BERNARDO REDONDO ROA IV

#79Dr6, 13th-15th Sts., Nazareth

Cagaayan de Oro City
9000 Philippines
+63 88 8511756; 922 980 4816
bernardoroa@hotmail.com; bernrroa@yahoo.com

PROFILE
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;
election-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 in various capacities as trainor, 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, he
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 Developments Participatory framework.

Mr. Roa passed the UN security courses and holds certificate in the following: 1) Basic Security Course
I; 2) Advance Security Course II; 3) Security Management Team Course.

EDUCATION and SELECTED RELEVANT TRAINING

1988-1989. Bachelor of Laws (Ll.B.), College of Law, Xavier University, Cagayan de Oro City.
1989. Computer Programming. University Computer Center, Liceo de Cagayan University,
Cagayan de Oro City.
1991. Master in Development Management. Graduate School, Liceo de Cagayan University,
Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines.
1977-1979. Post-Graduate Studies in Communication Arts. Loyola House of Studies, Ateneo de
Manila Campus, Quezon City, Philippines.
1975. BS Economics and AB Philosophy. Xavier University, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines.
2013. Value-Chain Methodology and Approach: A Community-based Enterprise Development.
International Labour Organization (UN ILO).
2008. Electoral Exercise: International Observation Mission. The Carter Center. Nepal.
2006. Cluster Approach and Systems: Early Recovery. United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP). Jogjakarta, Indonesia.
2003. Do-No-Harm/Local Capacities for Peace. German Development Service.
2000. Gender and Development. UNTAET Dili, East Timor.
1998. Conflict Transformation, Dialogue and Mediation. Mennonite University-USA
1999. Rural Development. National Rural Support Program-Pakistan (Grant by UNDP)
1999. Micro Finance/SME Development. Bangladesh: models of Grameen, BRAC and ASA

WORK HISTORY

August 3, 2015 Present. Development Alternatives, Inc. USAIDs ENGAGE (Enhancing

Governance, Accountability & Engagement) Project. Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP). Scope of
Work: Development of Annual Plans; Lead implementation of Annual Work Plan; Design and conduct
training for staff; Oversee all monitoring & assessment activities; Oversee recruitment and
deployment of short-term consultants; Monitor all administrative, financial, operational, and human
resource functions; Serve as Security Focal Person; Build & maintain relationships with stakeholders;
Assume duties of Chief of Party, as delegated; Other duties consistent with the overall focus of the
position.
May 25 June 08, 2015. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
(IFRC) and Philippine Red Cross (PRC). Team Leader, Final Evaluation of Bohol Earthquake
Response Operations. Recruited, oriented and trained project staff; Prepared Inception Report and
detailed work plan; Conducted data-collection and information gathering through interviews with Key
Informants and community-based Focus Group Discussions; Established networks with similarly
situated organizations - local and international; Written-up, presented and submitted evaluation
results; Facilitated lessons-learned workshops to present key evaluation findings to IFRC and partner
Philippine Red Cross, both at Headquarters and Bohol Chapter.

March 11 April 01, 2015. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
(IFRC) Philippines. Team Leader, Final Evaluation of Typhoon Bopha Project. Recruited, oriented
and trained project staff; Prepared Inception report and detailed work plan; Conducted data-collection
and information gathering through interviews with Key Informants and community-based Focus Group
Discussions; Established networks with similarly situated organizations - local and international;
Written-up, presented and submitted evaluation results; Facilitated lessons-learned workshops to
present key evaluation findings to IFRC and partner Philippine Red Cross.

January 2009 - Present. Alternative Bridge to Community Development (ab2cd, inc.),

Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines. Founder. vision and mission are expressed in the belief of the
possibility to create a social order that is based on the respect for the diversity of values and life
styles; on the refusal of any form of discrimination and on every person's right to fully participate in
the processes that influence her or his life; and, in its desire to provide services that will contribute to
the enhancement of the efficiency in assisting peoples in their communities and helping them to
improve the quality of their lives in the areas of peace building & conflict transformation, health,
environment, food security, protection for children, youth and other marginalized sectors, gender
equality, and people empowerment.

