FOCUS ON MY NEEDS: WORKING TOGETHER FOR CHILDREN IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

2020-2022 | As Terre des hommes in-house consultant, I supported the FOCUS core team of experts to provide technical guidance and quality assurance for the research and capacity building activities.

PROGRAMME“ENFANCE SANS BARREAUX” (2018 – 2021) IN WESTERN AFRICA

December 2021 I provided expertise on restorative justice with children for the evaluation of the second phase of the programme“Enfance sans Barreaux” (2018 – 2021) in Western Africa and drafted an in-depth note to the technical evaluation report, on restorative justice with children with key recommendations for the next phase of the programme.

I-RESTORE: PROTECTING CHILD VICTIMS THROUGH RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

2019-2021 | As independent consultant on child justice, I was member of the Restorative Justice Advisory Board, that provides feedback on the materials produced and ensure quality throughout. I provided feedback on the methodology used for the European research and on the training handbook and materials developed by the experts from the European Forum for Restorative Justice (EFRJ) and Restorative Justice Netherlands (RJN).

TRAINING TRAINERS IN MEDIATION AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE – THE TOOLKIT OF THE ERASMUS+ PROJECT MEDIAREJ

I co-authored the article in the toolkit on “Restorative justice with children and young people in relation to criminal behaviour“. This toolkit is a collection of articles that focus on different areas of application for mediation and restorative justice and that present each area with practical implications and suggestions aimed at supporting trainers on restorative justice.

PAN-AFRICAN RESEARCH ON RESTORATIVE JUSTICE WITH CHILDREN

2018-2020 | As lead consultant in a team of researchers, I harmonised and consolidated data on diversion and restorative justice with child offenders, collected from six African countries: Burundi, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, Somalia and Kenya.

UN GLOBAL STUDY ON CHILDREN DEPRIVED OF THEIR LIBERTY

2018- 2019 | I was part of the team leading the research and drafting of chapter 5 – Children deprived of liberty in the Administration of Justice for the UN Global Study on children deprived of liberty.

AWAY: ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO ADDRESS YOUTH

2017 – 2019 | The EU funded project AWAY aimed to ensure that multidisciplinary professionals are more aware and better equipped concerning diversion for arrested/suspected children.

As an independent consultant for Terre des hommes, I compiled and drafted the final report of the project.

Advancing Defence Children Rights

2017-2018 | Coordination of the project for IJJO; contributing to the “Advancing the Defence Rights of Children Manual for Practitioners”

The prevention of Juvenile Radicalisation:promoting the use to alternatives to detention

2017-2018 | Coordination of the project for IJJO; co-authoring the manual “Prevention of Juvenile radicalisation”

STRENGTHENING HUMAN RIGHTS IN CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES IN KENYA

2012-2016 I conducted research on human rights in the criminal justice and correctional system in Kenya using primary data – collected through direct observation and face to face semistructured interviews to inmates and prisons’ officers – and secondary data gathered from desk review of the legal framework, statistics, reports from state and non-state actors who work in the criminal justice system in Kenya, and other relevant literature.