Jesus Vicente C. Garganera is coordinating an alliance of environmental and human rights organizations in the Philippines. His organization is a founding member of a national network on transparency and accountability on the extractive industry in the Philippines. He has 25 years of experience in development management and advocacy work on natural resources management and community organizing. He coordinated the engagement of environmental groups with national and local governments to craft and pass national and local policies on mining, culminating to ban on open-pit mining in 2017 and the suspension of illegal and non-compliant mining projects.