National Forum on Children - Bios
Prospects for the future in the current challenging context
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Session 1.1: Prospect for children in the COVID-19 pandemic context – global, regional and national outlook
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Laurence Chandy was appointed as UNICEF’s first Director of the Office of Global Insight and Policy in August 2019. He previously served as UNICEF’s Director of Data, Research and Policy, a position he held from 2017. Mr. Chandy came to UNICEF from the Brookings Institution where for 7 years he was a Fellow in the Global Economy and Development program. There he conducted research on global poverty, fragile states, aid effectiveness, and globalization. His work, including through his membership of the Atkinson Commission on Global Poverty, shaped reforms in global poverty measurement, and helped make the case for establishing the goal to end extreme poverty by 2030. He has worked in a number of countries, supporting governments in Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and the Pacific on a variety of economic and institutional reforms, and has led efforts in the delivery and receipt of foreign aid. Mr. Chandy was formerly a consultant at Adam Smith International, where his work included advising the president of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernández, on the country’s energy sector and debt reforms. He served for two years as a senior economist in the Department of National Planning in Papua New Guinea. He also worked as a speechwriter to former president of the World Bank, James Wolfensohn. Mr. Chandy graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford University, with a M.A. in philosophy, politics and economics and M.Sc. in development economics. Presenting: Prospects for Children: A Global Outlook through 2025 |
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As social policy regional adviser, Matthew Cummins leads UNICEF’s engagement on public finance and social protection in Eastern and Southern Africa. He has previously worked with UNDP, the World Bank as well as a Peace Corps Volunteer. He has written more than 50 publications on social policy topics and holds a master’s degree in international economics from Johns Hopkins SAIS. Presenting: From Crisis to Catastrophe: the trajectory of Mozambique’s children in the absence of big policy and funding changes |
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Fiseha Haile is the Senior Country Economist for Mozambique in the World Bank’s Global Practice for Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment. Previously, he worked as a country economist in West and East Africa. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Copenhagen and has published in a number of economics and development journals. His main professional and academic interests lie in structural policies for economic growth and poverty reduction, fiscal and debt sustainability, and political economy. Presenting: Mozambique Economic Update. Setting the stage for recovery |
Session 1.2: COVID-19 impact on households and families. Policy options
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Andy McKay joined as Director of the Young Lives research programme in July 2020 having previously been Professor of Development Economics at the University of Sussex. In recent years he has led or co-led two research projects looking at female labour issues, including an IDRC/DFID/Hewlett funded project on School to Work transition in six sub-Saharan African countries. In joining Young Lives, he has continued this focus on youth through being actively involved in the programme’s core Young Live at Work programme, including the programmes’ current COVID-19 Phone Surveys. This he combines with leading the programme, working closely with partners in the countries and in Oxford, as well as engaging in fundraising activities. Presenting: Young Lives Interrupted: Short-Term Effects Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Adolescents In Ethiopia, India, Peru And Vietnam |
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Richard Freund joined Young Lives as a Quantitative Research Assistant in 2020. He holds a Bachelor of Business Science from the University of Cape Town and an MSc in Economics for Development from the University of Oxford. His current research focuses on child multidimensional poverty, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on multiple aspects of well-being. Richard is the co-founder of Periods For Hope – a non-profit organization based in South Africa which aims to empower learners through sexual health workshops and dialogues focused on menstruation, gender, self-esteem, and gender-based violence. Presenting: Young Lives Interrupted: Short-Term Effects Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Adolescents In Ethiopia, India, Peru And Vietnam |
