Aurora Mija

YEP period 2022 - 2024, batch BD

YEP 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