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Angela Kohama is the Inclusive Livelihood Policy Officer at Humanity & Inclusion, where she sits in HI's global technical support unit on inclusive economic development. Angela supports field teams in designing, implementing and evaluating high quality disability and gender inclusive economic development programs across Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. She is also responsible for designing, promoting and coordinating technical assistance on disability - inclusive employment and livelihoods to mainstream international development and multinational corporations in low and middle income countries. Angela follows livelihood trends within the international development space and private sector, promoting innovation and inclusion throughout. Prior to her role at HI, Angela worked for Disabled People’s Organizations and NGOs in India, Timor-Leste and the U.S. Angela hold a MPA in Development Practice from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and a BA from University of Oregon in International Studies, with minors in Special Education and Religious Studies.
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Pallavi Nuka executes policy and strategy at the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance. Her responsibilities include financial, academic, and operational management. Prior to joining the center, she was the Associate Director of the Innovations for Successful Societies research program, which explores issues of governance and policy implementation in challenging contexts and she was a Visiting Lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School and a Research Coordinator in the Department of Politics at Princeton. She has a background in impact evaluation and has conducted research on governance, environment, and development. She worked with the World Bank-Global Environment Facility's Evaluation Office for six years, assessing the design, performance, and impact of the Bank’s investments, with a focus on climate change adaptation, conservation of biodiversity, and land degradation. From 1999-2001, she was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bangolo, Cote d'Ivoire. She has a B.S. from MIT and an M.P.A. from Princeton University.
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Communication Officer for Humanity & Inclusion, formally known as Handicap International. Humanity & Inclusion aspires to an inclusive world, enriched by our differences, where people with disabilities and vulnerable people live in dignity.
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Olivier PIEUME is a specialist in vocational training and the labor market. He has been working for UNESCO for about eight years. He currently serves as Regional Advisor for Africa. He holds a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Paris Est and the University of Montreal (cotutelle). He also holds a degree in Statistical Engineering and Economics. Before joining UNESCO, Olivier PIEUME was in turn a lecturer at the University of Yaoundé I in Cameroon and statistician-economist at the Ministry in charge of economics and planning. Dr. Olivier PIEUME has so far supported more than fifteen African countries in the analysis and planning of education and training policies related to employment. He has to his credit about fifteen scientific publications in international journals.
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Head of Culture and Cultural Heritage Division
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Dr Amrita Lamba is a postdoctoral researcher on the EU funded project in understanding migration governance, and agricultural and rural change across Europe, Asia and Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her main tasks are related to the qualitative comparative analysis process in the project. Her research has focused on the analysis of inclusive governance, particularly in natural resources and urban development in Brazil, South Africa and India. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in these countries, including the Inkomati basin and the Bushbuckridge region in South Africa; and the Jaguaribe basin, Ceará and the Verde para Sempre extractive reserve in the Brazilian Amazon. More recently she led a pilot study on urban change in Bangalore, India
Her PhD at SOAS tested the practical adequacy of an analytical framework for inclusive governance through comparative analyses of natural resources governance processes in Brazil and South Africa. The study also developed and tested the practicality of a method for qualitative comparative analysis grounded in critical realist ontology. Her other major areas of interest include innovations in institutional design, forced migration, poverty alleviation, adaptation and climate change.
As a Bartlett research fellow at the Institute for Global Prosperity and the Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, Amrita’s work examined the interconnections between healthy built environment, resources nexus and urban governance through comparison across cities in developing countries. She was a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, where she convened a course on natural resources and development. She has also been a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the theory, policy and practice of development and the political ecology of development. Previously, she has worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the UNDP.
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Niamh works with the Maynooth University Department of International Development as a lecturer on BA and MA in International Development programmes. Her areas of experience and interest include the planning, organisation, and management of development programmes and organisations, with a particular focus on participatory, human rights, and results based approaches. Niamh is an advocate for sustainable development and emphasises the importance of sustainability through her work.
Niamh has a keen interest in the conflicts and contradictions between development theory and practice, particularly those that she explores and experiences through the critical perspectives of development practitioners who she encounters locally and globally.
In addition to her role on the academic programmes, Niamh also acts as academic coordinator of the Departments’ Capacity Development Services and facilitates continuous professional development learning events in Ireland and overseas with a focus on results based planning and management, and results based monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
Niamh has experience working with NGOs, CSOs, donors, and communities in Europe and across continents and contexts, including Asia (Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, Sri Lanka), Africa (Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa), South America (Venezuela), and the Middle East (Palestine, Israel).
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Gilbert Achcar is Professor of development studies and international relations at the SOAS, University of London. His many books include: The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder (2002, 2006); Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy, co-authored with Noam Chomsky (2007, 2008); The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives (2010); The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising (2013); and Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (2016).
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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.