Thematic expertise

Elizabeth has worked across multiple areas of human rights, women’s rights, and child rights and well-being, in an evaluation, research and technical writer capacity, with significant technical expertise.

See the publications library for a list of publications by theme.

Thematic areas include:

  • International human rights law: Extensive knowledge of international law relating to child rights including international and regional human rights treaties, and thematic frameworks such as on child rights and business, Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action (CCCs) etc.
  • Child protection: Including child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM); child labour and child trafficking (including for sexual exploitation, and related to intercountry adoption); children without parental care/alternative care of children; birth registration and civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS); justice for children (J4C) and children in conflict with the law (CICL); gender-based violence (GBV); violence against children (VAC); protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) by humanitarian personnel; Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS),
  • Humanitarian and emergencies: Including disability inclusion; children affected by armed conflict (CAAC) and children associated with armed forces and armed groups (CAAFAG); children and climate change; children on the move; humanitarian response and HIV; food insecurity; GBV in emergencies (GBViE).
  • Social policy and social protection: Including public financial management (PFM) and public finance for children (PF4C); inclusive shock responsive social protection (SRSP) and cash plus approaches; child poverty; evidence and data on child deprivation; child friendly local governance (CFLG), etc.
  • Health and nutrition: Including early child development (ECD); children and adolescents living with HIV and AIDS; reproductive maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH); the COVID-19 pandemic and response; sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); adolescent health services; near real-time monitoring (NRTM) of health interventions, etc.
  • Education: Including early childhood education; out of school children; girls’ education; disability-inclusive education in emergencies (EiE); teacher policy and development; social and emotional learning (SEL) and skills.
  • Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): Including menstrual hygiene management and WASH in schools.
  • Intersectional discrimination and multisectoral programming: Utilizing cross sectoral approaches to reach the hardest to reach children, who are subject to multiple barriers and deprivations.
  • Business and human rights.
  • Earth rights and the rights of nature.
  • Indigenous rights. 

Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) expertise

Elizabeth has extensive expertise of gender mainstreaming, gender transformative approaches, targeted gender interventions, as well as disability inclusion. This includes conducting evaluations and reviews, e.g. on disability-inclusive EiE; senior team member for the global evaluation of UNICEF’s Gender Action Plan; and developing a synthesis report of 10 national gender programmatic reviews in ESAR.

Thematic GESI expertise includes on the well-being of adolescent girls; gender and disability; harmful practices; girls associated with armed forces and armed groups; sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV); trafficking for sexual exploitation; sexualisation of children; girls in conflict with the law; girls and education, etc.

Liberty & Humanity

“Conceptions of earth right and human rights can both be found in indigenous societies, but are seamlessly integrated in support of each other. This stands in contrast to conceptions of earth rights and human rights in the Global North where these frameworks can clash, for example either through denying Nature Rights, or through a forest guard system which views nature as a distinct entity to be protected from humans, and denies many indigenous rights as a result.”

Read more in my book chapter here.