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Teresa Stuart Guida

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Teresa Stuart Guida

Dr. Teresa Stuart Guida specializes in communication strategy development for behaviour and social change, advocacy and social mobilization and its research, capacity development, management, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, documentation and reporting of results. Her development focus include: MDGs, child and maternal health, family nutrition, agriculture and natural resources, environment, livelihoods, gender and governance.

Extensive experience in curriculum design, management, facilitation and evaluation of learning workshops/training on Communication for Development (C4D) with country groups. The workshops cover development themes that address policy, behaviour, and social change results for national development priorities and the Millennium Development Goals. Themes underpin human rights, equity and gender mainstreaming.

Expertise in the design of country specific and research-driven C4D strategies for development and humanitarian settings, including preparation of programme guidelines, action plans and protocols for community-based implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation and reporting. Experience in technical backstopping and effective collaborative work with multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary teams in the UN, international NGOs, academe, national and sub-national authorities and local stakeholders, the private sector, civil society organizations and the media. Initiated numerous community managed communications systems, community radio and audio towers in hard to reach communities.

Skills in facilitation and team building for international, regional and national meetings and organizational retreats. Experience in proposal development and staff recruitment.

More than 35 years of professional experience in Communication for Development education and training, administration, programme management, research, monitoring and evaluation, over 15 years of which were in international development. Worked with UNICEF for 16 years in various capacities in Communication for Development in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa and North America until retirement. Academic career in teaching and research at doctoral, masters and undergraduate level spans 21 years. Consulting services provided for UNICEF, FAO, UNDP, UNFPA, USAID, International Rice Research Institute and Philippines Department of Science and Technology, Department of Agriculture and National Food and Nutrition Institute since 1988. Held positions of Director of Extension and Associate Professor of Development Communication at the University of the Philippines Los Banos and Director of the Applied Communication Division at the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD), Department of Science and Technology.

Dr. Stuart Guida earned a PhD in Development Communication from the University of the Philippines Los Banos.

Independent Consultant for C4D; Specialist, C4D for Social Change (retired), UNICEF New York;
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