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Louis-Georges Arsenault - Director of Emergency Programmes
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Mr. Louis-Georges Arsenault has been UNICEF’s Director of the Office of Emergency Programmes as of March 2008, overseeing the preparedness, response, and recovery of dozens of countries in crisis, whether natural or man-made, on a daily basis.Prior to his current posting, Mr. Arsenault was the UNICEF representative in Bangladesh since October 2005 and prior to that served as the Deputy Director, Programme Division in UNICEF New York where he provided leadership in the organization’s efforts in developing a new strategic plan aimed at achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Arsenault earlier served as the UNICEF Representative in Cambodia where his work to prevent trafficking and sexual exploitation of children led to the formulation of a national law.
As UNICEF Representative in Afghanistan from 1998 to 2001, Mr. Arsenault managed one of UNICEF’s largest humanitarian operations, including the coordination of relief and rehabilitation services to over 250,000 women, children and men displaced by war. He lobbied against the recruitment of children as soldiers, and despite the Taliban’s edicts against girls, education and women’s right to employment, initiated several projects to provide employment opportunities for women and education for girls as well as arranging private schooling for them.
Mr. Arsenault joined UNICEF in Mali in 1995.
Prior to joining UNICEF, Mr. Arsenault worked for the Canadian University Services Overseas (CUSO) as Regional Director for West Africa based in Togo. In the mid-eighties Mr. Arsenault was Director of the Canadian International Development Agency-supported bilateral project on Integrated Water Supply and Sanitation, covering the maritime region of Togo. During his tenure, water supply coverage rose from 25 to 75 per cent and immunisation coverage rose from 7 to 70 per cent. Prior to that, Mr. Arsenault worked with another Canadian non-governmental agency, Canada World Youth, which promoted non-formal education for young children, with a focus on international cooperation through youth exchange and community based development in Senegal and Morocco. In the late seventies, he served as a volunteer with SUCO, a Quebec-based Canadian NGO in Upper Volta, in a community-led integrated development project.
Louis-Georges Arsenault is a national of Canada, he has a post-graduate degree in International Public Administration from the l’Ecole Nationale d’ Admistration Publique de Montreal in Canada.
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