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Ethiopia

Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI)

Daniel Alemayehu, Data Manager
Daniel Alemayehu is the Data Manager for Young Lives in Ethiopia, based at the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI). He has an MSc in Statistics from Addis Ababa University. He has worked as a data consultant on projects for Save the Children Denmark, the Institute of Development Research, and the Ethiopian Mine Action Office, and is a member of the Ethiopian Statistician Association.

Tekie Alemu, former Principal Investigator
Tekie Alemu is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Addis Ababa University. He holds an MA in Economics from the University of Delhi and a PhD in Economics from Göteborg University, Sweden. He is a founding member of the Ethiopian Economics Association, and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Ethiopian Journal of Economics from 2000 to 2001. He previously also served as Coordinator of the Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia. He was Principal Investigator for Young Lives in Ethiopia from 2001 to 2004.

Selected Publications
Tassew Woldehanna and Tekie Alemu (2002) Poverty Profile of Ethiopia, 1995-2000, Addis Ababa: Ministry of Finance and Economic Development
Tekie Alemu and Kassahun Berhanu (2001) Corruption Survey in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa: Institute Educational Research, Addis Ababa University
Tekie Alemu (2002) ‘Farmers’ Unwillingness to Pay for Tenure Security’, in Alemu Mekonnen and Dejene Aredo (eds) Institutions, Resources and Development in Ethiopia (Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference on the Ethiopian Economy), Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Economic Association and Addis Ababa University
Tekie Alemu (1999) Insecure Land Tenure Regimes and Soil Conservation, Studies in Environmental Economics and Development Working Paper Series No. 1, Göteborg: Göteborg Univesity
Tekie Alemu (1999) Land Tenure and Soil Conservation: Evidence from Ethiopia, Göteborg: Department of Economics, Göteborg University

Mahderekal Fesseha, Data Management Assistant
Mahderekal Fesseha is the Data Management Assistant for Young Lives in Ethiopia, based at the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI). He has a BSc in Management Information Systems from Unity University College, Ethiopia. He has worked in computer maintenance and networking at Addis Ababa University, and has a diploma in computer literacy.

Asmelash Haile, Dissemination Officer and Administrative Assistant
Asmelash Haile is the Dissemination Officer and Administrative Assistant for Young Lives in Ethiopia, based at the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI). He has a BA in Accounting and an MA in Regional and Local Development Studies from Addis Ababa University. He previously worked as a researcher at Addis Ababa University on the textile and garment industry in Ethiopa, and has lectured on development economics and accounting at Unity University College, Ethiopia.

Alemu Mekonnen, Quantitative Researcher
Alemu Mekonnen is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Addis Ababa University. He has an MA in Economics from American University in Cairo, and a PhD in Economics from Göteborg University, Sweden. Since 2004, he has worked as a Research Fellow at the Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia, and has lectured in Environmental Economics in Kenya and South Africa through the African Economics Research Consortium and the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa. He previously also served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Ethiopian Economic Association. He has worked as quantitative researcher for Young Lives in Ethiopia since 2001.

Selected Publications
F. Carlsson, G. Kohlin, A. Mekonnen and M. Yesuf (2005) Are Agricultural Extension Packages What Ethiopian Farmers Want? A Stated Preference Analysis, Working Papers in Economics No. 172, Gothenburg: Department of Economics, Gothenburg University
A. Mekonnen and T. Woldehanna (2004) Deforestation: A Review of Issues with a Focus on Ethiopia, Addis Ababa: Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia, Ethiopian Development Research Institute
F. Carlsson, G. Kohlin and A. Mekonnen (2004) Contingent Valuation of Community Forestry in Ethiopia: A Look into Value Elicitation Formats and Intra-household Preference Variations, Working Papers in Economics No. 151, Gothenburg: Department of Economics, Gothenburg University
A. Mekonnen (2000) ‘Valuation of Community Forestry in Ethiopia: A Contingent Valuation Study of Rural Households’, Environment and Development Economics 5: 289-308
A. Mekonnen (1999) ‘Rural Household Biomass Fuel Production and Consumption in Ethiopia: A Case Study’, Journal of Forest Economics 5(1): 69-97

Tassew Woldehanna, Principal Investigator
Tassew Woldehanna is an Assistant Professor in Economics at Addis Ababa University. He holds an MSc in Agricultural and Environmental Economics and Policy and a PhD in Economics from Wageningen University, Netherlands, where he has lectured as a visiting Assistant Professor in Household and Agricultural Economics since 2000. He has previously worked as a researcher at the Ethiopian Development Research Institute, at the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University, and at the Department of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University, USA. He has also worked as an agronomist at the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture. He is currently Principal Investigator for Young Lives in Ethiopia.

