Elnora worked with SEI from 2000 until 2010. She is mostly involved in projects and research activities related to risk, vulnerability and sustainable livelihoods as well as water and and sanitation issues with focus in the Greater Mekong Subregion.

Past professional experience include; a) networking and coordination of NGO development activities in the GMS, and b) managing community development projects and capacity or institution building activities in the Philippines (i.e. the Rural Livelihood Generation Programme and the Integrated Rural Financing Programme).

She holds a masters degree on Human Settlements Development in the field of Rural and Regional Development Planning from the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand and an undergraduate degree in Agriculture major in Agricultural Economics from Visayas State University (formerly called Visayas State College of Agriculture) in the Philippines.

Her research interests include community development and participation, environmental assessment, vulnerability analysis, migration, microfinance and social and economic issues related to water and sanitation.

Publications

• The Mekong: a diverse basin facing the tensions of development (Journal article - 2010)

• Assessing Water-related Poverty Using the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (Report - 2009)

• Mekong Basin Focal Project: Final Report (Project report - 2009)

• The challenge of moving from acknowledgement to action: A review of vulnerability to environmental stresses and natural hazards in PRSPs (Report - 2008)

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Projects

• Sustainable Mekong Research Network Programme (Sumernet)

  
  

• Challenging the rural-urban dichotomy in risk analysis

  
  

• Sustainable Recovery and Resilience Building in the Tsunami Affected Region

  
  

• Strategic Environmental Framework for the Greater Mekong Subregion