Policy coherence for development

Alina Orrico has twelve years of on-field and HQ experience working with international development partners in different capacities, ranging from aid coordination to project management and advisory roles. She has in-depth understanding of the EU structures, the EC priorities and the EU/EDF procedures under the NDICI/Global Europe and the Team Europe and Global Gateway package.

Throughout her career she has played different roles in organizations, liaising with governments, bi-lateral and multi-lateral development partners, CSOs and the private sector to enhance effective development cooperation. Alina has worked closely with the EC services on joint programming, Team Europe and the Working Better Together approach. This includes coordination among development actors within the Practitioners' Network (PN) and the European Development Finance Institutions (EDFI) Association in Brussels, together with different EU-partner country contexts for better joint programming and joint implementation (notably with the EU Office in Palestine).

Alina is highly skilled at conducting research and analysis on development cooperation policy and has solid reporting abilities, providing briefings and making policy suggestions at different government levels. She has extensive experience in arranging and facilitating workshops attended by governments officials and civil society organizations, as well as enabling and conducting dialogue (incl. EU policy dialogues) with a variety of stakeholders.

Research Associate at the Katastrophenforschungsstelle (Disaster Research Unit), Freie Unverstität Berlin. Consultant and researcher on Urban Disaster Risk Governance. PhD in Development Planning at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London (UCL), MSc. in Urban Management at Technische Universität Berlin (TU-Berlin), and Designer at Universidad Católica de Temuco (UC-Temuco), Chile. Founder and Editor of the Journal of Latin American Studies on Disaster Risk Reduction REDER (https://www.revistareder.com)

Fiorina Mugione is a highly accomplished professional with a wealth of experience in development cooperation. Her previous role as Chief of Entrepreneurship at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development involved policy advice, training, mentorship, and coaching to entrepreneurs, women leaders, and young diplomats. In addition to her coaching and consulting work at GDSI and other firms, Fiorina is a Board of the Organisation of of Women in International Trade (OWIT) working on women's economic empowerment. As a Board Member of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), focusing on education and entrepreneurship, she actively supports initiatives that empower individuals and communities. Furthermore, as a Board member of Accelerate Africa, she plays a strategic role in driving the organization's mission of fostering economic growth and development in Africa. She also regularly work as expert advisor and Master Coach. She currently serves as an Ambassador for the European Union Capacity4Development program, where she contributes to promoting sustainable development through capacity building.

Special areas: Analysis of social and economic policy interactions in transition and post-conflict societies, with subfields on gender equity and incomplete welfare systems. Served as a member of multi-national, national and regional teams working in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East to assess social conditions and to evaluate programs on poverty and inequality at both national and community levels

A senior communications expert interested in sustainable development, human rights and international affairs; a lover of arts and culture and an active volunteer in my free time...my goal is to communicate messages in a clear and creative way no matter how difficult or complex the task.

I provide technical assistance and trainings in the area of communication, this includes the drafting and evaluation of communication strategies, the development of campaigns, concepts for internal communications, media outreach activities, social media management and other communication tools (such as publications/newsletters, image films/story-telling videos or websites).

Before becoming self-employed, I gained extensive work experience in Interreg/Cohesion Policy programmes and projects (INTERACT; INTERREG IIIC) and developed or managed a variety of other EU projects while running the Strasbourg office of ALDA, the European Association for Local Democracy and support programme of the Council of Europe's Congress of Local and Regional Authorities (Europe for Citizens, Cards/IPA, Media, Culture/Creative Europe among others). I have also been involved as journalist/producer in numerous international audiovisual projects and raised important amounts of funding to put them into practice.