Katrina D. Bartolo

Katrina D. Bartolo

Humanitarian Project Development Consultant

Thailand · Philippines · Southeast Asia

Connecting needs with solutions, organizations with resources, partners with a shared purpose.

Email Katrina WhatsApp +66 987 944 816
Portrait of Katrina D. Bartolo
Speaks English · Thai · Tagalog · Spanish

Professional introduction

Katrina D. Bartolo is a visionary humanitarian leader and strategic partnership specialist with extensive hands-on experience in developing, designing, and coordinating community-based humanitarian and development programmes across Southeast Asia.

She specializes in transforming identified humanitarian needs into practical, sustainable, and resource-ready projects through project design, proposal development, fundraising, partnership development, and programme coordination.

Katrina develops and manages multi-stakeholder strategic partnerships with NGOs, faith-based organizations, Churches, community groups, government/local authorities, humanitarian volunteers, donors, and international partners bringing together people, organizations, expertise, and resources to turn shared humanitarian priorities into collaborative action and measurable community impact.

Her work spans humanitarian response, community health, vision care, refugee and displaced-community support, child and education programmes, disaster response, disability inclusion, livelihood development, and social enterprise.

How a project moves, from first visit to final report

  1. Needs Assessment
  2. Project Design
  3. Resource Mobilization
  4. Partnership
  5. Implementation
  6. Monitoring
  7. Reporting

Core professional competencies

  • Humanitarian Project Development
  • Grant & Proposal Writing
  • Project Concept Development
  • Fundraising Strategy
  • Donor Research & Mapping
  • Partnership Development
  • Project Budget Development
  • Programme Planning
  • Monitoring & Evaluation
  • Donor Reporting
  • Humanitarian Emergency Response
  • Community Development
  • Social Enterprise Development
  • Stakeholder Coordination
  • Volunteer & Team Management
  • Cross-Cultural Programme Coordination
  • Project Documentation
  • Nonprofit Administration

Experience

  1. Current

    Yahweh Global Mission Organization (YGM)

    Founder & Executive Director / Humanitarian Project Development Director Thailand – Myanmar – Philippines

    Lead the development and coordination of humanitarian and community-development initiatives serving vulnerable and underserved communities across Southeast Asia.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Lead humanitarian project identification, design, planning, implementation coordination, and reporting.
    • Strategically leading and coordinating multicultural international volunteer teams across diverse humanitarian and community-development contexts.
    • Develop project concepts, proposals, budgets, fundraising appeals, donor communications, and partnership documents.
    • Identify humanitarian needs and translate them into structured programmes with defined beneficiaries, activities, objectives, outputs, outcomes, and resource requirements.
    • Develop fundraising and donor-engagement strategies for humanitarian and development initiatives.
    • Coordinate local and international partners, volunteers, community leaders, churches, NGOs, and other stakeholders.
    • Support emergency humanitarian response and resource mobilization following disasters and community crises.
    • Develop project documentation and accountability reports for supporters and partners.
    • Coordinate cross-border and cross-cultural humanitarian initiatives involving Thailand, Myanmar, and the Philippines.
    • Develop social-enterprise and livelihood concepts designed to contribute to long-term community sustainability.
    • Support volunteer recruitment, coordination, training, and field deployment.
    • Establish partnership frameworks and operational procedures for humanitarian programmes.

  2. 2024 – Present

    Christian Outreach Centre Foundation

    Humanitarian Development | Administrative Leadership Thailand

    Experience supporting organizational administration, developing humanitarian programme coordination, volunteer management, leading and coordinating multicultural international volunteer teams, documentation, partnership coordination, and community-development activities.

    Key areas included

    • Humanitarian project administration
    • Volunteer coordination
    • Organizational documentation
    • Community programme coordination
    • Partner communication
    • Project development
    • Administrative systems
    • Field-team coordination
    • Fundraising and grants

  3. 2021 – 2024

    Intertag Co., Ltd

    Business Development Director Bangkok, Thailand

    Outsourcing · Project Developer · Project Consultant · Social Enterprise Project Developer · Inter-cultural Liaison

  4. 2015 – 2021

    Gamma Industries Co., Ltd

    Sr. Marketing Executive Bangkok, Thailand

    Digital Marketing · Planning and Monitoring · Social Media marketing · Affiliate marketing

Selected project experience

Clear Vision / Community Health Program

Thailand & Philippines

Developed and coordinated a community vision-care initiative providing underserved communities with access to:

  • Vision screening
  • Eyeglasses
  • Basic eye assessment
  • Basic health support
  • Community health education
  • Referral/support coordination

The programme has been designed to prioritize underserved elderly people, persons with disabilities, and economically vulnerable communities.

Relevant consultancy competencies Programme design · Community health · Partnership coordination · Fundraising · Field operations · Beneficiary targeting

Safe Haven Humanitarian Program

Thailand–Myanmar Border

Supported humanitarian assistance for vulnerable refugee and displaced communities, including:

  • Food & Medicine assistance
  • Shelter support
  • Clean-water and Sanitation initiatives
  • Essential humanitarian supplies
  • Support for vulnerable children
  • Community-based assistance

Worked with local partners and humanitarian networks to identify needs and coordinate assistance.