07 August 2014 15 December 2014. Action Against Hunger | ACF-Spain / DFID. Consortium
Coordinator (ACF-Spain IOM PLAN International), Zamboanga City. Coordinated with consortium
members to ensure the best possible response for the affected populations of Zamboanga Armed
Conflict, particularly in WASH, Public Health Nutrition, Social Protection for Children and Women,
Shelter, and Livelihoods (Cash for Work; labor surveys with IDPs); Coordinate ECHO proposal
induction / implementation / reporting with INGOs involved in the consortium and to monitor all
program activities/results implemented within the time frame in coordination and as agreed with the
consortium members; represent the consortium in national, regional and local fora and
development/humanitarian clusters; monitoring, evaluation & learning; organize meetings.

April 2013 March 2014. UN-International Labour Organization, Philippines. National

Programme Coordinator. Local Economic Development through Enhanced Governance and Grassroots
Empowerment; Capacity-Building of partner organization; Value-Chain Diagnosis and Programming;
Responsible for coordinating the planning, budgeting, human resource development, implementation,
and monitoring and evaluation of programme outputs and impact at selected conflict-affected
communities; conducted research, assessments and transfer of technologies to programme staff and
volunteers, networking; participated in the Mindanao Humanitarian Response Co-Leads, Safety and
Security, and protection and early recovery clusters.

March June, 2012. Caritas Switzerland, Philippines. Team Leader, Monitoring & Evaluation
(Typhoon Washi: Cities of Iligan/Lanao del Norte, Cagayan de Oro/Misamis Oriental and
Dumaguete/Negros Oriental). Recruited, oriented and trained project staff. Conducted data collection
and gathering through interviews with Key Informants and community-based Focus Group
Discussions; established networks with similarly situated organizations-both local and international;
write-up, presentation and submission of monitoring & evaluation results.

January 2010 March 2013. Grassroots Democracy Institute & Resource Center, Inc., Iligan
City, Philippines. Chairman and Chief Operating Officer. Initiated programme in Life-Skills
Development Training (TVET) for out-of-school youths, women caught in very difficult circumstances,
and other marginalized sectors, for employability and micro-entrepreneurship; created the school of
living cultural tradition for children and adults in the tri-people areas (Muslims, IPs, and Other
Settlers) in several strategic locations in the hinterland communities of Northwestern Mindanao;
established the first-ever private-public partnership in Iligan City to establish the Center for
Development Education that catered to the various development education needs of people in
neglected communities (adult-literacy; agri-based initiatives (contour farming and livestocks); seed
propagation; cage-fishing; communal gardening; construction works: carpentry, plumbing, masonry,
gas & arc welding, electrical wiring and installations; traditional and alternative community-based
health care; and, others.

June 2010. GDIRC-MuslimEhelfen Capacity Assessment/Evaluation, Philippines. Team

Leader. Data collection and information gathering through needs mapping, questionnaires, interviews
with Key Informants, and Focus Group Discussions at community level to determine match and
suitability of objectives and approaches to start a project by GDIRC- Philippines and MuslimEhelfen
Germany); established networks; write-up, presentation and submission of results.

January February 2010. DARA, Madrid, Spain. Philippines. Real-Time Evaluation Specialist.
Conducted interviews with Key Informants composed of representatives of International Donor
Agencies, UN System, World Bank, among others, on the effects of 2009 Twin-Typhoons (Ketsana and
Pirmi); help in preparing the matrix to incorporate all data gathered and information collected; shared
inputs in the drafting of final evaluation report.

January December 2009. Southern Philippines Development Authority (SPDA). Director of

Operations. Formulated and designed operations policy; acted as financial comptroller of all internally-
initiated projects, including joint ventures, technical cooperation, and procurement/logistics;
conducted operations audit, monitoring, evaluation and learning; regularly visited projects and
updated plans and programs; networking; programme development; representation; overseen the
establishment of a peace and development institute as a joint undertaking by and between the Moro
National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the local government units-at-interest; capacity-building of
project staff and volunteers at community level.

June December 2008. UNDP Uganda. Programme Coordinator and Cluster Lead for Early
Recovery Cluster (governance, infrastructure, livelihoods, and others). Responsible for the planning,
formulation, implementation, and monitoring of the Clusters integrated early recovery response plans
for Northern Uganda in the areas of governance, infrastructure, livelihoods, including initiatives in
Disaster Risk Reduction, Mine Action, HIV/AIDS, and IDPs; conducted assessment, monitoring and
evaluation of initiatives in the project areas; called for and coordinated cluster meetings attended by
cluster members composed of international and local organizations;

n.b. was seconded to the Office of the Prime Minister to provide technical support advisory functions
related to the implementation of the Peace, Recovery and Development Plan (PRDP) for Northern
Uganda)

Apr 1- 16, 2008. The Carter Center Nepal. International Election Observer. an international
observer to the Constituents Assembly Elections, with posting in Makwanpur District.

