Aurora Mija

YEP period 2022 - 2024, batch BD
Young Expert at Blue Deal - PeruYEP Role
Working at National Water Authority as a technical assistant in the integrated management of water resources for the technical secretary of the water resources council of the basin Tumbes, in cooperation with the Blue Deal project - Peru. Principal responsibilities:
- Providing technical assistance to the technical team responsible for the process of updating the project prioritisation matrix of the IWRM plan
- Providing support in the follow-up and monitoring of the basin IWRM plan
- Organising participating stakeholder meetings to fill knowledge gaps and generate links with international approaches
- Planning the implementation of the "Decision Support System" for the Tumbes basin water resources council, through the use of geographic information systems (GIS)
Skills
- Data monitoring and analysis
- Innovation and creativity
- Responsible
- Conflict resolution
- Project management
- Self-learning
- Perseverance
- Empathy
- Perseverance
Background
- Nationality: Peruvian
- Education: Bachelor in Agricultural engineering at the National university of Piura
Experience before YEP
- Regional Agricultural Management Office - Lambayeque:
- Assistant in the files preparation of and technical data sheets of hydraulic infrastructure projects
- Assistant in the supervision of projects executed by the hydraulic infrastructure and technical irrigation area
- Assistant in the elaboration of work liquidations under the direct administration modality
- ANA (National Water Authority - ALA Chira)
- Assistant in the area of groundwater resources
- Assistant in the area of quality of surface and underground water resources
- Coordinator of the project “Alert and Monitoring System for the Activation of Streams”, SAMAQ (Spanish acronym)
- Agricultural consultant - UVELA
- Designer of technical irrigation projects for small farmers
- Designer of topographical maps of agricultural land
- Pilot of crop monitoring with drones
- Engineer of data processing with ArcGis, Qgis, Agisoft Metashape, Pix4d, Global mapper, Auto CAD
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