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Daniel Nivagara graduated in Pedagogy and Psychology at the Pedagogical Institute of Maputo in 1995. He continued his studies at the University of Nantes, in France, where he obtained a master's degree in Education Sciences in 2001 and in 2007 he completed his doctorate in the same field. Daniel Nivagara has been lecturing at the Pedagogical University of Maputo (UP) since 1995. He held the position of Head of Department of Basic Education from 2004 to 2008. He then rose to the position of Faculty Director, between 2008 and 2017. Currently, Daniel Nivagara holds the position of Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES) in Mozambique. Presenting: Children’s learning and family welfare during the 2020 school closure in Mozambique - Results of the Rapid Learn Telephone survey |
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Carlos Alexandre Lauchande is a PhD in Assessment and quality Assurance, with over 20 years of experience in the implementation and analysis of quantitative surveys and studies. He is a lecturer at the Pedagogical University of Maputo (UP). Since 2000, Mr. Lauchande has served as an independent consultant for designing sampling frameworks and databases, supervising data entry and data cleaning, and preparing analyses and associated recommendations for a wide range of assignments. The education sector has been a central focus of his work, as consultant in large scale assessment studies with the Ministry of Education. Between 1999 and 2017, Carlos Alexandre Lauchande worked on Mozambique’s contribution to the regional SACMEQ II, in 2000, SACMEQ III in 2007 and SACMEQ IV in 2014. He has been working as Statistical Consultant for the Ministry of Education, for all SACMEQ evaluation, he was in charge of data analyses and report writing. Additionally, he has overseen data collection and data analysis of national assessment of Grade 3 in 2013 and 2016. The main focus of the national assessment is the evaluation reading skills, pupils’ characteristics and their learning environments. He received his Master’s in Educational Studies in Statistics from the University of Adelaide, Australia, and a Ph.D. at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, which doctoral dissertation title was “Systemic factors associated with Grade 6 learner’s achievement in Mozambique”. Presenting: Children’s learning and family welfare during the 2020 school closure in Mozambique - Results of the Rapid Learn Telephone survey |
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Valeria Isabel Muando is a Medical Doctor with Ph.D. in Tropical diseases and Global Health from University of Lisbon and Master in Paediatric Emergency. Currently, Valeria Muambo is a Medical Doctor at Hospital Central de Maputo and National Director of the Paediatric Program for the Ministry of Health, Mozambique. Presenting: Psychological effects of COVID-19 on child health in Mozambique |
Session 2.1: Challenges and opportunities of the youth bulge
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Angela Baschieri is the Population Dynamics Policy Adviser at UNFPA Regional Office based in Johannesburg. She supports the delivery of evidence-based advocacy and policy dialogue/advice in the area of population dynamics and its developmental implications in the East and Southern Africa Region. She is an economic demographer, international development specialist and statistician with over 18 years of experience spanning academic research, policy development, project implementation, monitoring and evaluation. She was an Associate Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and has published over 40 peer reviewed publications on population and development issues. She worked with UNICEF Ethiopia as Research and Evaluation Specialist and with the Department of International Development of the UK Government (DFID) as a Health and Population Advisor, where she provided technical and programmatic advice to population and reproductive health policies and programmes. Presenting: Lessons learnt in the operationalization of Demographic Dividend in East and Southern Africa |
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Carlos Arnaldo is a researcher and the current Director of the Center for African Studies (CEA) of Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) in Maputo. Professor of Demography at UEM, he held the position of Deputy Director for Postgraduate Studies and Research at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from 2004 to 2007 and became Deputy Director for Research and Extension at the CEA from 2007 to 2015. Carlos Arnaldo holds a PhD in Demography (2003) and 'a Master’s degree in Population Studies (1999) from the Australian National University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Geography (1996) from the Eduardo Mondlane University. His areas of interest include the production of estimates of population dynamics, population policies, fertility, reproductive health, and HIV and AIDS. Presenting: Sociodemographic profile of the children and development prospects in Mozambique |
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Ricardo Santos is a Research Fellow of the United Nations University World Institute of Development Economics Research – UNU-WIDER, stationed in Maputo, Mozambique, as Technical Advisor to the Centre of Economics and Management Studies at the Faculty of Economics of Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM). His doctoral research examined the post-conflict labour market and education sector in Timor-Leste, looking at the medium-run impact of exposure to violence and conflict produce on the households ’choices regarding education. His recent research has focused on the Mozambican labour market, school-to-work transition and on poverty and inequality. His previous work in the development field includes voluntary work for one year in Timor-Leste as a member of a Portuguese NGO and, Program Manager for Timor-Leste and Angola and Deputy Executive Officer of the same NGO. Presenting: The challenges of school-to-work transition for Mozambican youth - insights from two surveys |