Selected Publications
Tassew Woldehanna and Arie Oskam (2007) ‘Male and Female Labour Allocation Decision of Farm Households between Farm and Non-Farm Activities: A Case In The Tigray Region of Northern Ethiopia’, Ethiopian Journal of Agricultural Economics 6(2)
Stefan Dercon, John Hoddinott and Tassew Woldehanna (2005) ‘Shocks and Consumption in 15 Ethiopian Villages, 1999-2004’, Journal of African Economies 14(4): 559-85
T. Woldehanna and D. Zerfu (2004) ‘The Role of the Parliament in Pro-Poor Budgeting in Ethiopia’ in T. Woldehanna and W. Eberlei (eds) Pro-poor Budgeting and the Role Parliamentarians in the Implementation of PRSP in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa: GTZ and Addis Ababa University
T. Woldehanna and A. Oskam (2004) ’Off-farm Employment and Income inequality: the Implication for Poverty Reduction Strategy’, Ethiopian Economic Journal 9(1): 40-57
J. Knight, S. Weir and T. Woldehanna (2003) ‘The Role of Education in Facilitating Risk-Taking and Innovation in Agriculture’, Journal of Development Studies 39(6): 1-22

Save the Children UK (Ethiopia)

Hiwot Kifle Gebresilassie, Policy Assistant
Hiwot Kifle has a BSc in Management Information System (MIS) and a degree in Secretarial Science and Office Management. Hiwot worked as a project assistant for Save the Children UK in the eastern part of Ethiopia and at the SCUK Regional Office for two years. Stationed in the SC-UK Addis Ababa office, she was a project assistant for Health and Disability until she joined Young Lives in 2004. Her current role includes administrative support, information and communication and qualitative data management using the N-vivo software.

Biruk Gezahegn, Assistant Policy Advisor
Biruk Gezahegne has an MSc in Economic Policy Analysis from Addis Ababa University. He was an independent consultant for various institutions including the World Bank, CRDA and The Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. He has also served as a monitoring and evaluation officer for Forum on Street Children-Ethiopia before he joined Young Lives in February 2007.

Bekele Tefera, Policy Coordinator
Bekele Tefera holds a master’s degree in International Health from Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, and a diploma in Basic Nursing from the Ethio-American School of Nursing, in Asmara. He worked as a clinical nurse in Ethiopia for more than twenty years, and as an elementary and high school teacher for ten years in Somalia. He was later appointed as Health Project Manager, and subsequently as Regional Manager for Save the Children UK in Ethiopia.

Qualitative Research Team (Ethiopia)

Yisak Tafere, Lead Qualitative Researcher
Yisak Tafere has an MA in Social Anthropology and a BA in Philosophy from Addis Ababa University. His research has mainly focused on demobilisation and reintegration, youth development, children and childhood poverty, intergenerational transfer of poverty, and the socio-cultural construction of child wellbeing. Before joining Young Lives, Yisak was a Research Officer and Research Manager in Ethiopia for the ESRC research group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries (WeD), University of Bath. He also previously served as a Department Head for Youth in the Ethiopian Ministry of Youth and Sports.

Selected publications
Yisak Tafere (2007) Intergenerational Transfer of poverty/wealth: Evidence from four communities in Ethiopia. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ethiopian Economy, Addis Ababa
Yisak Tafere (2006) Destitution and social exclusions of demobilised soldiers in Ethiopia: evidence from Kolfe community in Addis Ababa. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Ethiopian Economy, Addis Ababa
Yisak Tafere (2006) ‘Youth Migration and Unemployment in Ethiopia’, in Migration and Rural Urban Linkages in Ethiopia, Research Briefing Paper, Addis Ababa: (www.wed-ethiopia.org)
Yisak Tafere (2005) Socio-Economic Reintegration of Ex-Soldiers: A case of two cooperatives in Addis Ababa’, in Civil Society in Ethiopia, Frankfurt: IKO

Workneh Abebe Yadete, Assistant Qualitative Researcher
Workneh Yadete has an MA in History from the University of Addis Ababa, AQR. He joined Young Lives in March 2007. Previously he worked as a programme manager for an international NGO working with orphans and vulnerable children throughout Ethiopia and as freelance researcher for the Wellbeing in Developing Countries Group (WeD).

