Elanor Jackson
Elanor has worked in the field of international development for the past 20 years and has specialised in child rights issues for the past 11 years. In 2009, Elanor was based in Ethiopia, working as a Consultant for both international and local NGOs, strenthening programme quality, facilitating programme design and development, supporting programmes staff to manage a range of programmes, developing M&E frameworks, learning documents and a number of guidelines. She focused on issues including food security, child rights, child protection, child migration, rural livelihoods, disaster risk reduction, women's rights and HIV and AIDS. Prior to this, Elanor worked for ChildHope for 10 years, first as Programmes Manager and then as Head of the Programmes team before becoming a full-time consultant for CREATE. She has developed projects and programmes with over 20 organisations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. She has submitted successful funding applications to a range of donors including DFID, the EU, the BLF, Comic Relief, the World Bank, large trusts and foundations. She has designed and facilitated several monitoring and evaluation visits to local NGOs, has delivered training and built capacity in a number of areas including project cycle management, logframes, budget development, influencing policy and advocacy, recruitment, child participation and child protection. She has overseen the development of a number of training materials for ChildHope and been involved in piloting them. She co-wrote ChildHope’s Child Protection Toolkit with Marie and has conducted training and mentoring on child protection with a number of organisations. She has also been responsible for developing organisational strategies and organisational policies and procedures on child protection, recruitment, financial management of projects, monitoring and evaluation frameworks.