years of professional experience as development practitioner countrywide focusing on integrated socio-economic development and governance nexus. Specifically, my skills cover governance of natural resources, land use rights, local organizations’ governance, project management, capacity building for community participation and conflict management on the benefits from natural resources/conservation. Solid stakeholder engagement activity supporting and building the capacity of Community Based Organization (CBOs), Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to liaise with ministries of Land and Environment and Provincial Directorates of Land and Environment in Nampula, Niassa, Cabo Delgado, Zambezia and Tete, private sector in the extractive industry as well as the Ministry of Education and donor community. A well-rooted experience in socio-economic development, Mozambique public policies, management of projects and personnel. Profound Africa context knowledge on socioeconomic and development policies, violent conflicts (Zambezi Valley and Northern Mozambique), and their impact in the rights of children to education, health, water, and families; transparency, governance, and corruption; MDGs and SDGs. Conversant with rights-based approaches, project results-based management frameworks and work with UN agencies in Mozambique and East Timor (UNDP, UNV and WFP). These have provided a well-grounded professional experience and knowledge to understand and perform my duties as Manager in Economic Governance at the USAID SPEED, as Programme Policy Officer at WFP in supporting PRONAE implementation by MINEDH, which led me to specialize in governance and decentralization in support of education development policies; Principal Advisor to Rio Tinto Coal Mining; evidence-based advocacy for the country leaderships to implement education socio-development policies with an inclusive and gender-responsiveness approaches to ensure that children have access to education, health and all related