InterAction Salutes Its Forum 2011 Award Winners
InterAction Salutes its Forum 2011 Award Winners
For more information about the awards and when they’ll be distributed, visit http://www.interaction.org/forum-awards-presentations-0.
Effective Assistance Photography Award
Jenn Warren is a professional photographer based in Juba, South Sudan, specializing in humanitarian and development projects. Her work has been published in the Sunday Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, TIME, BBC News Online and Al Jazeera. Clients include Save the Children, Medecins sans Frontierés, UNHCR, UNICEF, PSI, International Committee for the Red Cross, USAID, DFID, UNESCO, CARE International, Amnesty International, the National Democratic Institute and SafePoint Trust.
Award for Excellence in International Reporting
Josh Rogin has served as Staff Writer with Foreign Policy magazine since September 2009, where he writes the daily column The Cable, a look inside the making of foreign policy in Washington, DC. He covers the State Department, the Defense Department, the National Security Council, Congress, and the diplomatic and think tank communities, writing breaking news, enterprise, and long-form articles on a wide range of national security and foreign affairs issues.
Security Advisory Group’s Distinguished Achievement Award
Fabian Chimakati Shivachi currently works as a Regional Safety and Security Manager for three AED (now FHI 360) Projects in South Sudan. He joined AED in August 2009 after moving from the Northern Sudan where he worked for the International Rescue Commission (IRC) as a Security Coordinator based in Darfur supporting five different field locations. He was with IRC during the expulsion of Aid organizations from the North after the ICC indictment of the Sudanese President; IRC was adversely affected and had to shut down its operations in the North.
Mildred Robbins Leet Award for the Advancement of Women
Melanne Verveer is Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues. As director of the Department of State’s new office on Global Women’s Issues, Ambassador Verveer coordinates foreign policy issues and activities relating to the political, economic and social advancement of women around the world. She mobilizes concrete support for women’s rights and political and economic empowerment through initiatives and programs designed to increase women’s and girls’ access to education and health care, to combat violence against women and girls in all its forms, and to ensure that women's rights are fully integrated with human rights in the development of U.S. foreign policy.
USAID Deputy Administrator Donald Steinberg previously served as Deputy President for Policy at the International Crisis Group (lCG). During three decades with the US diplomatic service, he served as Ambassador to Angola, Director of the State Department's Joint Policy Council, Special Representative of the President for Humanitarian Demining, Special Haiti Coordinator, Deputy White House Press Secretary and NSC Senior Director for Africa.
Disability Inclusion Award
International Foundation for Electoral Systems(IFES) has been selected to receive the 2011 Disability Inclusion Award for their work promoting the electoral and political rights of people with disabilities. Through their efforts, they have increased voter participation, mobilized voters and increased the capacity of disabled people’s organizations to promote the rights of people with disabilities. Replicating their success, IFES has now implemented disability inclusive programming in more than 30 countries around the world.
International Rescue Committee(IRC), on behalf of its work conducted by the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC), has been selected to receive the 2011 Disability Inclusion Award. WRC has been at the forefront of putting disability issues on the humanitarian agenda. The vision that guides their work is a world in which people with disabilities participate fully in community decision making, have safe and equal access to humanitarian assistance, and are included in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian programs.
Humanitarian Award
Dr. Thangamuthu Sathiyamoorthyis a medical professional and administrator that has gone above and beyond in his service to the internally displaced and war-affected people of Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka during times of war and great distress. He has served in various official capacities under the Ministry of Health, including Medical Officer at Akkarayankulam Hospital; Regional Director of Health Services—Kilinochchi and Mullaithivu Districts; Medical Superintendent for Kilinochchi Hospital; Provincial Director of Northern Province; Chairman of the Dengue Task Force in Vavuniya District; Director for IDP Healthcare at Manic Farm; Cheddikulam; and now Medical Superintendant for Vavuniya Hospital.
Julia Vadala Taft Outstanding Leadership Award
Dr. Geeta Rao Gupta was recently appointed Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Previously, she served as a senior fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, advising the president and leadership of the Global Development Program on strategy. Prior to joining the foundation, Dr. Rao Gupta was president of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) where she was internationally recognized for her expertise on gender and development issues.
