CANCELLED! Globalization and the Multilateral System: The New Aid Environment
Gary Stahl
Tuesday, 02 Dec 2008 at 6:00 pm – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall
DO TO A WEATHER-RELATED ACCIDENT THIS SPEAKER WAS CANCELLED.Gary Stahl is the deputy director for UNICEF's program funding office at the United Nations. He has been working for children's rights in a variety of settings. He has helped provide basic education, water and protection services to those in refugee camps in post-genocide Rwanda and has identified innovative ways to include the peoples of the Amazon and the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua in national basic social services system. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.
Quote:
"There still aren't enough resources for humanitarian work, but the general trend has shifted in the last few years and UNICEF income has increased faster than we expected."
Gary Stahl Biography:
He joined UNICEF in October 1994 as Coordinator of the Emergency Operation in Southwest Rwanda where he oversaw program activities for over 400,000 internally displaced people, and then moved to Kigali in 1995 as Chief of Field Operations. Previously, he served as Programme Officer in Lima, Peru in a programme targeting areas of extreme poverty in the Andes, the Amazon and marginal urban zones. He was also second to the NetAid Foundation as Chief Operating Officer, Vice President of Programmes and Foundation Treasurer, and served as UNICEF Representative in Managua, Nicaragua. He graduated from The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1994 as a John F. Kennedy Fellow and from Iowa State University in 1983. He worked worked on Social and Economic Project Appraisal at the Harvard Institute for International Development before joining UNICEF.
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