merlyn johanna hurtado
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Agriculture engineer, master in Strategies and Technologies for Development. Experience in international cooperation projects and evaluations with communities and multilateral organizations in Latin America and Spain. I enjoy applying co-creation methodologies, quantitative and qualitative analysis. My conviction is always to empower communities and lead sustainable and fair development. 💚 Focus on solving problems combining science, technology and local knowledge.---------------------💚 🚀 In a journey to become a Data Scientist for environment, food systems and collective intelligence 🚀
merlyn johanna's Bio



Professional experience


2020. Project Evaluation officer in photovoltaic Energy Projects. ItdUPM. Spain

Innovation and Technology For Development Center -Itd-UPM-

✔️ Sustainablity assessment of Solar projets financed by Ministry of Energy
✔️ Recommendations to the public policy of Energy in Colombia


2018-2020. Leader Technologies for Human Development. SIC4Change. Spain

Social Innovation Cluster for Change

✔️ Co-creation of technology-based solutions for women empowerment in indigenous territories
✔️ Creation of "Enreda Challenge" to improve the young employment in Spain
✔️ Use of participatory methodologies and qualitative analysis


2016-2017. Monitoring and Evaluation Officer. FAO-UN

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

✔️ Project Monitoring with result-based approach for 1.500 small-holder farmers
✔️ Design data collection tools, indicators, baseline and methodologies
✔️ Analysis on food security, economic and social inclusion


2010-2015. Project Manager. OXFAM International. Colombia

Parnertship with Cxhab Wala Kiwe (Nasa Indigenous People)

✔️ Project coordination in 5 cities, 7 indigenous territories with 1.254 family farmers 
✔️ Creation of 8 local Fair markets, value chains and Food Festivals in 4 years in a row
✔️ Create and mantain parnertships with public and private sector


2007-2008. Environmental consultant. Colombia

District University Francisco José de Caldas

✔️ Develoving a technical program in water conservation linking public high-schools with the public university
✔️ Training youth on soil & water conservation techniques and agroecology



Volunteer work 

📈 2021. Author in the Asessment of Biological diversity and Ecosystem services managment in the Amazon Region- Chapter 5. Interactions between nature and society, present and future
📢 2019. In COP25, broadcasting the Indigenous Women´s participation to the community radios in Guatemala/Colombia
🎹 2016-2019. Cofounder & Director of SamanFest Festival for young creators from armed-conflict areas in Colombia
🤝 2010-2014. Policy Advocacy Strategist in the Network of Family farming AIAF+10 at National and International Level


Fun facts

💃 I dance salsa because I'm from Cali (Worlwide Capital of Salsa) BUT I ❤️ Techno 😎
🌎 I am traveling the rural France helping to increase sales of the grape farmers 🍷(apply to Barley+Hops+Yeast farmers)




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What I've been doing at CRI 👇

Immersive Virtual Reality in Our Reality
Special talk session featuring VR/AR as a platform shaping new frontiers of science and education
WOMER: Crowdsourcing data solution to make visible the climate actions of indigenous women
Co-design a crowdsourcing data solutions with the indigenous women of Nasa People to make visible their traditional knowledge in climate actions
CHALLENGE HUB. Digital transformation towards sustainable food systems.
Analyse the digital technologies used in the transformation towards sustainable food and agriculture systems
Creating the Guidelines of Digital Actions for Social Impact. Combining Content Analysis, Text mining and Semantic Search
Use text analysis and text mining of stakeholder opinion, scientific articles and reports to built guidelines for co-creation of digital actions that respond to social challenges
Peer learning in the digital era: Are we connected with others for learning?
Explore peer learning experience in the digital era
Learning Planet Institute Elis