Welcome to our series “The People of PIER,” profiles of the individuals leading the Private Investment for Enhanced Resilience (PIER) Project. PIER mobilizes private-sector investment to support resilience to climate change in Bangladesh, Ghana, Guyana, Indonesia, Mozambique, Peru, Tanzania and Vietnam. Spearheaded by Winrock and funded by the State Department, PIER supports private sector companies, financial institutions and governments to increase climate resilience through technical assistance. PIER partners with such entities to increase their capacity to understand climate vulnerabilities; design climate risk mainstreaming and mitigation plans; and develop pathways for mobilizing private investment in climate resilience.
PIER is an innovative climate finance project that incentivizes private sector investments in support of national development objectives that address climate change, such as National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), within countries of strategic interest to the United States, including Bangladesh, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Indonesia, Jamaica, Mozambique, Peru, Saint Lucia, Tanzania, and Vietnam. PIER demonstrates...
The Private Investment for Enhanced Resilience (PIER) Project is now working in the Caribbean, where it is demonstrating how implementing partners can engage the private sector in reducing deforestation pressures and enhancing carbon stocks through investments in intercropping, cover crop development and agroforestry, thus encouraging more resilient value chains. PIER’s work in Jamaica, Dominican Republic,...
What is your role in the PIER project? I act as a country liaison to build and consolidate a local network of key partners (actual and potential) from the public and private sectors with whom we develop the project’s activities. I also instruct/direct/manage actions related to raising awareness and building capacity among partners. The theme...
What is your role in the PIER project? I’m the private finance consultant, focusing on the PIER project in Indonesia. I supported the country assessment for Indonesia, helped identify potential projects and, together with the project lead, developed a project implementation plan. I’m part of the on-the-ground team implementing the project, and I manage our...
What is your role within the PIER project? I am the communications intern. I’ve been working on blog interviews about the team (like this one), beefing up our social media footprint, designing creative infographics, and any other tasks that the team could use my help with. What excites you about the project? I never really...
What is your role within the PIER project? My primary role is acting as the team’s resilience coordinator. I support with research and project design to ensure PIER interventions have a clear tie to climate risk and include activities that enhance resilience. In addition, I lead the monitoring and evaluation work for the project. I...
What is your role within the PIER project? My official role with PIER is that I'm the project manager and I steward all the administrative work, such as the project budget and contractual communications with the funder as well as similar communications that happen inside Winrock. In addition, I'm also the team lead for the...
Welcome to our series “The People of PIER,” profiles of the individuals leading the Private Investment for Enhanced Resilience (PIER) Project. PIER mobilizes private-sector investment to support resilience to climate change in Bangladesh, Ghana, Guyana, Indonesia, Mozambique, Peru, Tanzania and Vietnam. Spearheaded by Winrock and funded by the State Department, PIER supports private sector companies,...
What is your role in the PIER project? Broadly speaking, I'm the private-sector partnerships lead for the Private Investment for Enhanced Resilience (PIER) project. Specifically, I lead our activities in Indonesia, which are focused on mobilizing private investment in agriculture resilience. I also lead most of our work related to private-sector engagement and financing in...