Yuconjay N. Barchue is a development practitioner and social worker with more than 20 years of professional work experience across various sectors, ranging from business and enterprise development, community-based reproductive health awareness, disease surveillance, food security and nutrition, to WASH and social mobilization, early childhood development and gender issues. Yuconjay has managed and coordinated several rural development and livelihoods interventions including rural loan administration through village savings and loan associations and credit facilitation for rural women groups. Yuconjay previously worked for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) as Project Manager for the IRC’s Community Engagement on Disease Surveillance; worked for Mercy Corps as Partners Support Officer supporting the Ebola Community Action Platform (ECAP). Prior to joining Mercy Corps; she served as Village Savings and Loans Consultant with the USAID-funded DAI’s Food and Enterprise Development (FED) Project. She also served as Marketing and Business Development Extension Supervisor with CARE International in Liberia; providing technical oversight to more than ten program staff across the different project intervention areas. She successfully provided consultancy services on village savings and loans including small business startups and provision of business development support to several international organizations such as Winrock, Foundation For Women Initiative (FFW), UN Women, COPDA/Arcelor Mittal, SOS Children’s Village, among others.