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Francisco Guevara Hernández Team Leader Mexico francisco.guevara@picoteam.org |
Francisco is particularly interested in the strengthening of peoples’ capacities at the grassroots and institutional levels as crucial steps towards sustainable rural development. He focuses on leading initiatives for building transparent leaderships; building effective interdisciplinary teams and horizontal communication channels; and facilitating local participatory innovation processes. He owns long-term experience with the Rockefeller Foundation in Latin America, particularly in Mexico, as advisor of projects and programmes focussing on applied research and implementation of participatory approaches for the sustainable management of natural resources. Francisco has also performed as facilitator on international events on research and development (R&D) in Brazil, Honduras, Cuba, Costa Rica, Philippines, Indonesia, Kenya, Uganda, UK, U.S.A, Denmark and the Netherlands. Since 2000 he got involved in research and lecturing at the University of Chapingo and is currently guest lecturer at the University of Chiapas-Villaflores, Mexico. Francisco is also in charge of a national Mexican NGO “Red de Estudios para el Desarrollo Rural – RED A. C.“ (Network for Rural Development Studies), working on participatory training towards the building and strengthening of local capacities on sustainable rural development, based upon the facilitation of local processes for change. He joined PICOTEAM in 2006 as national team leader for Mexico. Presently he is also conducting action-research in Mexico and Cuba with a focus on constructivist and empirical perspectives among other things, looking for the framing of complementary research methods and the bridging of Development and Science. Francisco holds and B.Sc. in Agroecology from Chapingo University and a M.Sc. on plant eco-physiology from the Colegio de Postgraduados, Montecillos, both in Mexico. Due to his broad experience on capacity development of rural populations, he got involved in a PhD programme at TAD group (Social Sciences) at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. His research centres on analysing the local governance systems and the learning processes for change and their impacts on peoples’ development in rural villages in Southern Mexico. | |
