Emily Janoch
Profile:
Emily Janoch is Senior Technical Advisor on Knowledge Management for the CARE USA Food and Nutrition Security team focusing on ways to better learn from and share practical experience on eradicating poverty through empowering women and girls. She focuses on learning from programming and using that learning to improve impact.
With four years of on-the-ground experience in West Africa, 10 years of development experience, and academic publications on community engagement and the human element in food security in Africa, Emily is especially interested in community-led development. She has experience in food security, nutrition, health, governance, and gender programming, and has a BA in International Studies from the University of Chicago, and a Masters' in Public Policy in International and Global Affairs from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Email: ejanoch@care.org
Blog posts
Pay, protect and respect women health workers on the frontlines of vaccine distribution
Thursday, 25 March 2021 08:00As the international debate rages around vaccine nationalism, the world is ignoring one of the most important investments we need to make to ensure fast and fair global vaccine distribution: fair pay and decent working conditions for those who
5 minute inspiration: How mobile cash transfers helped Malians when COVID-19 hit
Friday, 29 January 2021 11:53When the coronavirus pandemic hit Mali, most families CARE works with that had been eating three meals a day suddenly had to drop to eating only once a day. The combination of markets closing, quarantine measures, and falling incomes meant that
5 minute inspiration: Working with young men to counter extremism
Wednesday, 20 January 2021 14:30As the USA inaugurates a new president in an atmosphere of heightened security in the wake of shocking violence at the Capitol earlier this month, the partners CARE works with in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, and Serbia are
5 minute inspiration: How to improve food security in Syria
Tuesday, 12 January 2021 14:38“I felt like life will go on, and we are able to find new ways to live a better life.” Nidal is one of more than 150,000 people who worked with CARE’s Food For Peace project to improve food security in Syria. From growing more food, to
5 minute inspiration: How peace returns in Somalia
Tuesday, 15 December 2020 12:59“Initially, we opposed and resisted the [displaced people] from being settled in our community land. [These] are people who came in with nothing and wanted to use and enjoy our local resources at the expense of our community. But with time,
5 minute inspiration: How 64 countries are tackling GBV
Friday, 27 November 2020 17:43CARE and others have written about the increase of gender-based violence (GBV) in COVID-19, and how that has incredibly damaging impacts around the world. One of the successes of the COVID-19 response globally has been the attention global actors
5 minute inspiration: What are we learning from COVID-19?
Tuesday, 17 November 2020 12:08We asked CARE’s teams responding to COVID-19: what would you change if you could do it all over again? The answers showed that, as ever, CARE staff show remarkable learning, adaptability, and ambition to change the world – even in the face of
5 minute inspiration: Finding ways through divisive conflict
Friday, 13 November 2020 10:52For the first time in history, the United States has elected a woman of colour as Vice-President. It’s a historic moment for celebration. But the election also showed that America is a country deeply divided, with a lot of work ahead of us to
5 minute inspiration: She Told Us So ... about COVID-19
Tuesday, 22 September 2020 12:00Six months of transforming our COVID response
Thursday, 10 September 2020 14:49September 11th marks six months since the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a pandemic. It’s hard to believe both how long this has continued and that we have only been operating in pandemic mode for six months. Some days it’s hard
