Helio Munhoz Buba

○Managed and implemented the project "Inclusive Peaceful Land Management in Oio, Cacheu and Biombo Regions". Among the achievements within this project:

• Led capacity building sessions at the Ministry of Public Works, Housing and Urbanism of Guinea-Bissau, which later resulted in the creation of the GIS (Geographic Information System) unit in the ministry. This initiative kickstarted the use of digital database for mapping at the Geography and Cadastre Directorate.
• Led participatory spatial planning workshops with indigenous communities, which resulted in 18 communities - or 'tabankas' - registered and land rights recognized, and two regional plans which encompasses them.

○Represented the agency at the Monitoring & Evaluation task team of the United Nations at Guinea-Bissau country level. Worked on the Cooperation Framework annual report and listed indicators improvements to be discussed in the next term

○Wrote one project proposal and supported the design of another one. The two were approved and received funding. The first, led by our agency with partnership with two other UN agencies and one international NGO, was the only entry of the country approved in the Peacebuilding Fund call for proposals in the 2023 term

• Performed research and housing assessment in the Saudi Arabia Developmental Housing Program, a project from the Saudi government which aims to build up to 300,000 social housing units until 2030. With my neighborhood assessments,
• Data analysis support to the Urban Lab Mexico.
• Participation in the city plans of Juba (South Sudan), Gorongosa (Mozambique) and the
• Development Framework in the Bijagós Region (Guinea-Bissau).

• Research and housing assessment in the Saudi Arabia Developmental Housing Program. Data analysis support to the Urban Lab Mexico. Participation in the city plans of Juba (South Sudan), Gorongosa (Mozambique) and the Development Framework in the Bijagós Region (Guinea-Bissau).

• Negotiating with suppliers, construction monitoring, budgeting, architectural design and complementary projects. (something about private sector, idk)

• Participation in Papirøen(Paper Island) design competition.
• Crafting of the office's exposition at the 2016 Venice Biennale.
• Viability studies and research for urban design projects.