CLEAR-RIGHTS: ENHANCING LEGAL ASSISTANCE AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR CHILDREN IN CONFLICT WITH THE LAW IN EUROPE

As Terre des hommes in-house consultant, I provided technical guidance and quality assurance for methodology, review of practices of legal aids in Europe, and the development of a child-led digital legal assessment tool. T

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.

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.

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.

Improving Kenya Juvenile Justice System

2014-2016 | Project coordination, human resources management, monitoring and reporting, communication and fundraising tasks for the overall Child Protection Programme; contributed to the publication “Guidelines Manual on Juvenile Justice Practices”

KEEPING YOUTH AWAY FROM CRIME: SEARCHING FOR BEST EUROPEAN PRACTICES

2013- 2015 | As independent research consultant for IJJO, I contributed to the European study of good practices collected from Austria, Belgium, England and Wales, Italy, Scotland, Sweden, in the Netherlands, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.