Antoinette G. Royo

Nonette is a practitioner and an author in the fields of law and policy advocacy, conflict resolution, natural resources management and strengthening the voice of indigenous groups. She pioneered various civil society initiatives in public interest law and environmental justice over the last 20 years in the Philippines, Indonesia/Papua and has in the last five years, expanded reach in the Southeast Asia Region.

Her experience includes bridging local development challenges with programming donor-CSO portfolios and implementing systems for grants and trust funds to ensure maximum benefit to poorest rural communities and local CSOs. She helped set up Samdhana’s Indigenous Peoples Support Fund and several Community Foundations for other Programs in regional Indonesia; partnered with Indonesia AMAN (Indonesia Archipelago Indigenous peoples Alliance) for REDD preparedness funds. In 2007 she bridged multi-disciplinary research and development work for effective local solutions and social outreach, working with Xavier University, Ateneo de Cagayan in Mindanao Philippines, and several conservation based civil society groups, among them the partners of IUCN-Netherlands Ecosystems Grants Program/Ecosystems Alliance in Indonesia and the Philippines. Nonette now lives in Bali.

Nonette is a member of the Oslo REDD Exchange 2013 Programme Committee.