PENT ELYRIA DAWN V. LIONGSON
Calamba, Province Of Laguna
Summary
Experienced Gender and Development Practitioner with a strong track record of driving impactful outcomes across government agencies, NGOs, and educational institutions. Skilled in designing and implementing gender-responsive programs, developing training interventions and manuals, and leading capacity-building efforts. Expertise in monitoring, evaluation, policy advocacy, and community engagement, consistently delivering successful results in gender mainstreaming and organizational development with a focus on sustainable impact.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Independent Gender Specialist
Independent Consultancy
06.2013 - Current
- Coordinates with government agencies in need of gender-related trainings including national government agencies (NGAs), state universities and colleges (SUCs), LGUs, among others;
- Designs and facilitates/implements capability building interventions on GAD;
- Provides technical gender-related inputs in training designs;
- Develops presentation materials based on gender-related training needs of participants; and
- Facilitates the development of and reviews GAD-related training manuals and modules.
Gender Specialist
Engineering and Development Corporation of the PH
04.2023 - 07.2023
- Prepares detailed action and monitoring plan and design and implementation framework for the implementation of the project’s social inclusion, poverty and gender measures and targets with clear timelines, costing/budgets and responsibilities, and provide a standard template for monitoring social and reporting gender impact;
- Coordinates on the implementation of the project’s social inclusion, poverty and gender measures with relevant stakeholders including the civil contractor, local government units (LGUs)/Barangay Councils, business/private sector and civil society/non-government organizations (NGOs) to ensure that these measures and targets are implemented in an inclusive and effective way;
- Provides social and gender orientation and awareness training to key staff and relevant stakeholders on social and gender measures and its implementation, monitoring, review, reporting and evaluation process;
- Provides guidance to staff on how to ensure adequate consultation and participation of women;
- Engages in advocacy with LGUs/barangay officials, civil society/NGOs and local communities on importance of community participation in civil construction employment, business and livelihood opportunities, road safety and health/social risks mitigation measures;
- Designs awareness raising materials and support implementation at the commencement of project implementation to inform all stakeholders and source communities about the project background and benefits and its social and gender inclusion measures and target;
- Ensures that the awareness materials developed for the project is simple, gender sensitive, and available in local languages (where appropriate);
- Ensures the collection of relevant sex disaggregated data for all project activities, and guide implementing agencies on how to collect and use sex disaggregated data for input into project reporting, bi-annual GAP progress reports, mid-term review and the project completion report;
- Continues tracking and recording of social and gender progress and results from the project in a systematic and easily accessible form, linked to overall project results and the PPMS;
- Assesses and addresses any inadequacy in social inclusion and gender provisions, and identifies remedial actions to review or strengthen social and gender measures if required; and
- Ensures that all review missions include consideration of social and gender progress, involve consultation with men and women beneficiaries and include social and gender reporting in mission reports by providing technical support to mission teams.
Resilience Portfolio Officer
Oxfam Pilipinas
06.2022 - 10.2022
- Supports Portfolio Manager (PM) in day-to-day coordination with all relations, activities and communications of assigned project;
- Supports OPAL Project Manager to maintain OPAL milestones and budget forecast and top-up;
- Ensures that proper administration and logistics systems and procedures are followed in all relevant activities of the program and projects, steers in organizing field visits, project reviews and learning events, Project Management Team meetings, and other capacity building activities with partners as applicable;
- Observes and adheres to compliance of all organizational and donor requirements, including supporting PM in producing narrative reports for assigned project, collaborate with relevant partners, colleagues, technical advisors, program quality, and business development functions to ensure timely submission of high-quality reporting that complies with donor requirements;
- Supports PM in facilitating process for grants to partners, ensuring compliance with Oxfam’s mandatory procedures on appraisals, partner selection, monitoring, reporting and project closures;
- Supports PM in sharing information on project progress and learnings and addresses challenges affecting other projects as assigned;
- Supports in developing, improving, and embedding the country program’s Strategic Partnership Model across the organization;
