Ayessa Tin is currently the Programme Analyst for the Women, Peace and Security programme of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) in the Philippines. She co-leads the program on Women Mediation and facilitates training sessions for women to build skills on conflict resolution and leads the drafting of the Bangsamoro Mediation Agenda for UN Women supported by the network of women mediators in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Her work in UN Women has also allowed her to support the development of the 2023-2028 BARMM Regional Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security which for the first time, surfaces the confluence of gender, conflict, and the climate crisis in the WPS discourse in the region at a policy level. In line with the implementation of the Government of the Philippines – Moro Islamic Liberation Front (GPH-MILF) Peace Agreement, Tin previously served as focal person for the program on the management of Small Arms and Light Weapons with the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process during her work there from 2020-2021. Tin has consistently worked on peacebuilding initiatives since 2012 in the conflict-affected communities of Sarangani Province, Philippines and through freelance and volunteer work with local and international organisations in South Central Mindanao and later in the Bangsamoro Region. She also has a six-year professional background on public policy and local legislation. Tin is a Cum Laude graduate of Political Science in 2012 and holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration major in Public Policy under the In-Country Scholarship Program of Australia Awards. In 2023, she became a Salzburg Global Fellow for the second cohort of the Asia Peace Innovators Forum in Salzburg, Austria. 

Participant in: March 2024 Fellowship: Climate Change, Gender, and Conflict