Relevant competencies Humanitarian response · Needs assessment · Emergency fundraising · Partnership development · Field coordination · Strategic Partnership Development · Stakeholder Engagement

EduCare / Child & Community Development

Philippines

Developed and supported programmes addressing the needs of vulnerable children and communities through:

  • Educational support
  • Feeding programmes
  • Community outreach
  • Child-focused activities
  • Anti-bullying initiatives
  • Mobilization for Children with Disabilities
  • Community development

Relevant competencies Child-focused programming · Community engagement & Safety · Project development · Partnership coordination

Disaster & Emergency Response

Philippines | Thailand | Myanmar

Participated in the development and coordination of emergency relief initiatives following disasters and crises. Responsibilities have included:

  • Rapid identification of community needs
  • Beneficiary coordination
  • Local partner engagement
  • Relief planning
  • Fundraising appeals
  • Distribution coordination
  • Donor/supporter communication
  • Post-response documentation

Livelihood & Social Enterprise Development

Southeast Asia

Developing humanitarian programmes that combine community assistance with longer-term livelihood opportunities. Areas include:

  • Community enterprise
  • Livelihood development
  • Skills development
  • Agricultural/coffee-related initiatives
  • Youth development
  • Social enterprise models

Relevant competencies Social enterprise · Livelihood development · Sustainability planning · Partnership development · Resource mobilization

Selected impact experience

15,000+ people and families across multiple humanitarian and community-development initiatives.

  • 5,000+ people receiving eye examinations / vision assistance
  • 3,000+ refugee and displaced families supported
  • 2,500+ families reached through disaster-relief activities
  • 2,000+ children reached through feeding initiatives
  • 1,000+ children reached through education/community programmes
  • 600+ people reached through medical missions
  • 300+ persons with disabilities receiving assistance
  • 200+ families receiving water-filter support

Figures are programme-reported cumulative figures and are updated periodically as new verified project data becomes available.

Project & fundraising capabilities

Able to develop a project from an identified community problem into a structured programme including:

  1. Problem Statement
  2. Needs
  3. Beneficiaries
  4. Objectives
  5. Activities
  6. Outputs
  7. Outcomes
  8. Indicators
  9. Budget
  10. Sustainability

Proposal development

Experience developing:

  • Project proposals
  • Funding appeals
  • Project summaries
  • Partnership proposals
  • Donor updates
  • Programme reports
  • Budget narratives
  • Fundraising presentations

Fundraising

Experience supporting resource mobilization through:

  • Individual donors
  • Churches
  • Corporate/social-enterprise partnerships
  • Community fundraising
  • Emergency appeals
  • International supporters

Training & professional development

  • Church Planting Training

    Completed Church Planting Training focused on developing and equipping leaders for community and mission engagement.

  • Lay Counselling Training

    Training in foundational lay counselling and community support.

  • Spirit-Led Missionary Training

    Training covering outreach, cross-cultural ministry, field engagement, spiritual formation, and practical missionary service.

  • Humanitarian / Community Programme Experience

    Practical field experience across Thailand, Myanmar, and the Philippines involving humanitarian response, community development, volunteer coordination, fundraising, and programme implementation.

  • Intertag Academy

    Sept – Oct 2023 · Bangkok, Thailand

    • Certified Digital Transformation Project Consultant

  • TESDA – Technical Education and Skills Development Authority

    October 2023 · Taguig City, Philippines

    • SMART Technopreneurship 101
    • SMART Android Mobile Apps Development
    • Microsoft Digital Literacy

  • National Innovation Agency (NIA-MOOC)

    November 2023 · Bangkok, Thailand

    • Innovation Management 101

Where she has worked

Thailand

Chiang Mai · Mae Hong Son · Thai–Myanmar border communities · Northern Thailand

Myanmar

Humanitarian support involving displaced/refugee communities and cross-border humanitarian initiatives

Philippines

Occidental Mindoro · Mindanao · Cebu · Other community and disaster-response locations

International / Remote Collaboration

Experience coordinating with international volunteers, supporters, churches, humanitarian partners, and organizations across multiple countries.

Professional strengths

Strategic

  • Project conceptualization
  • Programme planning
  • Fundraising strategy
  • Sustainability

Technical

  • Proposal writing
  • Budget development
  • Donor communication
  • Project documentation

Operational

  • Field coordination
  • Volunteer management
  • Partner coordination
  • Emergency response

Interpersonal

  • Cross-cultural communication
  • Community engagement
  • Stakeholder relationship building

Professional consultancy services

Available for project work, reviews and longer engagements with NGOs, churches, foundations and social enterprises.

Start a conversation
  • Humanitarian Project Development
  • Grant & Proposal Writing
  • Fundraising Strategy
  • Donor Research & Mapping
  • Project Development
  • Programme Design
  • Partnership Development
  • Project Review & Improvement
  • Business Development & Start Up
  • Social Enterprise & Livelihood Project Development
  • Humanitarian Programme Documentation & Reporting

Contact

ym.coc.ph@gmail.com
Also
coc-ci@cocthailand.com
Phone / WhatsApp
+66 987 944 816 · Open WhatsApp
Website
www.yahwehglobalmission.com
Languages
English, Thai, Tagalog, Spanish

References available upon request.