Rain Barrel project with UNICEF Nepal

Today, on auspicious May Day, Rain Barrel embarks on a new adventure. We have been contracted by UNICEF Nepal to design -- with children, communities and counterparts -- a comprehensive Communication for Development (C4D) strategy for their new, five-year Country Program.  It's an ambitious 10-month project that will cut across all program areas, rather than focusing on just a single sector or set of behaviors.  We see it as an empowerment project, an approach that will give children and adolescents from some of the country's most impoverished communities more of a voice in the decisions that affect their lives, along with more knowledge, skills and opportunities.

Paul and I have pulled together what we're calling The Dream Team, seasoned, senior-level experts, renowned in their field, with proven track records in C4D theory and practice, and an intimate knowledge of UNICEF and all relevant issues relating to children's rights.   The team will be led by Teresa Stuart, who will be working with consultants Ami Sengupta; Suruchi Sood and Gary Coldevin.  Kul Gautam and Rina Gil will serve as project advisors.   I will coordinate/manage the project from New York on behalf of Rain Barrel.

UNICEF has an excellent Country Program in Nepal and it will be a delight to be working once again with friends and former colleagues.