Child protection

  • Promise projects

    Promise projects

    Since 2023, I have been offering expert support in the research, drafting and dissemination of guidance, toolkit and knowledge materials on child trafficking, child protection policies and child sexual online abuse.

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  • UNODC – Global Programme to End Violence against Children

    UNODC – Global Programme to End Violence against Children

    September 2022- ongoing | I provide support in the implementation of the EU-UNODC Strive Juvenile Project in Nigeria and carried out a technical assistance needs assessment on child justice in Punjab, Pakistan.

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  • MOSAIC: Monitoring safety of children in detention in the EU

    MOSAIC: Monitoring safety of children in detention in the EU

    2023 – I lead the European research and analysis activities aimed at mapping the current situation of data collection on violence against children (VAC) in criminal justice detention facilities for children in EU member states, identifying good practices as well as structural problems gaps, needs and barriers in existing data…

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  • FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION/CUTTING IN SAMBURU COUNTY AND FOSTER CARE FOR CHILDREN IN NEED OF PROTECTION IN KENYA: FEASIBILITY STUDIES

    FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION/CUTTING IN SAMBURU COUNTY AND FOSTER CARE FOR CHILDREN IN NEED OF PROTECTION IN KENYA: FEASIBILITY STUDIES

    2016-2017 | As an independent research consultant of the Italian NGO “Albero della Vita”, operating in Kenya, I conducted the research on the field and drafted the two feasibility studies, one on female genital mutilation (FGM) in Samburu County (Northern Kenya) and one on alternative care solutions for children in need…

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  • STRENGTHENING HUMAN RIGHTS IN CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES IN KENYA

    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…

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  • STOPPING VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILD DOMESTIC WORKERS THROUGH REGULATION AND EDUCATION

    STOPPING VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILD DOMESTIC WORKERS THROUGH REGULATION AND EDUCATION

    2014- 2016 | As an independent consultant for CEFA, I conducted a research in the context of the Kenyan survey, on child domestic work, and drafted the Legal and Policy assessment in the framework of child domestic work in Kenya.

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  • PROJECT PRAESIDIUM

    PROJECT PRAESIDIUM

    2014 – 2015 | As Monitoring Officer for Save the Children Italy, I was in charge of the monitoring the living conditions of unaccompanied migrant children in reception centres across Sicily. I visited and collected information from more than hundred reception centres spread across the 9 provinces in Sicily, interviewing…

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