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Elena Lucchi has extensive experience in operational management as well as policy and advocacy positions within humanitarian sector. Elena initially worked at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as a protection and detention delegate and then as project coordinator in Colombia, Rwanda and South Sudan. She later joined Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as a humanitarian affairs advisor in charge of designing and implementing policies and advocacy strategies on diverse humanitarian and protection issues in several countries including Colombia, Haiti, Myanmar; Caucasus, Bangladesh, Somalia and Darfur. She later took the position of operational advisor on urban settings, reviewing lessons learned from a number of urban interventions. Elena also conducted research and policy analysis on children and violence; forced migration; and minimum protection standards.
As a free-lance consultant, she has conducted numerous reviews and project/programme evaluations (including multi-country) for different organisations and networks of organisations. Clients have included WaterAid, ICRC and Colombian Red Cross, UNHCR, MSF, the Norwegian Refugee Council, Amnesty International, ALNAP, Terres des Hommes, PHAP, and many others. Elena is fluent in French and Spanish and she is experienced with interviewing techniques, design of data-collection tools, and qualitative and quantitative research methods. She recently has conducted the evaluation of the MEHMA - Mas Espacios Humanitarios Mas Alternativas - an ICRC pilot project addressing the consequences of situations of violence below the threshold of armed conflict in the city of Medellin. She is currently reviewing some operational aspects of MSF's interventions in cities in El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico and Colombia.
Elena has researched and published extensively on humanitarian responses related to Other Situations of Violence and Urban Violence, including two academic papers on the Journal of Disasters and the widely-disseminated ALNAP lessons paper: "Humanitarian interventions in situations of urban violence" (2013).
Elena will present on "Humanitarian spaces in the city"