India

Centre for Economic and Social Sciences (CESS)

Professor S.K. Galab, Principal Investigator
S.K. Galab, a Development Economist, is a Professor at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS). He has an MA and PhD in Economics and an MSc in Statistics from Andhra University. His past research has included issues such as natural resource management and agrarian distress, while his recent work focuses on social capital, women’s empowerment, child labour and livelihoods. He has served as a member of the Andhra Pradesh Farmers Welfare Commission, the Indian Government’s expert group on agricultural indebtedness, and the poverty sub-group formed by the Indian Government’s Planning Commission. He is the Principal Investigator for Young Lives in India.

Selected publications
S.D. Mukherjee, S. Galab and Bharati Sunder (2004) From Policy to Practice: A Study on Joint Forest Managemnt in Andhra Pradesh (Telangana Region), SDC - IC NGO Programme, Indo Swiss Natural Resource Management Programme, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, India
V. Ratna Reddy, M. Gopinath Reddy, S. Galab, J. Soussan and O. Springate-Baginski (2004) ‘Participatory Watershed Development in India: Can It Sustain Rural Livelihoods?’, Development and Change 35(2): 297-326
S. Galab and N. Chandrasekhara Rao (2003) ‘Women’s Self-Help Groups’, Economic and Political Weekly 38(13): 1274-83
S. Sudhakar Reddy, S. Galab and P. Padmanabha Rao (2003) ‘Trends and Determinants of Poverty’, Economic and Political Weekly 38(13): 1262-73
S. Galab (1999) ‘Some Micro-Level Arrangements of Social Security in Andhra Pradesh’, Indian Journal of Labour Economics 42(3)

Srirama Raju, Senior Researcher, Data Management Advisor
Srirama Raju has a PhD in development statistics. His research interests focus on database management. Currently, he is an associate fellow and senior researcher at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad.

P. Prudhvikar Reddy, Senior Researcher, Field Coordinator
P. Prudhvikar Reddy holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics and an MA in Economics. He worked for more than two decades at the Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University where he conducted research on the estimation of cost of cultivation of various crops, returns from agriculture, input use efficiency, poverty, and employment in agriculture. He also has experience in field survey methods especially in rural areas both in quantitative and qualitative spheres of research. Before joining the university, he was associated with various NGOs in the areas of sanitation, health and rural development.

Selected Publications
V. Ratna Reddy and P. Prudhvikar Reddy (2005) ‘How Participatory is Participatory Irrigation Management? Water Users’ Associations in Andhra Pradesh’, Economics and Political Weekly 40(53): 5587-95
V. Ratna Reddy, P. Prudhvikar Reddy and D. Sree Rama Raju (2005) ‘Underutilisation of Land in the Context of Technological and Policy Changes: An Analysis of Andhra Pradesh’, ICFAI Journal of Agricultural Economics 2: 7-19
V.Ratna Reddy and P. Prudhvikar Reddy (2002) ‘Water Institutions: Is Formalisation the Answer?’, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics 57(3): 519-34
P. Prudhvikar Reddy (1997) ‘An Analysis of Inter-Regional and Temporal Variations of Costs. Productivity and Sources of Growth of Paddy in Andhra Pradesh’, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics 52(3): 406-17

Save the Children - Bal Raksha, Bharat

Ajay K. Sinha, Policy Coordinator
Ajay Sinha joined Young Lives in 2007 and has extensive experience in child rights programming, child budget monitoring and policy influencing at the national level. His particular strengths and interests are in budget monitoring and working with networks and alliances to influence the policy on the basis of research-based evidence in the best interest of the child. He leads the planning and implementation of the Young Lives policy engagement strategy for Andhra Pradesh and India. He maintains awareness of the policy environment, builds networks, and maintains close relationships with key policy stakeholders, at state, national and international level in Andhra Pradesh and India.

