Lisa Woods, Communications Consultant. Southeast Asia was her stomping ground as she worked for UNICEF as a research and communications consultant. Ms. Woods has contracted with UNICEF Lao PDR, UNICEF Cambodia, UNICEF China, UNICEF EAPRO, UNICEF ROSA, ADRA Asia, and Plan Asia as a research consultant. Ms. Woods has researched projects for UNICEF on topics from emergency preparedness to child protection and health and nutrition.
Lisa Woods (UNICEF Consultant) 2006:The United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) is an EFA Declaration Flagship. UNICEF, as global coordinator of the UNGEI flagship, is actively striving to build expanded partnerships for bold initiatives. The East Asia Regional UNGEI team was formed in 2002 and has identified the development of a Best Practices document as a key activity in the 2006 work plan. The Regional UNGEI Team prepared and nomination process for case studies and 8 have been selected. These projects are being supported in 6 countries by ILO, UNESCO, Plan, DFID, UNICEF, ministries and NGOs. This assignment entailed preparing a case study of the “ILO/IPEC Action Programmeusing education to combat child domestic labor” in Indonesia.
What I did - Conducted semi-structured interviews with children, parents, teachers, politicians, police
officers, community workers and other UN partners working with ILO-IPEC in Indonesia to
prevent and eliminate exploitative child domestic work through education and training.
- Prepared a case study that documented the work of ILO-IPEC in Indonesia for inclusion in the
regional UNGEI Best Practices compilation document.
Lisa Woods has been Communications Consultant for the UNICEF, PLAN Asia, and ADRA Asia. Lisa Woods has contracted for the country offices of UNICEF Lao PDR, UNICEF Cambodia, UNICEF China, UNICEF EAPRO, UNICEF ROSA.
