Alexandra Machado

Senior Officer, WASH in Public Health, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

Alexandra Machado, Bd Engineer / master degree in Water/ IFRC WASH in Public Health Over 17 years of combined experience in Africa, Southern America and Asia, where she has gain a variety of skills in the areas of project identification, appraisal and approval, delivery of technical assistance, as well as monitoring and reporting of development projects through different RCRC national societies and other non-governmental organization (NGO) in the fields of WASH, community health and rural development. On the technical side, she has extensive experience in WASH programs and projects in rural, per urban and urban contexts in both domains Hardware and Software. Her work experience is not only in long- term development programs but also in the emergency and post emergency contexts. She coordinated emergencies response operations and assisted in the facilitation, organisation and adaptation of WASH emergency preparedness & response trainings and equipment’s. In her current position, Alexandra's main objective is to provide technical support to RCRC national societies to strengthen their capacities, strategies and activity plans in response, preparedness, recovery and development in water, sanitation and hygiene.

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