Filipe Mate

WP 6 PhD researcher

Filipe Mate a PhD researcher in WP 6: Urban Precarious Outdoor Workers' Weather- and Climate-related Knowledge ∞ Action Networks. He works with street vendors in Maptuo, Mozambique. His PhD is based at both the Eduardo Mondlane University and the University of Amsterdam.

Filipe has a master’s degree in Risk from Durham University, United Kingdom, 2020-2021 edition, he holds a postgraduate diploma in Gender Studies offered by United Nations University, alongside with the University of Iceland (2017) and holds a degree in Geography from Eduardo Mondlane University (2012). Since 2012 he has been working as a research assistant in both the Department of Geography and the Center for Policy Analysis (CAP) at Eduardo Mondlane University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, in vast areas that extend from data collection, climate change, food security, environmental and gender issues. As a result, he has participated in several publications in Mozambique and abroad.

In most of the research where he participated resulted in publications. He has conducted several interviews in Gaza, Tete, Manica, Sofala, Zambézia, Tete, Cabo Delgado, Nampula, and in Maputo.
In the last 5 years, Filipe Mate has supported female students from the UK, Ireland and Netherlands on Gender and Climate Change related topics. He has also collaborated with GIZ in Mozambique and the WFP on local adaptation and gender and disaster risk management, and is an assistant lecturer at Eduardo Mondlane University where he works since 2013.

His passion lies on the intersection between gender and climate issues.

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