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I landed in Jakarta Indonesia, after almost 20 hours of flight from Lagos Nigeria, it was my first trip to the city of Jakarta and a very challenging trip as I barely had sufficient time to plan for the trip itself( that’s a story for another day). I had assumed my journey ends in the capital city, but I was wrong, Indeed it was only half  of the journey. I was met on arrival by the highly efficient UNICEF protocol team who handed me the local flight tickets for two more flights to Medan and finally a dingy once in a week flight to Banda Aceh.

Hi, great to see. I led the first such Study in UNICEF Indonesia in 2010 with our great team & SMERU, the same outstanding think-tank in Jakarta.  Good it’s been repeated. Hope our Study was used & referred to and the situation is much better now.  Best, Niloufar

Maggots in the meals, glass in the rice: Indonesia’s free school meals tainted by food poisoning Michael Neilson The Guardian Click here for the article. Summary

Video shared by Niloufar Pourzand Yes these were all my colleagues in Indonesia. Niloufar

 Article shared by Ian MacLeod Eleven children in Indonesia’s East Java province have been diagnosed with polio, health officials reported this week.

Note: This article has been updated with additional information just received from Danielle Koster. "Our Chief Health (Sowmya, now in copy) will be leaving at the end of October and we have started the recruitment but anticipate we’ll have a gap until end of the year/into January. Ideally we’d like to have someone cover that period, and potentially a few weeks earlier. I’m sharing the email with our advert as the role is the same. This is a P5 level post and we’d be looking for an experienced Chief of Health who can hold the fort and lead the team for a few months while we identify and bring onboard the next chief. We’re open with respect to the modality – TA or consultancy – once we find the right person we’ll figure out what works best." "I think what would be easiest is if there are colleagues who are interested for them to share their CV, availability etc. with myself and/or Sowmya directly and we can take it from there. They can also be in touch with Sowmya to fi...