Selected publications
A. K. Sinha (2007) 'What does the Budget have to do with children?'. Infochange Agenda, on Budgeting and Political Economy of Child Rights.
A. K. Sinha (2006) 'Financing Unfreedom', Combat Law, 5(1).
A. K. Sinha (2005) 'Says a Child… Who Speaks for My Rights', Parliament in Budget Session, HAQ: Centre for Child Rights, New Delhi.
A. K. Sinha (2004) 'Says a Child… Who Speaks for My Rights', Parliament in Winter Session, HAQ: Centre for Child Rights, New Delhi.
A. K. Sinha 'Destination Jharkhand', Ranchi, [article on SEZ and food security in India in Hindi].

Srilatha Morampudi, Policy Officer
Srilatha Morampudi joined Young Lives in December 2007 and has an MA in Political Science from the Central University of Hyderabad. Her previous roles include work as a Programme Manager for the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Andhra Pradesh, with Action for Food Production, and with the Andhra Pradesh Women’s Network. She has also worked as Programme Coordinator with ActionAid India’s street children project where she led a team which worked directly with children, their communities, other NGOs and government departments.

Sri Padmavathi Mahila Visvavidyalayam (SPMVV)

K. Anuradha, Assistant Qualitative Researcher
Anuradha Komanduri holds a PhD in Child Mental Health from Sri Padmavathi Mahila Visvavidyalayam (Tirupati Women’s University). She is a qualitative researcher for Young Lives Ethiopia.

P.V. Rajalakshmi, Assistant Qualitative Researcher
P.V. Rajalakshmi holds a PhD from Sri Padmavathi Mahila Visvavidyalayam. She is a senior researcher at Sri Padmavathi Mahila Visvavidyalayam (Tirupati Women’s University), Tirupati.

Professor Uma Vennam, Lead Qualitative Researcher
Professor Uma Vennam has a MA in social work specialising in Urban and Rural Community Development from Tata Institute of Social Sciences Bombay, and holds a PhD from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England. She is currently a professor of social work at SPMVV. She has been involved in various projects dealing with poverty alleviation, rural livelihoods, SLMF, poverty and HIV/AIDS, trafficking in women and children, child labour and Aids Prevention Education Programme (APEP) for school children with international agencies including the World Bank, DFID, and UNICEF. Her research interests focus on rural livelihoods, monitoring and evaluation of poverty alleviation.

Selected Publications
Uma Vennam (2008) ‘Principles and Practice of Family Counselling’, in Compendium on Family Counselling, Mumbai: Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Uma Vennam (2004) ‘Social Work in Rural Communities in India’, in Leon H. Ginsberg (ed.) Social Work in Rural Communities, Alexandria, VA: Council on Social Work Education
Uma Vennam (2000) ‘Impact of Fiscal Reform Policies on Health Programs in Andhra Pradesh’, paper presented at Fifth Asia Pacific Social Science and Medicine (APPSAM) conference, 24-28 Sept 2000, Kandy, Sri Lanka
Uma Vennam (ed.) (1999) Family Counselling Perspectives and Practices, Tirupati: Sri Padmavathi Mahila Visva Vidyalayam.

Peru

Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE)

Professor Santiago Cueto, Policy Coordinator and Senior Researcher
Santiago Cueto has a BA in Psychology and a degree in educational psychology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and a PhD in Educational Psychology from Indiana University. He has worked as a visiting researcher at the University of California at Davis. Currently he is Senior Researcher and Executive Director at GRADE (Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo), Executive Secretary of PREAL’s Latin American Educational Research Fund, and professor at the Catholic University in Lima. His research has been mostly on education and children’s development. In 2003, at the Global Development Network (GDN) annual conference, Professor Cueto was awarded with the medal for best research in Education, Knowledge and Technology.

