Country Experience: Argentina, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinée Conakry, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal.
Manel is a specialist in community engagement. He has more than 15 years’ experience, including more than over 7 years working in low-income countries and fragile states. His experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post emergency planning and long-term development.
Manel has worked for several Africa-focused organisations in community engagement on public health, WASH, migrations and livelihood projects. He collaborates as associated lecturer in Development and Humanitarian Studies at Universitat Oberta deCatalunya.
Manel holds a Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and received an Open Source Programming Master’s Degree from the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) for his thesis onData Revolution, Cooperation and Open Source: Implementation of Platforms Based on Open Source for the Management of the Municipal Cadastre in the Cities of Manihça, Inhambane and Maxixé (Mozambique).
In addition to anthropology, Manel holds postgraduate studies inEngineering Applications for Human Development (UOC), inEngineering and Humanitarian Aid (UOC)and inCommunication for Peace (UAB). He has a higher-level training cycle on Computer Systems Programming and he is a Chartered Catalan Association of Anthropology Professionals.