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Xavier Hospital coordinates the UNESCO strategy on education for health and wellbeing in West and Central Africa, with a focus on improving the quality and coverage of comprehensive sexuality education and strengthening responses to school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV). He is the major contributor to the development of tools to analyses and visually represent complex education programmes: Analysis and Imaging of Education Response to SRGBV, Sexuality Education Review and Assessment Tool and, in collaboration with IPPF, Inside & Out. Currently Regional Health Education Adviser, Xavier has been working for 12 years in West and Central Africa (WCA) for Doctors of the World, Plan International, ACPP and UNESCO, either as Country Coordinator, consultant or Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator, with a focus on health and education. He holds a doctorate in Social Psychologist from the University of Montpellier, and studied or lectured at the universities of Lille, Manchester and Lisbon, developing an expertise in conflict negotiation, decision making and research methods in social and behavioural sciences.
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I am Azzurra and I am the Global Coordinator of a Joint Programme on rural women's economic empowerment. The programme, implemented by FAO, IFAD, WFP and UN Women, is implemented in seven countries: Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Nepal, Niger, and Rwanda with the overall goal of responding with an integrated response to the multiple challenges rural women face in their daily lives. Before taking my current position, I lived for six years in West Africa where I started to work on gender equality and women's empowerment programs, with a specific focus on the fundamental role of women in poverty reduction and conflict prevention. In 2013-2015, I was the Gender Advisor of the Italian Embassy in Afghanistan, where I led the renewed commitment of Italy in the sector of gender equality, with programmes in areas as sexual and reproductive rights, fight to GBV, access to justice and to education, and women’s economic empowerment.
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Elisabeth King is Professor of International Education and Politics at New York University and Founding Director of NYU’s minor in Peace and Conflict Studies. Her research focuses on inclusive institutions and identities in ethnically diverse and conflict-affected contexts, with special expertise in peacebuilding and education. See www.elisabethking.com
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Natalia Mirovitskaya has been with the Duke Center for International Development (DCID) for over twenty years. Her professional focus is on political economy of development and peacebuilding. Following the completion of her Ph.D. from the Russian Academy of Sciences (Economics), Mirovitskaya has led and participated in numerous projects on the design, implementation and effectiveness of international resource regimes, environmental security, sustainable development and conflict prevention. Mirovitskaya’ s experience has displayed an interdisciplinary approach linking theoretical advances with practical policy advice. Her recent research has been focused on conflict sensitivity of development strategies. She has co- authored Development Strategies and Inter-Group Violence (Palgrave 2016), and co-edited Economic Development Strategies and the Evolution of Violence in Latin America (2012), Development Strategies, Identities, and Conflict in Asia (2013), and The Economic Roots of Conflict and Cooperation in Africa (2013). Mirovitskaya’s most recent project is on Development for the New Arctic: Visions, Strategies, Challenges at the Subnational and Local Level. She is also co-editor of the Palgrave Macmillan series “Politics, Economics and Inclusive Development.”
At Duke, Dr. Mirovitskaya teaches classes in Policy Analysis of Development, Research Methods, International Energy Systems, and Conflict-Sensitive Development. She has directed masters’ projects for fellows from over sixty countries, worked in executive education programs for senior government officials and provided consultancies on issues relating to conflict prevention, security and sustainable development.
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I am uchebo sylvia, I work for maple leaf early years foundation and Early years for IDPs Nigeria. We provide free quality education, feeding and clothing of over 50 internally displaced children(within the age 2-6), they are brought to school(provided by Maple leaf early years foundation from their camps(by the school bus), fed with healthy three course meals through the day and finally returned safely to their parents after school hours. This routine is done in the 5 working days of the week. We are located at no.33 gade street off Wole Soyinka Road Abuja,Nigeria. Our website is www.mapleleafkids.com This vision has been running for over a year now. Ultimately we will provide standard universities for such great kids. We do all this currently through kind donations and supports but majorly through our personal funds. The rate of IDP kids has massively increased due to the constant crisis in our country thus making us call out for support and contributions so we can save guard our future leaders.
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I am an eco school director , working on our school ‘s curriculum reform.
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Deputy Head and Research Fellow, Africa Programme, Chatham House
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I am an urban planner with 35 years experience of teaching, capacity building, research and advisory work on participatory planning, urban land management for inclusive development, slum upgrading and low income housing. My main endeavor is to mainstream inclusive processes and practices in government - local/national and support NGOs with technical assistance. I have worked mainly in India but also in Bangladesh, Philippines, Myanmar, Egypt, Korea and taught in universities in India, the Netherlands, UK, USA and Korea. My clients are local and national governments and international agencies.
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Miracle Adenitan joined the Knowledge Platform Security & Rule of Law as an intern in September 2018. Per March 2019 he continues as Project Assistant. His work focuses on supporting the Knowledge Platform Secretariat to strengthen its network in making it more sustainable and increasingly focused on learning, specifically that linked to the Knowledge Management Fund.
Previously, Miracle worked as the Advocacy Officer of the United Network of Young Peacebuilders in the Hague, where he worked on strategic projects to strengthen sustainable youth-driven peacebuilding initiatives aimed at enhancing the capacity of youth peacebuilding organisations. Prior to that, he supported the coordination of the YPS Working Group for the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict and the Youth-Led Peace crowdfunding program for Search for Common Ground with other Peacebuilding organisations.
Miracle holds a degree in Project Management at undergraduate level and a Master’s degree in Economics of Development from Erasmus University-The Hague Campus (ISS). He served as a council member in the Strategic Committee of the Institute Council at the International Institute of Social Studies in the Hague. He is a recipient of different awards including the prestigious Netherlands Fellowship in recognition of his professional and academic work.
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Researcher at CNRST; PhD in International Development Studies from the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands. I hold two doctorate degrees: 1) from the University Ouaga 2 (current Thomas Sankara University,Burkina Faso) in Development Economics and 2) from the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) in International Development Studies. I have 14 years experience on various development and research fields. I ha