What IS YOUR NAME and your last assignment with UNICEF?
Niloufar Pourzand, Chief of Field Office, UNICEF Uttar Pradesh, India
How old do you feel?
46 going on 66
Where do you live?
Toronto, Ontario, Canada displaced from Tehran, Iran
What book do you currently read?
Lyce Doucet's book about a hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan
If you could travel without restrictions, where would you go?
Iran, Afghanistan
Your best experience with UNICEF?
Each of them in their own way
Your biggest challenge when working for UNICEF?
Difficult Representatives
What is your biggest fear, in relation to the future of children? What is your greatest hope, in relation to children?
Fear: Conflict, climate change, inequality, dictatorship
Hope: Social movements, revolutions, struggles for freedom
What is one piece of advice you would wish to give to the UNICEF Executive Director?
Please be courageous and principled when it comes to speaking truth to power.
Do you have any suggestions to improve XUNICEF - content, format, ideas, etc..?
Keep up the great work!
Niloufar can be contacted at: nilypourzand@gmail.com
46 going on 66
Where do you live?
Toronto, Ontario, Canada displaced from Tehran, Iran
What book do you currently read?
Lyce Doucet's book about a hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan
If you could travel without restrictions, where would you go?
Iran, Afghanistan
Your best experience with UNICEF?
Each of them in their own way
Your biggest challenge when working for UNICEF?
Difficult Representatives
What is your biggest fear, in relation to the future of children? What is your greatest hope, in relation to children?
Fear: Conflict, climate change, inequality, dictatorship
Hope: Social movements, revolutions, struggles for freedom
What is one piece of advice you would wish to give to the UNICEF Executive Director?
Please be courageous and principled when it comes to speaking truth to power.
Do you have any suggestions to improve XUNICEF - content, format, ideas, etc..?
Keep up the great work!
Niloufar can be contacted at: nilypourzand@gmail.com
Very interesting that your biggest challenge was 'Difficult Representatives'. I would endorse that because in the six countries where I worked as a Programme Officer, I served under no fewer than 16 Representatives. In one of those countries, there were 9 Reps or Acting Reps. . . . . .so some of them had to be difficult cases. I hope that you had some experience of 'Non-difficult' Representatives ?
ReplyDeleteAlso interesting that while you had to relocate from Iran, you would like to travel without restrictions in Iran and Afghanistan. I wish, knowing that for the both of us, this is likely to remain an unfulfilled item on our bucket list. For me, I would dearly love to know what happened to a Game Ranger I met in the Lar Valley, who told me something about the behaviour of the local otters (sag-e-rud). Within a year of meeting him, the Revolution took place. Need I say more?