Case studies
Selected work, 2014 to 2026.
Six engagements covering social protection system reform, shock-responsive social protection, humanitarian cash assistance and public finance for children. Across UNICEF country offices, UN country teams, national authorities and ECHO-funded regional initiatives.
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Kosovo
A rapid desk-based diagnostic of Kosovo's social protection system for the UN country team, identifying composition lock-in (pensions absorb more than 80% of the envelope, the only poverty-targeted programme reaches roughly a third of the poorest quintile) and a narrow reform window opened by the February 2026 ministerial reunification.
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Serbia
Multi-year work across Serbia's public finance and social protection ecosystem: a parliamentary training manual on public finance for children with the Ministry of Finance, a municipal assessment linking climate financing with child-focused investment, an analytical brief on the 2025 price-cap package and its implications for child poverty, and humanitarian cash work with the Red Cross of Serbia.
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Türkiye
A readiness assessment of Türkiye's national social protection system for delivering humanitarian cash during shocks, drawing on the Syrian refugee response, the COVID-19 cash expansion and the 2023 earthquakes, with a sequenced four-pillar agenda.
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Caribbean
Four years working across seven Caribbean Small Island Developing States in two streams: M&E frameworks, operational manuals and grievance redress for national social protection programmes, and independent assessment of UN and ECHO-funded regional initiatives on shock-responsive social protection.
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Ukraine
Three-month emergency deployment in the early phase of the war to design and roll out humanitarian cash reaching roughly 50,000 households, channelled through Ukraine's national systems rather than a parallel humanitarian channel.
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North Macedonia
Seven years leading UNICEF's social policy and social protection portfolio, anchoring the 2019 Laws on Social Protection and Child Protection, a redesigned income-tested child allowance, and a new ICF-based disability assessment model for children.
