Fransiska is provincial coordinator NTT-USAID ERAT at the Asia Foundation. She is passionate about working at the intersection of research, development, and policy.

Her research has focused on the impacts of climate change on food security, water, and gender and social inclusion, and she has drawn on her 13 years of public-sector experience to make strategic alliances with the government in order to scale evidence-based actions in water, food security, and livelihood sectors.

Her efforts to build the technical capacity of local institutions span rural communities in 44 villages of NTT and have helped to reduce risk to lives and livelihoods and increase the resilience of communities to all climate-related hazards.

Through her leadership of Hands of Hope, Fransiska demonstrates her belief that grassroots work – in the spirit of giving back to society and working within communities – can bring both empathy and expertise to help vulnerable people improve their lives.

She hopes to become an agent of change in her province in ways that will eliminate poverty and improve the quality of lives of marginalized women and children.