- Supports in developing strong organizational relationships with partner organizations within the portfolios, coordinates and monitors all activities and communications to ensure that they reflect the spirit and intent of the country program’s Strategic Partnership Model;
- Ensures that partners are equal stakeholders in project management, reporting, and MELSA, and that the way that we engage with partners in these areas are empowering, principled and fully aligned with the Strategic Partnership Model;
- Contributes to the assessment and capability development of partner organizations under remit by initiating and coordinating activities with operations, technical, and business development leads, and ensures that these processes are participatory, fully understood and engaged with by the partner organizations within remit, and that partner organizations remain fully apprised of timing, requirements, and status throughout;
- Coordinates with assigned partner organizations to ensure that all reports are submitted in a timely manner and in accordance with donor and Oxfam requirements, collaborating early to identify potential delays, challenges or capacity gaps and coordinating with colleagues to address and rectify;
- Supports the timely conclusion of contractual arrangements with partner organizations under remit, ensuring that the process unfolds in line with the spirit and intent of the Strategic Partnership Model;
- Provides and ensures open access to both him/her self and the wider Oxfam team, promoting continuous dialogue and ongoing feedback from partner organizations;
- Represents Oxfam externally, and positively contribute to the promotion of women and girls’ empowerment, and taking a role to contribute to knowledge sharing and program development, where possible and relevant;
- Supports humanitarian surge capacity in Mindanao, in times of disasters, as guided by the Country Humanitarian Team or Humanitarian Advocacy and Strategic Partner Relations Manager; and
- Performs priority organizational tasks related to competencies, as may be assigned from time to time.
Senior Gender and Development Specialist
Philippine Commission on Women
01.2021 - 06.2022
- Provides technical assistance to national government agencies and Regional Gender and Development Committees (RGADCs) on gender and development mainstreaming, development of gender-responsive policies, programs, project, services and tools;
- Coordinates and participates in the conduct of GAD-capacity development programs, consultations, meetings, partnership building, policy advocacy, and monitoring and evaluation activities;
- Prepares GAD related modules and presentation materials on topics/subject matter assigned by the Division Chief (DC);
- Serves as subject matter expert/resource person on GAD related capacity development activities organized by PCW or as requested by stakeholder;
- Provides technical inputs in reviewing and endorsing GAD Plans and Budgets;
- Acts as PCW coordinator to RGADC partners and GAD Resource Pool batch members to facilitate effective partnership with PCW;
- Drafts and prepares press and photo release for PCW-TSRCD organized activities;
- Participates in the production of GAD-related Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) materials;
- Provides technical inputs in planning, implementation, and assessment of the division's overall strategic and operational plans, and activities;
- Participates and represents PCW in inter-agency committee meetings, conferences, consultations, workshops, seminars and learning sessions and acts as technical backstop to the Division Chief and PCW Officials; and
- Performs other related tasks that may be assigned by the Division Chief from time to time.
Gender and Development Specialist II
Philippine Commission on Women
08.2019 - 07.2021
- Participates in conduct of research, gather inputs to the planning, implementation, and assessment of the division’s overall strategic and operational plans and activities;
- Provides technical assistance to the agencies on gender and development mainstreaming, development of gender-responsive plans, policies, programs, projects, services, and tools, and the application of Gender and Development Monitoring & Evaluation Framework;
- Prepares technical inputs in the development and enhancement of GAD technical assistance packages, GAD policies, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) Frameworks, tools, and reports;
- Coordinates/participates in building partnerships, networks for cooperation and institutional linkages with Government Organizations (GOs), NGOs, LGUs, regional mechanisms and other partners;
- Participates in and provides backstop support in the conduct of Gender and Development-related activities, consultations, meetings, policy advocacy, and monitoring and evaluation activities;
- Coordinates/reviews Gender and Development plans and budgets of NGAs and other government instrumentalities;
- Prepares/drafts concept papers, activity proposals, policy papers, and technical reports related to assigned tasks;
- Participates and represents PCW and/or the in inter-agency committee meetings, conferences, consultations, workshops, seminars and learning sessions as may be assigned and acts as technical backstop to the Division Chief and PCW officials; and
- Performs other related tasks that may be assigned by the immediate and/or higher supervisors.
