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Jody Williams is a consultant with invaluable expertise in research in child rights and welfare policy advocacy. Presently, Jody is the Senior Consultant at JMK Consulting since 2006. Jody has numerous experiences in child-centered programming and the development of child protection policies in Ghana. Jody's research interest includes action research with vulnerable groups, such as children, project affected persons, utilizing the counterfactual impact evaluation approach (essentially quantitative) and the theory-based impact evaluation (generally qualitative) methodologies. In the past years, Jody has conducted different research projects with the vulnerable population in Ghana, specifically focusing on the development of intervention models for child laborers in Ghana
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Beth is an independent consultant in Disability Inclusive Development, focusing mainly on disability-inclusive education and disability measurement. Her PhD focused on validation of the UNICEF/Washington Group Child Functioning Module in Fiji, for the purpose of disability disaggregation of Fiji's Education Management Information System (FEMIS).
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Mohsen is a policy entrepreneur whose doctoral research work at Universities of Nottingham and Oxford focused on critically analysing how youth volunteering can be mainstreamed in multi-level environmental governance processes in Pakistan. He has co-founded ‘Green Box’, Pakistan's first youth-driven engagement lab nurturing sustainability leadership and climate change resilience in Pakistan. Mohsen has over 8 years of diverse experience in the international development sector and has undertaken several research and advocacy assignments with UNESCO, UNDP and UN Volunteers in the UK, Thailand, Kenya, Brazil and Nepal. Mohsen was selected as UN Young Champion of the Earth (Asia and the Pacific) regional finalist 2019 and won Emerging Star for Policy Impact award 2019 at the University of Nottingham.
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I work for EIU Public Policy Consulting, the B2B research and analysis arm of The Economist Group, publisher of The Economist magazine. We work with the non-profit sector including foundations, multi-laterals, governments, and NGOs to inform their policy advocacy and strategy around key topics and themes in line with the UN SDGs via macroeconomic evidence-based research, risk and scenario analysis, benchmark, impact assessment, and forecasting on countries, cities and industries.
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I am a research fellow at UNESCO working at the Inclusive Policy Lab. I hold a BA in Political Science from McGill University and an MSc in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford. My research utilizes both quantitative and qualitative methods to identify causal conditions and outcomes for the political, economic, and social inclusion of persons with disabilities.