yanina [user:field_middlename] kowszyk

yanina kowszyk

Researcher
InnovacionAL
Espagne

Research affiliate of University of Groningen (Netherlands) and University of Barcelona (Spain) in social and environmental conflicts and monitoring and evaluation of social impacts. She has 18 years’ experience in the fields of project management and monitoring, sustainability, human rights and civil society strengthening in emerging markets, working with different organizations mainly in Latin America.

During 2011-2013 she was the director of a training program within Al Invest IV and GIZ designed for SME and business associations. Afterwards, during 2014-2015 she was in charge of creating a public policy baseline and a roadmap related to CSR in 33 countries in Latin America and 6 in Europe. The policy paper was finally presented in the Brussels UE- CELAC Summit and the Euro-Lat Parliament in 2015. In 2016, she wrote a Stand Alone project, including an Action Fiche and a log-frame, for the European Commission to fund activities in eight countries in Latin America in Human Rights and Business.

Since 2008 the expert has implemented assignments related to CSR, evaluation & monitoring, human rights, and sustainability in Belgium, Check Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Rumania, Spain, Australia, Thailand, USA, Canada, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela.

She was a teacher assistant in sustainable development, including communication policies, and poverty alleviation strategies in five universities in Chile and produces research papers for different international organizations aiming raising awareness on these issues across Latin-America