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