Host Organization: ACDI/VOCA
First Year Placement
Phonsavan, Laos
Felipe was based in the Philippines, working primarily on the Cooperative Development Program Philippines at ACDI/VOCA as a cooperative development specialist. Felipe concentrated on improving the cooperative’s business performances by delivering market linkages between the cooperative producers and aggregators. Felipe also worked with the Laos Microenterprise Project to strengthen value chains in Xieng Khouang Province for small and medium-level enterprises. He worked with the Technical Learning and Application team to ensure that project-level learning at the Cooperative Development Program and Laos Microenterprise was extrapolated and used in other ACDI/VOCA projects. His focus was on Private Sector Engagement (PSE), and Felipe helped create PSE briefs for new projects to determine the best approaches. He assisted in other projects by completing desk research and written summaries of past technical approaches.