Singapore
I am a dedicated international development and cooperation specialist with extensive experience working in governance, child protection and participatory development. Throughout my work, my most effective tools have been my strategic thinking, collaborative ethos, and communication skills, that have been instrumental in finding common ground for meaningful collaborations between government agencies, civil society organisations, community partners, as well as interdisciplinary teams across diverse geographies. One of my main passions is to harness participatory approaches to drive collaboration and innovation to push the frontiers of current knowledge and evidence-based solutions. I have an interdisciplinary background in Cultural Anthropology(M.Sc), International Development and Political Science (B.A), and enjoy engaging with these perspectives to work towards positive social change.
• Member of Safe Digital Childhood Task Team • Employee Forum Representative for department of 164 staff across 93 countries
• member of Good Governance Technical Working Group
• Provide technical expertise and lead process, together with technical experts, partners, civil society, and academia to develop innovative child rights & participation guidance and case studies building on emerging local, regional, and global practices and evidence in child rights programming • Oversee, plan, and manage implementation and quality assurance of global-facing project activities; ensure that they are of high quality and impact • Develop and promote Child Centred Social Accountability Common Approach Implementation guidance with coordinated input from cross-thematic technical experts • Design, implement and monitor project’s communications strategy; ensure that monitoring and evaluation data successfully feed into strategic improvements • Establish Save the Children’s global child advisory body, working closely with regional and country level youth advisory bodies; Engaging directly with children and young people to gather their views, understand their needs to influence SC’s strategy and decision-making processes.
• Collaborated with government agencies, community partners, NGOs, families and children to identify and address protection risks experienced by children, and strengthen community based child protection mechanisms • Designed and developed programmes and interventions to safeguard vulnerable children from violence and sexual exploitation • Led collaborative monitoring, evaluation and assessment of interventions at inter-agency and multi-disciplinary review platforms to ensure children’s rights are realised and protected • Partnered with government agencies, community partners, families, and children to improve coordination, share learning and enhance psychosocial support • Drove and facilitated bottom-up knowledge development at national level: institutionalized evidence-based approaches; participated in knowledge-sharing workgroups and advocated practice transformative initiatives Trained in: • Trauma Systems Therapy • Partnering for Safety (PFS) in Child Protection - PFS approach is a collaborative, safety-focused and community-centred approach to child protection assessment and planning • Child Forensic Interviewing • Basic Gestalt Play Therapy • Systems thinking • Collaborative story-telling for children in transition • Solutions-focused interviewing
• Conducted research on the socio-economic integration of refugee and migrant children and youth in cities of the global south • Partnership and resource mobilisation: responsible for funding and proposal development for project to build resource networks among stakeholders in the Global South to enhance strategic capacities in the prevention of violent extremism (PVE)