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C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E

PERSONAL DETAILS Name VALENTINA UCCELLI

Present address CALLE AUSTRIA 2258 10 A- BUENOS AIRES (ARGENTINA) RESIDENT

Telephone Italy: +39 346 7366297 Cell. +54 9 (11) 6150 2414

E-mail valebirds@gmail.com valentinauccelli@icei.it ar.linkedin.com/pub/valentina-uccelli/33/536/474/

Nationality Italian Place and Date of birth. PREMOSELLO CHIOVENDA (VB), ITALY. 30/10/1978.

EMPLOYMENT RECORD

• Period March 1, 2015- June 30, 2015 • Name of employer and duty

station Mrs. Sandra Cesilini- Independent Consultant ARGENTINA

• Type of business Adaptation to CC • Exact title of the post. Independent Consultant • Description of my duties External Consultant for the Third National Communication on Climate Change (Argentina):

Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystemic Services providing benefits to people in the region of Patagonia.

• Period November 1, 2014- February 28, 2015 • Name of employer and duty

station Fundación ArgenINTA/ Unit for Rural Change- UCAR (Ministry of Agriculture,

Livestock and Fisheries)- ARGENTINA • Type of business M&E, Rural Development • Exact title of the post. Mid Term Review of IDB loan 2573/OC-AR 1 (PROSAP- Provincial Agricultural Services

Program) • Description of my duties Identification, analysis and evaluation of the achievements of the program; b) progress in its

implementation; c) identifying risks and preventive measures thereof; d) existence of management problems; e) implementation mechanisms and institutional organization; f) compliance with contractual terms; g) revision of evaluation matrix.

• Collecting, reviewing and analysing data of the Programme and its specific projects financed by the IDB loan 2573/OC-AR-1;

• Methodology design; • Identification, analysis and evaluation of physical and financial biases; • Developing tools for data collection (interviews) • Final report

• Period April 1, 2014- August 31, 2014 • Name of employer and duty

station ICEI (International Institute for Economic Cooperation)

• Type of business International Cooperation for Sustainable Development

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• Exact title of the post. Consultant project OSS-LAC: “One Stop Shops”-Sustainable reintegration for Latin-American vulnerable returnees (donor: UE; solicitant: Fundacion Iberoamericana; partner: OEI- Organizacion de Estados Iberoamericanos)

• Description of my duties § Financial, Operational and Economic planning § General management § Monitoring of activities

• Period October 1, 2012 – December 31, 2013 • Name of employer and duty

station ICEI (International Institute for Economic Cooperation) – Milan

• Type of business International Cooperation for Sustainable Development • Exact title of the post. Executive Director • Description of my duties § Financial, Strategic and Economic planning

§ Business and projects management § HHRR management § Supervision and internal M&E of projects worldwide (Bosnia y Herzegovina, Brazil,

Argentina, Mozambique, Sri Lanka) § Fund raising and relationships with sponsors, private and public donors

• Period May 2012 – October 2012 • Name of employer and duty

station ICEI (International Institute for Economic Cooperation) – Milan

• Type of business International Cooperation for Sustainable Development • Exact title of the post. Consultant to the General Management • Description of my duties § Supervision of Financial and Economic planning

§ Support to Organisational and HHRR reengineering and design of organisational ToRs

• Period February 4, 2010 – September 15, 2011 • Name of employer and duty

station ICEI (International Institute for Economic Cooperation) – City of Buenos Aires

• Type of business International Cooperation for Sustainable Development • Exact title of the post. Project Manager • Description of my duties § Management and M&E for the project “Strengthening of Small Farmers

Organizations in Argentina: support to their competitive integration in local and international markets”, co-financed by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

§ Personnel Recruitment and HHRR management; § Institutional relationships; § Financial and Operational Planning and Control, Monitoring and reporting; § Design of M&E system, baselines and indicators; § Feasibility studies.

• Period September 2009-January 2010 • Name of employer and duty

station ALEKOSLAB Cooperative - Milan

• Type of business Environmental education on Climate Change and Renewable Energies. • Exact title of the post. Consultant • Description of my duties § Financial Planning, control, Monitoring & Evaluation and reporting

§ Project design § Capacity building on PCM

• Period 1st March 2008 – 30th June 2009 • Name of employer and duty

station ICEI (International Institute for Economic Cooperation) –

Rosario (Argentina) • Type of business International Cooperation for Sustainable Development

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• Exact title of the post. Project Manager • Description of my duties § Management and M&E for the project “Consolidation of the Urban Agriculture

Programme in the Municipality of Rosario: a social and productive strategy based on socio-economic inclusion to fight against poverty”, co-financed by Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ICEI.

§ Personnel Recruitment and HHRR management; § Institutional relationships; § Financial and Operational Planning and Control, Monitoring and reporting; § Design of M&E system, baselines and indicators; § Feasibility studies.

• Period 15th January-28th February 2008

• Name of employer and duty station ICEI (International Institute for Economic Cooperation) – Nazca (PERU) • Type of business International Cooperation for Sustainable Development

• Exact title of the post. Feasibility Study Consultant • Description of my duties § Feasibility Study and project design in Nazca (Peru) on

§ Sustainable Tourism and support to small farmers through promotion of agro-ecology.

§ Project submitted to MAE (Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

• Period 7th January 2007 – 28th September 2007 • Name of employer and duty station UNDESA Fellow at UNDP/UNCDF. Maputo, MOZAMBIQUE

• Type of business Local Development and Decentralization/International Organization • Exact title of the post. Fellow P.O.