Nov 2006 June 2008. Pailig Development Foundation, Inc. Philippines. Head of
Programme/Managing Director. Provide leadership and management of existing projects with the Asia
Foundation/USAID (participatory governance), Ecosolidar (environmental protection/poverty
alleviation/sustainable agriculture), Bread for the World (peace building/livelihood/micro-finance/HIV-
AIDS), German Development Cooperation (Conflict Transformation), MinCode/TAF/USAID (transparent
governance); Direct Relief International (health).

Consultant for Environment and Economic Development. Municipality of Diplahan, Province of

Zamboanga Sibugay. Advisor to the Municipal Mayor and the Municipal Council on directions relative
to issues and concerns on Environment, particularly on multinational/corporate mining, logging and
Economic in Development sustainable livelihoods and food security.

November December 2007. Club de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. Expert in Monitoring and
Evaluation. Conducted interviews with Key Informants and Focus Group Discussions at communities;
attended national, regional and local fora on matters of national unity; networked with NGOs, church
groups, political movements, and civil society grups to provide framework for Club de Madrids
programming.
June December 2006. UN Coordination Center, Jogjakarta, Indonesia. Technical Advisor and
Cluster Lead for Early Recovery (Transitional Shelter and Non-Agri Livelihoods). provided technical
assistance to the UN Area Coordination Office in coordinating UN initiatives for early recovery in the
earthquake affected region of the Jogjakarta/Centra Java; networked with local authorities, the
national planning office (BAPPEDA), civil society & other UN agencies; convened, organized &
facilitated coordination and information sharing with cluster members composed of international and
local NGOs; monitoring and evaluation; capacity-building of local partners; initiated and organized the
un-precedented community development and livelihoods summit which identified challenges and
filled-in gaps on the aforementioned areas, including those of the affected youths.

October 2005 May 2006. ACDI/VOCA, Indonesia. Team Leader, Tsunami Economic Recovery in
Aceh Besar, NAD, Indonesia. strengthened government capacity to perform needs assessment of, and
service delivery to, tsunami-affected small and medium enterprises; empowered affected small and
micro enterprises in Aceh Besar by providing requisite supplies and equipment to restart their
business operations through logistics procurement and delivery, networking, resource mobilization,
capacity-building; recruitment of staff, orientation, training and deployment; human resource
development, admin and financial oversight and project management; manages, supervises and
directs international and local staff; monitoring and evaluation; reporting and advocacy of policy
formulation for reform; organizing a start-up project operation; networking with government
agencies-at interest, private agencies, village officials; initiated logistics procurement reforms through
transparent bidding of supplies and equipment; represented ACDI/VOCA in all project affairs.

February September 2005. International Medical Corps, Indonesia. Project Manager,

Tsunami Response. Integrated livelihoods, microfinance & community development into IMCs tsunami
response in the whole of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam; initiated a fast-tracking needs-analysis
mechanism through the conduct of a participatory community-based early recovery, rehabilitation and
development summits in various locations that was attended by majority of Village Chiefs; recruited,
oriented, trained, and deployed 14 local staffs; conducted capacity-building interventions in
communities and coordinated efforts of area managers; represented related IMC in cluster meetings;
established networks with: University in Banda Aceh (with a Memorandum of Agreement); the BRR;
and, the Chamber of Commerce and Trade.

September 2001 - Jun 2004. Iligan Investment Promotions Center, Iligan City. Executive
Director. Investment/Trade Promotions; Capacity Building for Livelihoods; Networking and Resource
Mobilization; Organizing Trade Missions, Exhibitions and Fairs; Micro, Small & Medium Enterprise
(MSMEs) Development; organized the first-ever Global Compact in Mindanao.

Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation of Iligan City, Inc. Consultant. Managing
projects and programmes, including the USAID supported Transparent and Accountable Governance
and the CIDA-funded local economic development; on Tourism, Bio-Diversity, Environment and Micro-
Finance; Networking; Transparent Accountable Governance; Benchmarking & Continuous
Improvement; City Development Strategies; Participatory Development Planning; Franchising Road-
show; Chamber Management and Development; Business Matching and Business Recovery.