Regional Gender and Development Officer
Department of Social Welfare and Development NCR
07.2016 - 08.2019
- Administers GAD TNA for all RPMO staff;
- Maintains, updates, and monitors personnel Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes and Perspectives (KSAP) on GAD foundational topics, skills-based topics, and special and issue-based topics;
- Implements ladderized GAD capability building intervention based on the results of GAD LNA and that will strategically contribute to fast-tracking of gender mainstreaming;
- Influences production of sex-disaggregated data and use of gender-fair language in reports and all forms of communications;
- Facilitates and consolidates the generation of Pantawid Core GAD statistics and gender red sites through annual GAD mapping activities;
- Reports regional Pantawid GAD situationer which includes gender issue identification generated from the PPIS and as may be sourced out from municipal, provincial, and partner-stakeholder reports as well as their analysis;
- Leads in the formulation of Annual GAD Plan and Budget of the Program which contains interventions to the identified and analyzed gender issues and gaps;
- Provides technical assistance to other RPMO staff through established mechanism such as the Regional Pantawid GAD Working Group, to POOs and MOOs towards addressing the identified and analyzed gender issues and gaps;
- Consolidates and submits bi-annual GAD Accomplishment Report to the GAD-NPMO;
- Responds to the glaring gender issues and gaps that emanate from program implementation;
- Develops and popularizes GAD advocacy materials;
- Documents good/best practice; and
- Performs other tasks as may be directed by their immediate supervisors.
Women in Arts, Literature and Media Instructor
Philippine Normal University Manila
06.2015 - 10.2015
- Prepares the course syllabus for Women in Arts, Literature and Media;
- Develops gender-responsive learning activities;
- Teaches the students to integrate the core messages of the course in teaching methods and techniques;
- Provides and processes the learning and inputs of students to develop their gender perspective;
- Prepares assessment and examination materials based on the core competencies and course syllabus; and
- Performs other tasks directed by the Associate Dean of the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences (FBeSS).
Research Coordinator and School Paper Adviser
St. Joseph School of Gagalangin
06.2014 - 03.2015
English and Literature Teacher
St. Joseph School of Gagalangin
05.2013 - 03.2015
Education
Bachelor of Science in Social Work -
Asian Social Institute
Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines05-2025
Undergraduate Specialization in Women Studies -
Philippine Normal University
Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines04-2013
Bachelor of Secondary Education Major in English -
Philippine Normal University
Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines04-2013
Skills
- Communication
- Public Speaking
- Program/Project Management and Implementation
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Community Development and Organizing
- Gender Analysis
- Gender Mainstreaming
- Curriculum Development
Certification
Training Team Member for AVES Community-based Organization since 2022
- An organization promoting unity and strengthening the advocacy of HIV awareness and prevention. It aspires to evolve the service delivery of the organization into a much bigger scale by promoting the spirit of volunteerism, fostering camaraderie through partnerships, and community involvement.
Core Volunteer and SOGIESC Subject Matter Expert for MapBeks
- An online community of mapping volunteers advocating for LGBTQIA+ representation and inclusiveness in various mapping platforms
Certified Member of the National GAD Resource Pool of the Philippine Commission on Women since December 2024
- Composed of technical assistance providers with expertise on GAD mainstreaming. Formed by the Philippine Commission on Women, it serves as its support group in the provision of GAD-related technical assistance, conduct of gender-related researches and studies, and GAD monitoring and evaluation. The members are selected from National Government Agencies, Local Government Units, academe, Civil Society Organizations, and independent gender consultants who have the competencies and experience in the provision of technical assistance for various client groups.
Timeline
Gender Specialist
Engineering and Development Corporation of the PH
04.2023 - 07.2023
Resilience Portfolio Officer
Oxfam Pilipinas
06.2022 - 10.2022
Senior Gender and Development Specialist
Philippine Commission on Women
01.2021 - 06.2022
Gender and Development Specialist II
Philippine Commission on Women
08.2019 - 07.2021
Regional Gender and Development Officer
Department of Social Welfare and Development NCR
07.2016 - 08.2019
Women in Arts, Literature and Media Instructor
Philippine Normal University Manila
06.2015 - 10.2015
Research Coordinator and School Paper Adviser
St. Joseph School of Gagalangin
06.2014 - 03.2015
Independent Gender Specialist
Independent Consultancy
06.2013 - Current
English and Literature Teacher
St. Joseph School of Gagalangin
05.2013 - 03.2015
Bachelor of Science in Social Work -
Asian Social Institute
Undergraduate Specialization in Women Studies -
Philippine Normal University
Bachelor of Secondary Education Major in English -
Philippine Normal University
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