Session 2.2: Innovative solutions to mitigate risks and accelerate progress for children and youth
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Shiraz Chakera is the Education Specialist focused on quality education and learning in the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO). Shiraz Chakera has nearly twenty years of experience working to improve education systems working in the UK, his home country, India, Botswana and now working across the Eastern and Southern Africa region focusing on improving learning outcomes. Over his career, he has led change in the areas of pedagogy and assessment, teacher development, promoting equity and inclusion and harnessing technology to improve teaching and learning Shiraz holds a Master’s degree in Education and International Development from the UCL Institute of Education, London. Presenting: The “leapfrogs” that can transform learning in Eastern and Southern Africa |
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António José Beleza is an internationally recognized humanitarian aid specialist with extensive experience in emergency response missions in Mozambican and in the international context. He currently holds the position of Deputy National Director of the National Operational Center for Emergencies (CENOE) at the National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC) in Mozambique. Antonio José Beleza was the driving force behind the creation of the drone coordination unit for humanitarian assistance. He leads the integration of drone technology into emergency preparedness and response operations in Mozambique, including South-South collaboration with other international disaster management agencies in the region (Madagascar and Eswatini), since 2016. Presenting: The use of drones in emergency response in Mozambique |
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Dayn Amade is a 41-year-old Mozambican entrepreneur dedicated in closing the Digital Exclusion gap that is often associated with the absence of quality education and empowerment in various Rural Communities of third world countries. In 2015, after a series of drawings designs and imagination Dayn Amade and his team built from scratch in Mozambique a mobile digital infrastructure powered by solar panels, with audio visual and interactive solutions to eradicate the digital exclusion challenges faced in those communities. This infrastructure was nick named the Community Tablet. Presenting: A Digital mobile Infrastructure powered by solar panels for community communication |
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Amândia Aurora Jotamo graduated in Chemistry from the Pedagogical University and completed a master’s degree in Public Administration at the Instituto Superior de Administração, now University Alberto Joaquim Chissano, in Maputo. Presenting: Experience in Implementing the Program: Creating the Mozambican Scientist of Tomorrow |
Session 2.3: Children’s rights and the business sector
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Fernando Casado Cañeque is the founder and director of GlobalCAD, bringing together +20 years’ experience working with international organizations in the development field. He is a Ph.D. economist and journalist specialized in projects related to economic and sustainable development. He has worked as strategic advisor to a variety of international organizations (UNDP, UNIDO, UNICEF, UNEP, OECD, IADB, World Bank, etc.) and has been the General Coordinator of UNDP’s Millennium Development Goals initiative. He has also worked as a Senior Consultant in the Department of Sustainable Development and Social Responsibility at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in New York. He is specialized managing projects promoting the achievement of development goals and cross-sectoral public-private partnerships improving aid efficiency. He is author of several books on CSR and development (such as “Public-Private partnerships for Development”; “Public-Private Concertation for Development in Latin America” or “CSR at the mirror”; among others), as well as of a range of articles on development economics, globalization and sustainability. Fernando Casado holds a Ph.D. from the Central University of Barcelona in Economic and Social Sciences; a Master´s from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of Columbia University specialized in Economic Development and Journalism; and a postgraduate degree in Environmental Management from the University of Barcelona’s Institute for Public Economics. He is a professionally accredited partnership broker (Partnership Brokers Accreditation Scheme), a certified Master Trainer of the IFC-SME Toolkit of the World Bank and certified with the GIZ Capacity Works framework. Presenting: An overview of the business landscape in Mozambique: What could the private sector do to protect and respect children’s rights? |
