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PROJECTS
Keetie’s work as project
consultant within the Graduate
School of Governance includes
several projects in the field of
social (protection) policy and
poverty issues.
Currently, Keetie is working on
a study with UNICEF Kosovo with
the purpose of assessing
the impact of Kosovo's social
assistance cash transfer
programme on children.
The study builds on quantitative
as well as qualitative data and
is envisaged to be finalized in
the summer of 2009.
From October 2006 to November
2008,
Keetie worked on the Child
Poverty project for UNICEF Vietnam. Unicef Vietnam
supports the Government of
Vietnam in their efforts to
monitor the progress towards
their Hunger Eradication and
Poverty Reduction (HEPR)
programme, in specific for
children. Both Unicef as well as
the Government of Vietnam
recognize the need for a child
specific poverty approach to
measure child poverty in Vietnam
and assess the progress towards
the HEPR programme. You can find
more information about HEPR on
the website of UNICEF Vietnam.
From October to December 2007,
Keetie was part of a project
team consisting of senior
researchers from MGSoG as well
as a national consultant to
develop a child well-being
index for UNICEF Moldova.
The index can serve as a tool to
compare regions or sub-regions
on their multidimensional
performance with respect to
child well-being. More
information on UNICEF's work in
Moldova can be found at the
the website of UNICEF Moldova.
Keetie is also part of the content development and implementation
team of the UNICEF Learning
Programme on Public Policy,
Advocacy and Partnerships for
Children’s Rights
in 2006. The training
programme consisted of distance
and face-to-face learning and
was directed towards the senior
staff of Unicef to increase
knowledge and skills in topics
including poverty, economic
policy, social protection and
social budgeting, among others.
Keetie was responsible for
content development for the
e-learning part of the programme
as well as face-to-face
trainings and acted as a tutor
in both instances. More
information and a short
description can be found
here.
The World Bank project “Social Policy Reviews”
in 2006 encompassed
technical and organizational
assistance to Prof. Chris de
Neubourg of MGSoG and three
research teams in Hungary,
Poland and Estonia for a social
policy review of the newly
acceded EU Member countries.
With respect to World Bank
project “Study Tour Social
Assistance Europe”, Keetie
managed and implemented a
two-week study tour to four
European countries (Netherlands,
Belgium, UK and Denmark) for
World Bank senior staff to give
them an insight into European
social assistance schemes and
their embeddedness into the
overall social protection
structures. More information and
a short description about these
projects can be found on the
website of MGSoG.
The short term
project “Strengthening Institutional Capacity at the
Social Insurance Institute
Albania” in 2005 was a Nuffic sponsored
and aimed at capacity
development and strengthening in
the implementing agency of
social insurances in Albania.
Keetie was involved in the
organization of study trips to
similar institutes in the
Netherlands and Belgium and
co-developed and implemented a
5-day training on policy issues
in social policy design. More
information about Nuffic and
their programmes can be found on
their
website.
In spring 2004, Keetie pursued a
desk study for Gassmann
Consulting on poverty and social
policy monitoring in the
Netherlands. From sources
including the Ministry of Social
Affairs, Central Bureau of
Statistics and Central Planning
Bureau an overview was compiled
about monitoring efforts that
was included in the overall
report "Development of
Methodology for Monitoring of
Poverty and Social Exclusion in
Latvia".
Keetie worked on several
projects during her internship
at the Poverty Unit of UNDP,
Namibia. Her main task consisted
of providing technical
assistance to the Government of
Namibia in the execution of a
pilot participatory poverty
assessment. Ohangwena was
the first region in fall 2003 to
take part in the assessment that
resulted in a Regional Poverty
Profile. The project serves to
create a better picture of the
situation of the poor in the
various regions and serves to
inform policy-makers. Keetie
conducted field work as part of
the poverty assessment team,
participated in the synthesis of
the wide range of information
collected and the write-up of
the poverty profile. For more
information, check the website
of
UNDP Namibia.
Other projects that she worked
on in Namibia included the
country progress report on the
Millennium Development Goals.
Every country published a report
to assess and analyze the
progress towards the various
Goals for the specific country.
What goal has already been
reached after the Millennium
Declaration and what should
receive more attention towards
reaching the goals in 2015? A
stringent problem in Namibia
that deserves special attention
to be able to reach ALL goals is
the worsening HIV/AIDS
prevalence rate. You can read
more about the progress in
Namibia on the special
MDG page of UNDP Namibia or
read the
report.
Keetie was also involved in the
preparation of the Poverty
Monitoring Strategy and
participated in the first
stakeholder's workshop. The
document sets out Namibia's
strategy with respect to
monitoring the poverty
situation, the date available
and needed, which indicators to
use, etcetera. For more
information, you can have a look
at the
Poverty Monitoring Strategy
document.
keetie.roelen@governance.unimaas.nl
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