Davide is an Education in Emergencies Specialist with more than 10 years of experience in both the Middle East and Africa. Davide worked as Technical Advisor, Programme Manager and Education Cluster Coordinator in Iraq, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Nepal, Turkey, Tanzania, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. 

Zeudi and Davide collaborated in designing cross sectoral capacity building initiatives, awareness raising events on the importance of MHPSS in emergency settings, and management of safe and learning spaces for adolescent and children. Davide loves hiking, developing memes and writing.

Monia D’Amico is project manager for the Italian National Fire and Rescue Service (CNVVF).

She has more than 20 year-experience in project and programme management, for private and public bodies, with academia as well as militaries in the field of development, emergency preparedness and capacity building. She is specialised in civil protection scope, training and general management (needs assessment, reporting, designing of activities such as table-top, small and full exercises, international conferences etc).

She has field mission experience in some MENA countries (Jordan, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco…) and Ghana. She was the office coordinator of the “International Training Programme for Conflict Management” of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa, Italy, in the field of peace-keeping, peace-building and democratisation process.

She studied some languages (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Slovak and Arabic) and used to volunteer in the field of cooperation to development (child education and assistance in Nepal, disabled children in Egypt, social responsibility in Morocco etc.). She cooperated with Zeudi to revise a project proposal led by “El Comedor Estudiantil” on children education in Nepal (including needs assessment, budget preparation, partners’ identification). Monia plays drums and likes very much travelling, trekking, cooking and sewing. She practises yoga.

Caitlin is an academic specialising in youth, conflict and irregular migration. An anthropologist by training, she is a part-time Professor at the Migration Policy Centre at the EUI, and a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peace-building at IHEID. She has conducted research with children, youth and their families in Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and is currently working on North East Syria.  Alongside her academic work Caitlin consults primarily for UNRWA, UNHCR and UNICEF. She collaborates with Zeudi on qualitative research on child reintegration and post-conflict recovery. Caitlin loves singing, hiking and visiting friends scattered around the world

Giovanna is a Child Protection Specialist with nearly 20 years of progressive experience working as child rights and child protection technical advisor and programme manager in humanitarian responses and in fragile countries across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. An experienced humanitarian practitioner, her approach is firmly grounded in the promotion and implementation of rights-based approaches to humanitarian and development work, with a focus on child protection. Giovanna’s technical expertise encompasses all areas of child protection in humanitarian action, with a particular focus on the protection of children affected by conflict, including girls and boys who live in active conflict, who are refugees, internally displaced, and migrants due to conflict.

Giovanna and Zeudi have worked together in implementing child protection programmes in humanitarian responses, iand n designing and delivering child protection training.

Passionate about yoga, Giovanna loves travelling, reading, running, and spending a lot of time with her children. She holds double-nationality (Italian and British) and is fluent in Italian, English, French and Spanish.

Chiara is a Child Protection Specialist with more than 15 years of experience in development and humanitarian settings. She worked as programme manager and technical advisor in several countries across Eastern Europe, Africa and Middle East, mostly focusing on programmes that responded to the protection needs of children affected by conflict, displacement and migration. She collaborated with the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action in advancing the commitments to prevention of harm to children and child protection minimum standards. Zeudi and Chiara collaborated in designing, implementing and monitoring child protection programmes, including strengthening MHPSS and case management services as well as community-based protection. Chiara loves the sea, reading novels and long walks.