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Adriano Alfredo Nuvunga is the Director of the Center for Democracy and Development (CDD), a Democracy, Governance and Human Rights Organization in Mozambique. He is the Chair of the Budget Monitoring Forum (FMO), a platform of coalitions and organizations focusing on Budget and Public Finance Management. Adriano Nuvunga chairs the newly established Mozambique Network of Human Rights Defenders. He is also a member of the Board of the Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN). Furthermore, Adriano Nuvunga is a member of the Board of the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), based in Accra, Ghana. He is also a member of INCLUDE, the Knowledge Platform on Inclusive Development Policies of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Professor Nuvunga teaches political science and governance at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique. His next book examines the Political Economy of Mozambique’s Gas Development. Presenting: Children’s Rights and Business |
Session 3.1: Climate change, resilience, and sustainability
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Samuel is a Chartered Civil Engineer with a PhD and MSc in Water and Environmental Engineering from Loughborough University, UK and two bachelor’s degrees in Engineering (BEng) and International Development (BA) from the UK. He has 23 years of professional experience in the Water, Sanitation, Climate, Environment and Energy Sector which includes 17 years with UNICEF in the Madhya Pradesh, India field office (2004-2008), UNICEF Mozambique Country Office (2008-2013), UNICEF Ethiopia Country Office (2013-2018) and UNICEF East and Southern Africa Regional Office - ESARO (2018 to date). Prior to joining UNICEF, he was a researcher and academic in International Water Development at WEDC, UK where he developed skills and interest in climate and environmental child centered, data analysis and multisector programming. He has subsequently published more than 40 academic papers between 2000 and 2020 in this area. He is the co-author of the ESAR Climate Crisis and Children report and is currently leading the UNICEF Strategic Plan Goal Area five output area in ESAR which includes water supply, sanitation, disaster risk reduction, children in urban settings and environmental sustainability. Presenting: The Climate Crisis and its implications for children in Eastern and southern Africa region |
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António Joaquim Queface is a Program Coordinator on Disaster Risk Management and Resilience in Mozambique, based at National Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (INGD). He also served as Senior Lecturer of Meteorology and Climatology at the Physics Department of the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) in Mozambique. He received BSc Hons degree in Meteorology at UEM in Mozambique, M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Climatology at University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. He is a Climatologist with research interests on aerosol climatology, climate change and disaster risk studies. He has been playing an important role in formulation of strategies, policies and training programmes, in view of ongoing and future climate change. Presenting: Climate change in Mozambique - Possible policy adaptations in the context of the global crisis |
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Silva Magaia completed a degree in Civil Engineering from Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) in 1987 and a Master's degree in the same field at the University of the Witwatersrand, in 2004. He served as a lecturer at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) from 1988 to 2009. He was the Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, Deputy Director and Director of the Faculty of Engineering at UEM, from 1989 to 1994. Silva Magaia is a founding member of the Ordem dos Engenheiros de Mocambique (Engineering Council of Mozambique). From 2003 to 2010, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Road Fund. He also was the City Councilor of Urban Planning and Environment for the Municipality of Maputo, from 2005 to 2009. He managed UN-Habitat in Mozambique (2009-2012) and was Advisor to the Resettlement Program of the Limpopo National Park (2012-2016). From 2016 to 2019, he was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Maputo South Development Company, ensuring management of Maputo Ring Road project, Maputo-KaTembe Bridge project and Katembe-Boane-Ponta D'Ouro Link Roads project. In 2019 and 2020, he was the Program Coordinator of WSUP (Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor). Silva Magaia is currently City Councilor for Territorial Planning, Environment and Urbanization at the Municipality of Maputo. Presenting: Children and Climate Change: Environment and Infrastructure |
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Inês Raymundo serves as lecturer in the Department of Geography at Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) and also works as a researcher for the Centre for Policy Analysis at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UEM. She holds a degree in Geography from UEM, a master’s degree in Human Geography from the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) and a PhD in Forced Migration, also from the University of the Witwatersrand. Inês Raimundo coordinates projects in the field of migration for SAMP (Southern African Migration Programme) and MIAG (Migration for African Inclusive Growth). Her main research areas include forced migration and cross-border migration, urban food security and environmental studies. Presenting: Floods, Cyclones and Droughts: The Major Challenges facing the Riverine Population along the Limpopo Valley |
