Mr. Roa brings with him years of hands-on experience in humanitarian and development management practice. He had provided technical advisory, management and coordination, development programming, and disaster risk management, particularly for early recovery initiatives in post-conflict/calamity setting, including value chains, setting up of emergency/transitional shelter, livelihoods, governance, infrastructure, and community health structures. He can bring into the job his years of experience as Team Leader to post-conflict related work in the areas of transformation, mediation and dialogue; relief and rehabilitation; capacity building; reintegration of IDPs; security; programming-related monitoring & evaluation. Since 1994, he has been involved in economic development interventions, including public-private cooperation; corporate social responsibility; community and institution development work, inclusion mechanisms for vulnerable population including people with special needs, out-of-school youths, victims of gender-based violence, in various capacities as trainer, researcher, project manager and coordinator, and on-site coach for local government units, peoples organizations, Indigenous Peoples, Muslim Communities, Civil Society Organizations, International Donor Communities; and, has years of hands-on experience in coordinating and managing participatory micro-finance, and micro, small and medium entrepreneurship development programme as part and parcel to a Sustainable Integrated Area Development’s Participatory framework.