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
How braver citizens make governments more effective
Tuesday, 30 April 2019 14:52It’s something every country in the world can use right now: braver citizens and more responsive governments. That’s what CARE’s Implementation of Social Accountability Framework project in Cambodia achieved. So how did we do it, and what
What happens when you think of poor women as economic powerhouses? The world changes.
Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:19We usually think of women in CARE’s projects as beneficiaries or participants, but they are so much more powerful than that. Women who work in CARE’s programmes use their skills to build businesses, create jobs, keep fresh produce in markets,
5 Minute Inspiration: Working with communities to end child marriage
Monday, 14 January 2019 11:065 Minute Inspiration: How thinking big and acting small makes kids smarter
Thursday, 27 December 2018 10:00In Madagascar, kid’s test scores in French increased by 46% by thinking big and acting small. Learn how the community acheived this through the Fanamby
5 Minute Inspiration: How vocational training helps Syrian refugees feel safer
Tuesday, 02 October 2018 14:29Syrian refugees in Jordan are learning new skills and building networks so they feel safer. Jordan’s urban protection response programme provided vocational training to both refugees and the Jordanian host community. 84% of participants say the
5 Minute Inspiration: How do ID cards help women in Nepal out of poverty?
Wednesday, 19 September 2018 08:56A CARE Nepal project helped women find a way out of poverty using training and ID cards. One woman in the project got her first citizenship card at age 21 even though she had been married for 8 years already. She told us that, before the project
Climate change resilience: adapting farming practices and enhancing food security in Mozambique
Tuesday, 11 September 2018 09:44Families who participated in the Nampula Adaptation to Climate Change project in northern Mozambique were able to grow more food, better respond to crises, and save more money. Adopting many climate change conscious practices in their
What is an emergency skirt and why does it improve girls' reading?
Wednesday, 05 September 2018 10:34In Zimbabwe, mothers and school management worked to improve girls’ academic achievement through the Improving Girls’ Access through Transforming Education programme (IGATE). When you ask girls what they liked best about the initiative, many
5 Minute Inspiration: How responding to Ebola made communities in Sierra Leone stronger
Tuesday, 21 August 2018 09:15In Sierra Leone, 91% of people are satisfied with the CARE response to Ebola, both in the immediate aftermath and in long-term recovery. It’s what a lot of people call Nexus programming: emergency response that also builds for the long term. In
5 Minute Inspiration: How making water cheaper produces more milk and food
Wednesday, 08 August 2018 15:52In the West Bank and Gaza, CARE helped farmers raise milk production by 10% and reduced the cost of water by 80%. To achieve this it wasn’t enough to look at just a farmer’s skills or livestock techniques. We had to look at the whole market