Jelson Garcia
Manager, Asia Program
Jelson Garcia is the Manager for BIC's Asia Program. A Filipino national, Jelson has previously worked for a number of local and international groups, which facilitated his close interaction with indigenous communities, federations of farmers, rural workers and fishermen and the demobilized combatants. He coordinated the campaign, advocacy, research and resource generation units of Peace for Development Group, supporting grassroots initiatives for agrarian reform, organic crop diversification, and environmental rehabilitation. He has researched sustainable agriculture alternatives promoted by MASIPAG, a Filipino national network of farmers, scientists and NGOs. He has also led two INGO-funded action research projects on the micro-level impacts of WTO policies as articulated in coastal development, sugar industry, agricultural and forestry programs of the national and local governments.
Prior to his work with CSOs, Jelson was involved with the Office of the Philippine President’s Program for Unification and Development. His most recent employment was with the Humanitarian Competency Program of World Vision-Asia Pacific Disaster Management Office.
Jelson has a background in Philosophy and has completed a degree in Anthropology and Comparative Sociology at Macquarie University (Australia). He's working on his master’s thesis at the University of the Philippines.
Asia
Burma
Mekong/South East Asia
Mongolia
Accountability at the ADB
ADB Safeguards Policy Update
Environmental & Social Policies at the ADB
Environmental Policy at the ADB
Forest Policy at the ADB
Forests
IFI Governance
Infrastructure
Transparency at the ADB
Asian Development Bank