Virginia Marriezcurrena

Virginia is coordinating SIWI´s partnership with UNICEF Latin American and Caribbean Regional Office for the Accountability for Sustainability Program. The program provides technical assistance around the enabling environment for attaining SDG 6 in 19 countries in the region. Her areas of expertise are Water Governance, Multi stakeholder processes and platforms, participatory diagnostic methodologies (such as WASHBAT), sectoral capacity building needs assessments and processes, etc.

Virginia has more than 25 years of fieldwork experience in Africa and in Latin America. She performed a broad variety of positions from engaging in environmental grass-root activism and policy influencing, to managing large-scale WASH Governance programs implemented in complex and conflict-prone areas of rural Mozambique. She coordinated cross cultural, international and interdisciplinary teams for decades. She holds an interest in innovation and change management.    

She holds a Master in Laws (LL.M.) from Rosario University (Argentina), and a M.Sc. in Environmental Management and Policy from the IIIEE at Lund University (Sweden). Virginia is an Argentinean national and speaks English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

She has co-authored publications on accountability for fragile states, COVID-19 response in WASH, and sustainability standards.