Luis Castellar Maymo is a seasoned professional with 22 years of experience in democratic governance cooperation projects, particularly in conflict and post-conflict settings. He holds a Law Degree and a Post-graduate degree in International Affairs and is fluent in Spanish, Catalan, English, French, and Italian.
Luis is a project management specialist, having been involved in all steps of the Project Cycle Management, from a donor to an implementing partner angle. Acquainted with EU, UN and USAID regulations and management systems, programming cycles and implementing modalities. Luis was a task manager for good governance in the EU Delegations in Afghanistan and Kosovo, responsible for the operational management and monitoring of EU funding for various good governance grants and contribution agreements and focal point for FPI interventions, EIDHR and CSO-LA thematic programmes and gender. He has solid experience working with CSOs by managing grants and facilitating participatory consultation processes with CSOs, managing the EU CSO-LA and other civil society grant schemes, designing CfPs, performing ex-ante evaluations and monitoring, facilitating several EU CSO Roadmaps and co-authoring 2 EC CSO publications. He also has solid experience in Human Rights and peacebuilding, specifically policy dialogue and advocacy on human rights, including as technical secretariat of two UN Human Rights tripartite processes.
Recently, Luis has provided external technical expertise in over 50 assignments supporting DGs INTPA, NEAR, FPI and EUDs as a PCM/ROM/SDL specialist through several EC aid facilities and rosters (ROM, SDL, RoadMap, CSOF, REA, EU EOM) formulating interventions and logframes, assessing CfP proposals, ODA knowledge management, third-party monitoring (ROM reviews) and 3 EU impact evaluations.
Luis has a wealth of experience working in diverse cultural and political contexts. He has worked in Afghanistan, Bolivia, Colombia, East Timor, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Israel, Kosovo, Lebanon, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nepal, Philippines, RD Congo, West Bank and Gaza Strip, Yemen, and provided home-based support to EUD in several other countries.
Luis’ experience includes 23 electoral missions since 2004, observing within EU EOMs and providing technical assistance as a senior electoral expert for the UN, USAID, and ECES. His particular passion lies in enhancing the value-driven capacity of EMBs and boosting the sustainability and integrity of electoral processes.
Luis has coordinated an election-related, FPI-funded intervention implemented by ECES in Afghanistan and provided technical expertise to activities in several ECES projects worldwide.
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