August 1999 September 2001. United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor
(UNTAET). District Field Officer, Alas, Manufahi District. Responsible and led post-conflict resolutions
and interventions on governance and public administration; organized district programme
development and management; mobilized resources and administered sub-district funds; initiated
community organizing and social marketing; networked with other UN agencies and international
donors (USAID, JICA, UNFPA, etc.); monitoring & evaluation of population for the purpose of preparing
for the scheduled registration of voters and national elections; established rural credit; formation of
functional village organizations; capacity-building; monitoring & evaluation; initiated psycho-social
activities for the sub-district population also in preparation for other social activities (other than
registration and elections) through sports, literacy sessions, and group dynamics.

February 1997 - August 1999. UN Multi-Donor Programme (PHI/97/021), Mindanao,

Philippines. Team Leader. Led the total area programme development and management of post-
conflict resolutions; financial management and fund administration; networked with private and public
institutions, including foreign embassies in Manila for resource mobilization; initiated participatory
community organizing; conducted building of capacities, confidence and capabilities at community
level; formulated and designed micro-credit and community savings mobilization; conducted
participatory monitoring and evaluation; established donor relations/reporting responsibilities;
administrative/financial supervision and management.

1987-1990 Task Force on Street Children, (UNICEF-funded project), Philippines. Chairperson.

networking with national government agencies, local government units, private sector; programme
development and management; capacity-building; learning & knowledge management concept design
and development; implementation of education-for-all by bringing the school into the streets; skills
development and capacity build-up; advocacy management, health interventions reproductive
health, HIV/AID

1984-1991. Local Government Unit of Cagayan de Oro City. City Administrator. As the City
Manager, tasked to efficiently and effectively deliver the basic services to the Citys population of close
to 1-million; coordinated the day-to-day operation of 27 offices and agencies of the local government
in all facets of local governance (health, infrastructure/engineering, solid-waste management, financial
management, economic enterprise, water & sanitation, education, etc.); implemented transparency
and accountability in local governance; capacity-building of staff and village officials; initiated and
created the Barangay (village) Assistance Team that responded, with haste, to all needs of the
barangays (lighting facilities, water supply, health epidemic, disasters, peace and order, immediate
road repairs, and several others); represented the City Mayor in social activities with delegated
authority; convened the Peace and Order Council, the Bidding and Procurement Council, City Disaster
Risk Management Council, City Development Council, and other related councils;

Head of the Office of the City Social Services and Development (concurrently with City Administrator).
Responsible and led the office in all relief, rehabilitation and response to all emergencies, both natural
and man-made; designed a capacity-building module for barangay leaders in disaster management
through comprehensive contingency planning and organized clusters to coordinated responses to
disasters; organized the public-private consortium led Task Force on Street Children and other
Children caught in very difficult circumstances.

Chairperson, Economic Development Committee, City Development Council and City Representative to
the Regional Development Council, Region 10.

With the Private Sector:

1991 1994. Asian-Park Development Industries Corporation. Managing Director

1994 1995. Sales and Marketing, Cosmos Bottling Corporation, Cebu Plant, Pinagsabungan, Cebu
City. Management Consultant/Sales & Marketing Manager
1995 1997. Management Consultant, Tomawis Group of Companies, Islamic City of Marawi.
Management Consultant.
1981 1984. PEPSICO International, Northern Mindanao Region (with oversight on two major
manufacturing plants). Regional Manager
1979 1981. Coca-Cola International, Ilocos Region/Cagayan Valley Region. Regional Sales &
Marketing Manager
1978 1979. Mead-Johnson Philippines, Inc., Central Luzon. Territory Manager Pediatric Division

With the Academe:

1971 1975. Ateneo Catechetical Instructions League, Xavier University. Chairperson and
Classroom Instructor Humanities/Religious Studies, Misamis Oriental General
Comprehensive High School, Cagayan de Oro City.
1977 1979. St. Bridgets School, Quezon City. Instructor Development Economics and English
2004 2005. SYNERGEIA Education Foundation, Inc., Ateneo Graduate School, Rockwell Center,
Makati City, Philippines. Area Consultant (research and education reform project for the
Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao or ARMM)

(n.b. Mr. Roa joined the Jesuit Religious Order, the Society of Jesus, and went through the formation; he took the
religious vows and went to Philosophy and Theology studies until his departure; and, while a Jesuit, he also studied
Communication Arts and taught English at the St. Bridgets School of Quezon City; . he was featured in IMCs e-
Newsletter, June 2005 issue; and, again by UNs Reliefweb, July 2005 issue, which may be downloaded at this site,
(http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6EB3X5?OpenDocument).