Session 3.2: Impact of Conflict on Children and collective pathways to resilient communities
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Tasha Gill is the Senior Adviser for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action at UNICEF Headquarters. She has more than 20 years of experience as a child protection and humanitarian expert for UNICEF, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the U.S. Government. Prior to this role, Tasha Gill was a Humanitarian Advisor at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, where she focused on humanitarian crises in Africa and peacekeeping. Previously, Tasha was the Country Director of IRC in Mali. She has served as a Child Protection Specialist for UNICEF Country Offices in Uganda, Nepal, Madagascar, and Democratic Republic of Congo. She holds a Master Degree from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York. Presenting: Floods, The global situation of children and armed conflict |
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Judy Kimano is a peacebuilding specialist with 16 years of progressive experience with multi sectoral programs with specialization in gender inclusive governance, public policy development, advocacy and youth. She has specialized expertise in the design and quality assurance of conflict prevention and peace building programs; working with communities and States to enhance healthy citizen participation for improved governance and stability. Experience in mainstreaming of crosscutting themes including youth, gender, human rights, and inclusion of marginalized groups. She has led conflict transformation efforts along the Swahili Coast- Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique working with non-state partners, State partners and development agencies to build societal infrastructure for enabling lasting peace. Judy is with Search for Common Ground based in Kenya. Presenting: Building resilient, inclusive and peaceful communities in Swahili coast |
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Clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, Boia Efraime Junior worked with refugee children and adolescents separated from their parents in Berlin, from 1992 to 1994, at the psychological counseling office Xenion and at the Karl Boenhoffer Psychiatric Hospital. From 1994 to 2002, he worked at ARES, Associação Reconstruindo a Esperança, on the project of psychosocial and psychotherapeutic care for former child soldiers at Josina Machel Island and Manjacaze Island, in Mozambique. This pilot project combined psychoanalytic care with healing practices and concepts of the rural culture of southern Mozambique. From 2008 to 2015, he worked for the ARES project for preventing sexual violence against children "Este corpo é meu.” (“This body is mine."). Boia Efraime Junior holds a degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Humbolt, Berlin and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Cologne, Hamburg. He is a visiting professor at ICESI University in Colombia for the Master of Social Interventions. Currently, he works as a psychoanalyst in private practice and also as a consultant for international humanitarian organizations. Presenting: The psycho-traumatological impact on children and adolescents and reflections on possibilities for prevention, rehabilitation and therapy |
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Reverend Dinis Matsolo is the current Chairman of the Justice, Peace and Reconciliation Commission of the Christian Council of Mozambique (CCM) and Executive Director of PIRCOM (Inter-religious Program Against Malaria), with experience in leading religious NGOs. Over 35 years of work at national and international level. Highlights of previous responsibilities: Former General Secretary of the Christian Council of Mozambique; Ex-President of the Coalition for Peace in Africa; former Rector of the Ecumenical Seminary of Ricatla; former Chairperson of the Electoral Observatory and Board member of the APRM (MARP)-Mozambique. He is also involved in paving ways and facilitating dialogue towards Building a Culture of PEACE in our Country and in the Region and Conflict Resolution and/or Transformation Facilitator. Dinis Matsolo is Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa – Mozambique Synod (Igreja Metodista Wesleyana em Mozambique), since 2012. He holds BTh (Honours) in Leadership and Development by Natal University and several Diplomas and Certificates on theological training, Leadership and Development, Ecumenism, Peace Building and Conflict Resolution/Transformation obtained in various international institutions of higher level such as The Eastern Menonnite University, Bossey Ecumenical Institute in Geneva, the Swedish Theological Institute in Jerusalem, amongst others. Presenting: Protection of Children in Crisis Situations: Our Unconditional Responsibility |