Wivina Belmonte

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Wivina Belmonte is a UNICEF staff member. She is a national of both Spain and Canada, and since 2016 she has been the organisation's Deputy Regional Director for East Asia Pacific. [1] [2]

UNICEF development policy organization of the UN

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), originally known as the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, was created by the United Nations General Assembly on 11 December 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children and mothers in countries that had been devastated by World War II. The Polish physician Ludwik Rajchman is widely regarded as the founder of UNICEF and served as its first chairman from 1946 to 1950, when he had to flee the United States in the wake of McCarthyism. Rajchman is to this day the only person that served as UNICEF's Chairman for longer than 2 years. On Rajchman's suggestion, the American Maurice Pate was appointed its first executive director, serving from 1947 until his death in 1965. In 1950, UNICEF's mandate was extended to address the long-term needs of children and women in developing countries everywhere. In 1953 it became a permanent part of the United Nations System, and the words "international" and "emergency" were dropped from the organization's name, though it retained the original acronym, "UNICEF".

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Education and early career

In 1982 Belmonte completed an undergraduate degree at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, having majored in international relations and journalism. She subsequently worked in the London office of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and in 1992 became the youngest person to hold the position of senior producer at the broadcaster. [2]

Carleton University university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Carleton University is a public comprehensive university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, a private, non-denominational evening college to serve veterans returning from World War II, the institution was chartered as a university by the provincial government in 1952 through the The Carleton University Act. The legislation was subsequently amended in 1957 to give the institution its current name. The university moved to its current campus in 1959, and would expand rapidly throughout the 1960s amid broader efforts by the provincial government to increase support to post-secondary institutions and expand access to higher education.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television. The English- and French-language service units of the corporation are commonly known as CBC and Radio-Canada.

Development and aid career

In 1999 Belmonte joined the International Red Cross and Red Crescent as project manager for a global campaign raising HIV/AIDS awareness within the Red Cross movement. The project was commended by UNAIDS as an example of best organisational practice. [1]

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In 2001 Belmonte joined UNICEF as the organisation's spokesperson at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, and later as UNICEF's Chief of Communications there. In 2005 she served as campaign manager in a worldwide campaign on children and AIDS, co-launched by UNICEF and UNAIDS. She later joined UNICEF's regional office in Latin America and the Caribbean, where she helped design public advocacy efforts for child focused development initiatives in 24 countries. [1]

Belmonte was then appointed to the position of Deputy Director of Communications at UNICEF's headquarters in New York, a position she held until July 2012 when she took up the leadership of UNICEF's country program in Malaysia. [1] In this role, she worked with the country's corporate sector and focused on digital citizenship, child online protection and how innovation can deliver improved results for children. [3] Since 2016 Belmonte has been the organisation's Deputy Regional Director for East Asia Pacific. [1] [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "UNICEF Malaysia - Who we are - Who we are". www.unicef.org. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  2. 1 2 3 "The Road To Impacting The Lives Of Children » Leaderonomics.com". Leaderonomics.com. 2016-08-19. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
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