Guyra Association – Paraguay (BirdLife International Partner)
Year: 2025
Description:
Institutional assessment.
Design of an administrative, financial, and project strengthening plan.
Contribution: Definition of a clear, ambitious, and realistic roadmap for the growth and consolidation of the organization in Paraguay and design of a toolkit for institutional management.
Key Projects
Aves y Conservación – Ecuador (BirdLife International Partner)
Year: 2023
Description:
Technical support in developing your institutional Strategic Plan.
Design of a medium- and long-term financing strategy, including organizational sustainability analysis and resource projections.
Contribution: Definition of a clear, ambitious and realistic roadmap for the growth and consolidation of the organization in Ecuador.
Network of rural and conservationists women – Eastern Plains (Colombia)
Year: 2024
Description:
Design and facilitation of a leadership and entrepreneurship strengthening workshop, aimed at women who lead community conservation processes in the Llanos.
Contribution: Empowerment and visibility of female leadership in rural and border contexts, with a focus on gender, inclusion and sustainability.
Calidris Association – Colombia (Partner of BirdLife International)
Year: 2023
Description:
Participatory design of their new Strategic Plan, including institutional diagnosis, definition of strategic objectives, theory of change, and monitoring mechanisms.
Facilitation of a conflict resolution workshop with field teams and national coordination.
Contribution: Strategic reorganization of Calidris and strengthening of internal capacities for the management of complex teams and territories.
Cóndor Andino Foundation – Ecuador
Year: 2025
Description:
Design of the Administrative and Financial Manual, integrating best practices in management, control, and transparency.
Review and strengthening of institutional gender and inclusion policies, with practical guidelines for their cross-cutting application in projects.
Contribution: Professionalization of institutional management and progress in the equality and rights approach within the organizational culture.
Conservación Internacional - Ecuador
Year: 2026
Description:
Design of training workshops for local communities in northwestern Quito
Contribution: Two training workshops for local communities designed and delivered in partnership with Conservation International staff.
Fundación Altrópico – Ecuador
Year: 2025
Description:
Design of a Financial Sustainability Strategy based on a participatory construction process and identification of its strengths and capabilities.
Contribution: Organizational strengthening through innovative strategies and financial sustainability mechanisms.
DVV – Ecuador
Year: 2025 - 2026
Description:
Facilitation of the 2025 Regional Logical Framework Workshop and 2026 Planning for the Continental Project – DVV International South America Regional Office
Methodological and content proposal for the regional workshop.
Systematization of the results of the regional logical framework workshop.
2026 Annual Operating Plan (AOP) of the Continental Project counterparts.
Contribution: Support in the preparation of the 2026 Annual Operating Plan (AOP) of the counterparts of the DVV Continental Project, including facilitating the workshop for the evaluation of 2025 activities and planning for 2026, as well as the methodological guide in the final preparation of the 2026 AOP.
Ecuadorian Academy of Sciences
Year: 2026
Description:
Strategic Planning Workshop Design
Implementation of a Strategic Planning Workshop with all members of the Ecuadorian Academy of Sciences
Executive Summary and Practical Strategic Plan
Contribution: Support in the construction of a practical Strategic Plan for the next 5 years of execution of activities of the Academy of Sciences of Ecuador.
National Audubon - USA
Year: 2026
Description:
Design of the Community Engagement Leader Program Framework to strengthen the role of those responsible for mobilizing and supporting communities participating in the Christmas Bird Count.
Development of a practical toolkit with over 40 resources, designed to guide those assuming this role in areas such as outreach, participation, communication, inclusion, and community experience management.
Structure of a replicable and easy-to-implement proposal that allows National Audubon to standardize support for these leaders and strengthen community participation in the program.
Contribution: Kapok led the design and structuring of the program, translating the needs of the National Audubon Society and the Christmas Bird Count into a clear and actionable framework. The contribution included conceptualizing the Community Engagement Leader role, organizing their expertise and responsibilities, and creating and curating a resource toolkit to facilitate its implementation in various contexts.
Conserva Aves - Latin America
Year: 2026
Descripction:
Design and facilitation of a participatory strategic learning process for Conserva Aves, aimed at enabling national partners to share experiences, analyze progress and challenges, and identify lessons learned and priorities for the program's evolution.
Preparation and facilitation of the National Partners Meeting, including preliminary virtual sessions, interviews, plenary sessions, working groups, peer learning opportunities, and a field visit, integrating cross-cutting themes such as GESI (Environmental and Social Management System), monitoring and evaluation, communication, regional coordination, and capacity building.
Systematization of the lessons learned and recommendations that emerged throughout the process, identifying elements to maintain, strengthen, reduce, discontinue, or scale up, and generating practical guidelines to inform the next phase of Conserva Aves.
Contribution: Kapok designed and led the learning process from start to finish: developing the methodology and agenda, facilitating preparatory sessions and the in-person meeting, and transforming the partners' experiences and discussions into actionable findings and recommendations. The consultancy combined strategic process design, participatory facilitation, and systematization, aiming to ensure that the meeting was not an isolated event, but rather a concrete input for decision-making and the next stage of Conserva Aves.