Alumni

Fernando serves as the Program Manager for Land and Housing Justice Action in Haburas Foundation, Friends of the Earth East Timor. In this program, he takes responsibilities of monitoring and evaluating implementation of activities related to land and housing issues, providing policy brief to relevant government agency, and presenting the results from programs to stakeholders. His assignments are including providing training related to project management relates to risk management plan for the program, including mitigation of risk. Prior to this assignment, he was National Advisor for the Secretary of State for Youth and Sport and officer at Adolescent and Youth Development (AYP) at UNICEF. He holds certificate on Peace and Conflict Studies of Rotary International from Chulalangkorn University, Thailand and Master of Public Administration from Flinders University, Australia. He experienced in implementing projects and managing forum both in regional and international coverage.

Francisca da Costa Soares serves as Research Assistant for Oil Transparence division in Luta Hamutuk Institute, Dili, Timor-Leste, whose responsibilities include organizing the seminar, training and workshop, as well as has roles as fasilitators and moderator including monitoring and writing evaluation report. She has experiences in training related to extractive Industries, such as partisipate in Intership training / summer course with topic on "Petroleum Exploration" at faculty of Engineering, at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta Indonesia (2011), "Promoting Social Accountability in Extractive Industry Sector" organized by Luta Hamutuk fasilitated by Roslyta Arshad (Senior Project Associate, RWI), Emy Perez and Pamela Listania (Trainers-ANSA-EAP) (2012). She holds degree of Petroleum Management from Dili Institute o Technology (DIT), Timor-Leste.

Researcher on economic and natural resources and Good Government issues at La’o Hamutuk, Timor-Leste Institute for Development Monitor and Analysis. Founder of Ponta-Leste Watch, a local NGO for district development monitoring and advocacy in district of Lautem.

He has concern on extractive industry and revenue management issues for more than 6 years. He was participate on Summer Program " Leadership Management for Integrity on Policy and Advocacy" by Central European University in Budapest.

He is a coordinator of oil transparency division for Luta Hamutuk Institute. He design implementation plan for monitoring, and advocacy and research on transparency oil and gas issues. He also responsible for coordinating all monitoring and research activities on oil and gas issues.