Erica Favretti

 Cross-sector, agile, and innovative international management, operations, and logistics professional with 18+ years in multi-million-dollar program design and implementation with issue fluency in WASH, emergency response, LMI economic development, child protection, public health, nutrition, governance, MEAL, and advocacy across remote, hostile, high-risk, and/or fragile geographic locations.  Diplomatic and effective interlocutor amongst multilaterals (USAID, DFID, ECHO), researchers, government agencies/ministries, NGOs (Save the Children, FHI360, Mercy Corps), CSOs, humanitarian responders, security forces, academia, IDPs, refugees and other vulnerable populations with expertise distilling operational and programmatic complexities and cross-cultural sensitivities – from HQ to the field.  Extensive experience leading teams, trainees, and technical partners with an outcome focused approach that incorporates equity for marginalized communities, capacity building, knowledge sharing, and identification of benchmarks, milestones, and needed course corrections to build trust, accountability, resiliency, and sustainability.  Countries of Work/Program Experience: Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Nepal, Philippines, Senegal, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tajikistan, Uganda; languages: Italian (fluent), English (fluent), French (excellent), Spanish (basic).