Ms. Balota has a Bachelor and Master’s degree in Geology with more than two decades of development work experience in the field of participatory natural resources management, community development, and development policy and resource governance. She facilitates multi-stakeholder collaborative processes and has practical experience in capacity development related to water resources management, gender mainstreaming, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.
She currently works with the Climate Change Commission in the Philippines for the “Support to the Philippines in Shaping and Implementing the International Climate Change Regime (SupportCCC II) Project” with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).