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Follow- up and supervision of the following research:
• Working Children and Education in El Salvador, 1998;
• New Juvenile Penal Justice, the Experience of El Salvador, 1999;
• The Phenomenon of Gangs in El Salvador, 1998.
Drawing up of draft projects to be presented to the international donor community and
approval of the Project of “Support to the Rights of the Child”, supported by the Agency of
Swedish Cooperation for Development - ASDI)
Support to the institutional strengthening of the Salvadorean Institute of Protection of
Children – ISPM
The Program “Youth and Violence”, laid the foundations for further development of a
strategy dealing with the subject of the youthful gangs in El Salvador. Also the mentioned
programme helped the design of the programme “Towards a System of Juvenile Justice”
UNICEF, El Salvador 1998-2000.
Position: Child Rights Officer
Description: To represent the Organization in public events; to communicate with the press
upon instructions given by the UNICEF Representative office; to deliver information to
donors; administrative, technical and financial handling of the programme, permanent
working groups, training and knowledge transmission abilities, supervision of personnel,
personal initiative and accountability, technical support to other country offices in the area.
Coordinated the following:
• Programme “Towards a System of Juvenile Justice��� (interinstitutional and
multidisciplinary program), in which the justice sector, as well as civil society
organizations at national and municipal level participated;
• Project of the “Municipal Councils for Child Rights of the Ombudsman for the
Human Rights.”;
• Project “Widening Frontiers in the Search of Children (boys and girls) who
disappeared During the Armed Conflict”.
The Child Rights officer functions included the preparations of draft internal UNICEF
documents, annual reports, semester evaluations as well as the delivery and to distribution
of public statements, conferences and presentations on subjects relating to the childhood,
their rights and development.
To coordinate and follow-up the project of United Nations Volunteers for the
implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Volunteer’s supervision located in key areas of the Child Rights Programme:
• To train personnel of the different institutional and organizations acting as project
counterparts and domestic nongovernmental organizations on the subject of the
rights of the child and the Convention on the Rights of the Child;
• To attend international events, to render information and follow-up the
implantation of reached agreements;
• To coordinate the work of UNICEF with technical cooperation agencies,
programmes, funds, and international financial organizations;
• To analyze UNICEF and UN System documents written in English and French.
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