• Description of my duties Support to UNCDF P.O to carry out projects in the main UNCDF practice areas: 1) Decentralization and Local Economic Development: National Decentralized Planning and Financing Programme (PPFD) and support to reactivate National ADELs platform. 2) Micro-finance “Building Inclusive Financial Sectors - BIFSA” Relationships with National and International counterparts

§ Support to internal M&E missions and reporting § Support to organization of national and International

o Seminars on LED and Microfinance § Support to ONE UN Initiative § Support to personnel recruitment (local experts and consultants)

Supervisors: Mr. Jacob Massuanganhe Mrs. Fatima Amade: fatima.amade@undp.org

• Period January 2004 –November 2006 • Name of employer ICEI (International Institute for Economic Cooperation)- sede MERCOSUR.

Julián Alvarez 1988- 1425. City of Buenos Aires- Argentina. • Type of business Non-Governmental Organization.

• Exact title of the post. Project designer- Consultant • Description of my duties § Feasibility Studies

§ Project design for private and institutional donors (FAO, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, CE, IAF, UNIFEM, private foundations) for Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, and Uruguay.

§ Project manager for the bi – national project: “Sementes- Semillas: strengthening of the sector of the organic agriculture as an integrated strategy of local development and poverty alleviation in Misiones (Argentina) and Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) ".

• Period January-September 2003. • Name of employer Associazione Casa della Resistenza.

Via Turati 9, Verbania. Italia

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• Type of business Non- profit Organization • Exact title of the post. Administrative.

• Description of my duties § Administrative duties § Took part to the Project "Living the Conflict II. Narrations of places, of histories", a

Seminar on the cohabitation management in places in conflict whose target were NGO’s members and students coming from Serbia and Kosovo and to the project “Sentiero Chiovini, historical and naturalistic tour of the places of the Resistance in Italy”

EDUCATION

• Period. 1st April 2014- • University or equivalent UNTREF- Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero- Buenos Aires.

Master in policy and management of international migrations • Main courses of study. International migration law; Theory of international migration; Human Rights and Migration.

Public Policy and Management applied to international migration; Immigration policy and governance; Policy and management of international labour migration; Policy and governance of refugees.

• Degrees and academic distinctions obtained.

On-going.

• Period. September 2003- December 2005. • University or equivalent Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (sede Iberoamericana de La Rabida), Huelva-

España. Master in Development Economics for Latin America • Main courses of study. Development Economics, Latin America history and politics, Sociology.

Thesis: “Social capital, NGOs and rural development: their role in agroecologic projects” • Degrees and academic distinctions

obtained. Magister in Development Economics.

• Period. September 1998- march 2003. • University or equivalent ALMA MATER STUDIORUM University of Bologna – Italy. Faculty of Economics. • Main courses of study. Macro and microeconomics, Development economics, mathematics, Statistics.

Thesis: “From Convertibility to crisis: stabilization programs carried out in Argentina and their effects on income distribution”. University of Belgrano- Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Extra Socrates Exchange Program. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Erasmus Exchange program

• Degrees and academic distinctions obtained.

Bachelor degree in Economics.

• Period. September 1992- July 1997. • University or equivalent Liceo Classico l. Galois- Verbania • Main courses of study. Classical languages, literature, philosophy.

• Degrees obtained. Diploma di maturità

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ADDITIONAL SKILLS AND RELEVANT FACTS

ñ October 8th, 2014 – Seminar on Statelessness – Directorate of Human Rights of the Ministry of Human Rights, Buenos Aires - ARGENTINA

ñ 2-7 July 2012- Training "Leadership and management for Humanitarian Action" - Centre for International Humanitarian Cooperation/ Institute for International Humanitarian Affairs, New York. USA

ñ April – July 2012- Italian-English translations for CIPMO “Italian Centre for Peace in the Middle East”, Milan. ITALY

ñ 9-12 May 2012 – Election Observation Course for Short Term Observers (STOs) – Scuola Superiore S.Anna- Pisa. ITALY

ñ 7-9 March 2012- M&E for Development and Cooperation projects- “NGO Ricerca e Cooperazione”, Rome. ITALY

ñ July-December 2010 – Basic Course of Russian language – Language School “Esperanto”, Buenos Aires. ARGENTINA

ñ Febbraio 2010 - E-learning course in translation of literary texts - “Langue et Parole - Traduzioni e Servizi Linguistici”. Online.

ñ 3-8 December 2006 – UN Fellows Workshop. Tools for Development Cooperation – UNSCC – United Nations System Staff College, Turin. ITALY

LANGUAGES (EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE)

MOTHER TONGUE ITALIAN OTHER LANGUAGES

COMPUTER SKILLS

§ Office Package: excellent. § Linux, Ubuntu § Software de contabilidad Gescon, Ginko

DRIVING LICENCE . Driving licence “B” (for cars).

I certify that the information above is true, complete and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. I fully authorize the treatment of my personal data according to the Italian Law 675/96. June 30, 2015. Valentina Uccelli.

Understanding Speaking WritingListening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production

English C1 Advanced C2 Proficient C1 Advanced C2 Proficient C2 ProficientSpanish C2 Proficient C2 Proficient C2 Proficient C2 Proficient C2 ProficientPortuguese C1 Advanced C2 Proficient C1 Advanced C1 Advanced B2 IntermediateFrench B2 Intermediate C1 Advanced B1 Intermediate B2 Intermediate B1 Intermediate