A/HRC/33/3
Description: Coordinator of the Projects “Introduction of the Rights of the Child in the
curriculum of the Ministry of Education”; and “Children Affected by the Armed Conflict.”
UNICEF, El Salvador 1993
Position: Consultant (Programme coordinator)
Description: Person in charge of the Program “Minors in Specially Difficult Circumstances.
Handling funds, drawing up of donors´ reports, coordination and supervision of activities,
meetings of regional coordination with personnel of UNICEF in charge of similar programs
in Central America.
Coordinator for the UNICEF Programme of Accident Prevention by Mines and Explosive
Devices, and UNICEF representative in the Coordination Committee of Accident
Preventions by landmines and Explosive Devices. (Armed Forces, FMLN and ONUSAL)
UNICEF person in charge of the process of landmine-clearing of El Salvador during period
1993- 1995.
The consensus process that made possible the success of the project of mine-clearing and
the support of UNICEF has been shown in different national and international forums, as
one of the most successful experiences of the process of peace consolidation (after the
Peace Accords in 1992).
One of those events was the Regional Consultancy on Childhood and Armed Conflicts
prepared by the Special Delegate of the Secretary General of United Nations Mrs. Graca
Machell. Santa Fe de Bogotá. Colombia. 1996. Acted as special envoy of UNICEF, to
advise the members of the Committee during the event, support them in the presentation of
the experience, and also to participate directly in the work sessions.
Coordinator and person in charge of the campaign “Tell me if you are with me” (in favor of
the Salvadorean childhood) developed during the presidential electoral campaign of 1994.
Person in charge of the project “Childhood in Armed Conflict and Working Children”
Person in charge of the execution of Agreement between international Development Bank
(IDB) and UNICEF for the area of Children in Specially Difficult Circumstances. It
included the institutional strengthening of the Salvadorean Institute of Protection to the
Child (ISPM), created in 1993.
UNICEF, El Salvador 1994-1997
Position: Consultant (Programme Coordinator)
Description: Person in charge of the Programme of Childhood in Specially Difficult
Circumstances. Supervision of personnel, elaboration of reports to donors, coordination of
activities within des projects, coordination with other programmes.
My duties were to carry out all functions detailed in my previous positions. Additionally, I
was on charge of management of the following projects within the program:
• “Youth and Violence”, in which private sector, religious and governmental
organizations and institutions participated with the theme of young people in
social exclusion;
• “Municipal Councils for Child Rights of the Ombudsman for the Human rights”;
• “Working Children”.
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