Cristóbal López

- Contribute to the administration and coordination of SLYCAN Trust program and project activities (conferences, meetings or webinars, and their recording), project planning, monitoring and reporting. - Document review to collect data and review methodologies related to loss and damage in the context of climate change. - Support in the synthesis of such information for the drafting of research material, newsletters based on defined templates and content.

- Documentary review to compile data and review methodologies related to loss and damage in the context of climate change. - Support in the synthesis of such information for the drafting of research material and other relevant activities. - Contribution to the planning and coordination of activities during conferences, meetings or webinars, as well as their subsequent recording.

- Monitoring emails and follow-up/complete administrative tasks. - Creation and updating of an organized database of documents (volunteer applications, checklists, and other informational materials). - Supporting in training and preparing volunteers for deployment.

Support the “Proposal of alternative slope stabilization options for 38 houses, combining bioengineering & conventional engineering techniques to ensure improved slope stability & a good cost-benefit ratio”: - Mapping biophysical data (geology, soil types, soil cover, slopes, rainfall, DEM & landslides susceptibility). - Cost-efficiency analysis with conventional engineering & bioengineering techniques (3 stabilization levels). - Drafting the report and Excel budget file with cost-efficiency analysis.

Support during the “Systematization and capitalization of lessons learned, challenges and best practices achieved by the Disaster Risk Reduction Program in Central America from SDC during the period 2000-2024”: - Review of more than 100 documents in Spanish, English, and French to extract orderly information for the systematization process. - Review and summary of part of the transcribed interviews. - Summary of beneficiaries’ number per project & data visualization.

Translations or review of translations from English articles into Spanish (4) and French (3).

Elaboration of a Quality Management System Guide (ISO's 9001:2015 standard) with audit forms, incident reports, basic procedures (communication, info. control, risks & opportunities identification, etc.) & other reporting formats (e.g., infrastructure status, plagues & rodent control, cleaning control). PRONESA imports & distributes industrial lubricants (Lubrication Engineers, Inc.-EEUU), filter suppliers & quality air compressor spare parts for customers in the food & industrial sectors.

Contribution to developing the Risk Management Index of Dipilto, Ocotal, Mozonte, and Somoto municipalities: - Interviews with local municipality authorities and institution representatives (24). - Literature review and data processing related to risk and disaster management in these municipalities. - Implementation of workshops (4) to present and validate results with stakeholders (72).

- “Sustainable Development” module (virtual) taught to 34 students. - “Hydrology” and “Fundamentals of Environmental Analysis” (virtual) modules taught to 31 civil engineering students and 35 students from multiple careers, respectively.

Bachelor’s thesis supervision for environmental engineering students (4).

Impact analysis for Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) measures from the “UCA - SDC Project”: - Survey application and analysis to assess community perceptions, as well as socio-economic and environmental indicators. - Development of an inventory of applied CCA measures in Ciudad Dario municipality. - Elaboration of thematic maps, as well as research reports.

Systematization of “UCA-SDC project’s” experiences: - Data collection on results obtained during education processes in DRR and CCA (2014 – 2017) and report writing. - Survey application to key actors and beneficiaries, as for data processing to elaborate a systematization report of the project's activities.

- Project supervision (planning, MEAL, knowledge & financial MGMT, communication strategy follow-up). - Drafting technical & operational reports. - Review consultant's reports, research & communication material. - Work in multidisciplinary & multigenerational teams at UCA. - Planning & follow-up DRR-CCA courses with local NGO “Fe y Alegría”. - Org. workshops, fieldwork & International Day for Disaster Reduction (2015-2017) with the Nicaraguan Red Cross & other local org. related to DRR-CCA in Nicaragua.

Drought and climate change effects in water resources and food safety in five communities of Ciudad Dario municipality, Matagalpa: - Survey application and data processing with SPSS. - Thematic maps production with ArcGIS. - Inventory of static water levels in community wells. - Report writing.

Thesis title: “Participatory Assessment of Nature-based Solutions to complement the Environmental Management of the Dipilto River Watershed, Nicaragua”.

Thesis title: “Participatory Assessment of Nature-based Solutions to complement the Environmental Management of the Dipilto River Watershed, Nicaragua”.

Research project: "Application of GIS and remote sensing for flood prone zones identification in La Tablazón micro-watershed (Dipilto municipality, Nicaragua)".

Thesis title: "Study of the effect of rainfall variability on the availability of water for human consumption in the municipality of Las Sabanas, Madriz (Nicaragua)".