Roberto has more than 25 years of experience as a communication professional and senior trainer and consultant for NGOs, cooperatives, communities, for local government units, donor agencies and for small businesses.

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As trainer-consultant, he has developed his expertise in the fields of enterprise development, strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation, financial management, value-links, and social marketing.

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Roberto has carried out assignments in the Philippines, Afghanistan, Australia, East Timor, Fiji, Switzerland, Lebanon, Iraq, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Vietnam for various clients: GIZ, DKA-Austria, UN-IOM, BftW, ICRC, IFRC, JICA, WB and the EU.

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Roberto is co-founder of the NGO Management School in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2008-2009, he has conducted the first series of NGO management courses in Geneva with participants coming from both north and south NGOs and donor agencies. 

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His previous work with the leading national NGO in Mindanao honed his competence in the areas of institution building along with the concerns for enterprise development. Being a senior international trainer and adviser of CEFE, he has further exposed himself in the rigorous approach of adult learning in the conduct of training and group facilitation.

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Roberto is also involved in the conduct of external evaluation of NGOs and donors agencies with criteria based on results-based management, logical framework and the widely accepted DAC criteria on relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability.

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He continues to update himself with new technologies in development work and training, such as value chain and local/regional enterprise development training, and more recently, business continuity planning and management.