organizer / Team Leader of the Food Assistance Project implemented by the Community and Family Services International funded by the United Nations World Food Program (UN-WFP) in both host and affected municipalities for the Internally Displace Persons.

Other previous works includes, Team Leader of the Study on the Socio Economic Reconstruction and Development of Conflict Affected Areas in Mindanao funded by the Japan International Cooperating Agency (JICA).

Rasul was also given an opportunity to be part of the Mindanao Peacebuilding Institute (MPI), as documenter, and later part lead the secretariat team. He has been part of the journey of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) under the Peace and Reconciliation Program, in nurturing a peaceful and just society; reconciling the broken relationship for the tri-people in Mindanao (Moro, Lumad and Christians)

Rasul always has the passion to work and serve the people, the vulnerable, less fortunate but most especially those Internally Displace Person (IDP) because He, himself was an IDP.


UNV Taka Name Takayuki Saito
Title UNV Project Officer
Host agency National Nutrition Council /  WFP
Duty station Manila
Nationality Japan
Takayuki is assigned as UNV Project Officer to work for World Food Programme Philippines' projects. He arrived in Metro Manila in October 2010; his duty station is located in NNC (National Nutrition Council). NNC is the one of the government organizations “Fight for Hunger” with WFP. He works for food security, especially for VAM (Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping) with Nutrition Surveillance Division of NNC.
He is a focal point of IPC (Integrated Phase Classification for Food Security; is a situation analysis, to support for the consensus building and decision making), and try to conduct IPC pilot practice in four municipalities in the northern Mindanao.

Prior to join UN Volunteers, he has worked in Laos as a Japanese NGO for community based primary health care. He has completed a master degree of agriculture, majored in nutritional science.

Hitoshi Name Hitoshi Katayama
Title UNV Environment Specialist
Host agency United Nations Development Programme
Duty station Manila
Nationality Japan
Hitoshi has been working as UNV Environment Specialist in the Philippines since November 2009. Prior to joining the UNV, he was the Team Coordinator of a Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV) Project, "The Project for Enhancement of Environmental Education program by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)" in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Between 2007-2009, he served as the Education Officer for Environmental Conservation in Micronesia, as a member of JOCV, JICA's overseas volunteer programme.

Holding a master's degree in environment with specialization in solid waste management, he is interested in ensuring a better life for the people by way of fostering environmental sustainability and addressing climate change.

Cat Name Catherine Dauphin Lorens
Title UNV Health & Policy Planning Specialist
Host agency World Health Organization (WHO)
Duty station Manila
Nationality France

Catherine is assigned as UNV Health and Policy Planning Specialist with the World Health Organization. Native from France, she has been involved in the health sector for more than 12 years working for both public and private sectors.

After completed her master's degrees in business and administration and in health economics, she started working for Quintiles, a consulting firm, handling several health care systems analysis and designing pharmaco-economics studies. After 2 years she joined NOVARTIS Pharma, a Swiss international pharmaceutical company and spent 9 years in different positions, dealing with strategy and policy, price and reimbursement and project management.

Her passion for development brought her to a 2 year assignment in Vietnam as Country Manager for ESTHER a franco-vietnamese project on HIV/AIDS care and treatment. She planned, organized and monitored the implementation of the project in Hanoi, Haiphong and Ho Chi Minh City; supported Vietnamese and French teams of 10 hospitals involved and secured the coordination of the project with international and local stakeholders in Vietnam. Since then, she has been working for the French Bank of Development (AFD) as Health Project Manager, assisting several African and Middle-Eastern countries in designing and financing their projects in the sector. She was also leading a working group and studies on the role of the private health sector in development.

Catherine is enthusiastic about being back in Asia and having this great opportunity to learn and share her skills and experience through volunteerism.


UNV Nerea Name Nerea Sanchez
Title UNV Management Support
Host agency United Nations Development Programme
Duty station Manila
Nationality Spain
Nerea arrived in the Philippines in January 2009 as a UNV Management Support with UNDP. Prior to joining UNV she worked as the Assistant Director of the Spanish NGO Infancia Sin Fronteras in Managua, Nicaragua, where she lived for 3 years before moving to the Philippines. Nerea has also worked as the International Development Project Officer for the Spanish National Scout Association (Madrid, Spain), and as the Team Coordinator for AXUNICA, a Spanish NGO (Granada, Nicaragua).

She has completed a master's degree in Individual and Group Psychotherapy (2004-2007), specializing in Child's Psychology and a postgraduate degree in International Project Management with the Spanish Red Cross. She thinks that living abroad and meeting people from different cultures should be an integrated in college education to open every young man or woman's mind to solidarity and mutual understanding.

Nerea Sanchez: Learning without Boundaries

   
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