Selected publications
S. Grantham-McGregor, Y.B. Cheung, S. Cueto, P. Glewwe, L. Richter, B. Strupp, and the International Child Development Steering Group (2007). ‘Developmental Potential in the First 5 Years for Children in Developing Countries’, Lancet, 369: 60-70
S. Cueto, C. Ramirez, and J. Leon (2006) ‘Opportunities to Learn and Achievement in Mathematics in a Sample of Sixth Grade Students in Lima, Peru’, Educational Studies in Mathematics, 62: 25-55
T.D. Wachs, H. Creed-Kanashiro, S. Cueto, and E. Jacoby (2005) ‘Maternal Education and Intelligence Predict Offspring Diet and Nutritional Status’, Journal of Nutrition, 135: 2179-2186
S. Cueto (2005) ‘Height, Weight, and Education Achievement in Rural Peru’, Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 26(supp. 2): S251-S260
Santiago Cueto, Cecilia Ramírez, Juan León and Gabriela Guerrero (2004) ‘Oportunidades de Aprendizaje y Rendimiento en Matematica de los Estudiantes de Tercero y Cuarto Grados de Primaria en Lima y Ayacucho’, in M. Benavides (ed.). Educación, Procesos Pedagógicos y Equidad: Cuatro Informes de Investigación, Lima: GRADE

Javier Escobal, Principal Investigator
Javier Escobal is an economist with a masters and doctoral studies from New York University and a PhD degree in Development Economics at Wageningen University. Currently he is Senior Researcher at GRADE. His research has focused on poverty and rural development. He was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship to for his research about the links between rural producers and markets. In 2000, the Global Development Network (GDN) granted Javier Escobal the Award for Outstanding Research on Development for his work on the geographical dimension to development.

Selected Publications
Javier Escobal and Carmen Ponce (forthcoming) Trade Liberalisation and Child Well-Being: Assessing the Impact of a FTA between Peru and United States, Working Paper 36, Oxford: Young Lives
Javier Escobal, Pablo Suárez, Sharon Huttly, Claudio F. Lanata, Mary E. Penny and Eliana Villar (2006) Does Having a Newborn Child Affect Income Diversification Opportunities? Evidence from the Peruvian Young Lives Study, Working Paper 24, Oxford: Young Lives
Javier Escobal, Jaime Saavedra, Pablo Suárez, Sharon Huttly, Mary E. Penny, Claudio F. Lanata and Eliana Villar (2005) The Interaction of Public Assets, Private Assets and Community Characteristics and its Effect on Early Childhood Height-for-Age in Peru, Working Paper 14, Oxford: Young Lives
Javier Escobal, Jaime Saavedra and Pablo Suárez (2005) Economic Shocks and Changes in School Attendance Levels and Education Expenditure in Peru, Working Paper 13, Oxford: Young Lives

Eva Flores, Assistant Manager
Eva Flores holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the Universidad el Pacífico in Peru. Besides her administrative duties she also provides research assistance in the area of Poverty and Equity at GRADE.

Erika Frey, Communications Assistant
Erika Frey is a final year student of Social Communications at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). She has participated in a student exchange program at Political Science Faculty of the Mexican university Universidad de Colima in Mexico. She has also been e member of the human rights group “Seeding Memories”, which organises workshops for discussion amongst teenagers on human rights topics. She was also secretary of social projection of the PUCP undergraduate student’s organization.

Arturo García, Research Assistant
Arturo García holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the Universidad Catolica. He is a Research Assistant in the areas of Rural Development and Poverty and equity at GRADE. Before joining Young Lives, he worked at the Ministry of Economics and at the National Statistics Institute.

Gabriela Guerrero, Research Assistant
Gabriela Guerrero got her BA and Masters in educational psychology at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. In 2005 she got a Master's Degree in Development Studies with specialisation in Public Policy and Management at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, The Netherlands. She is currently working as an adjunct researcher in the Education Area at GRADE and as a lecturer in the Psychology Department at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru where she teaches a course in evaluation of educational programs. Her main areas of interest are early childhood and primary education, inequality in education, intercultural bilingual education, and monitoring and evaluation of social programs.

Selected publications
S. Cueto, G. Guerrero, J. Leon, M. de Silva, S. Huttly, M.E. Penny, C.F. Lanata, and E. Villar (2005) Social capital and education outcomes in urban and rural Peru, Working Paper 28, Oxford: Young Lives
S. Cueto, Cecilia Ramírez, Juan León and Gabriela Guerrero (2004) ‘Oportunidades de Aprendizaje y Rendimiento en Matematica de los Estudiantes de Tercero y Cuarto Grados de Primaria en Lima y Ayacucho’, in M. Benavides (ed.) Educación, Procesos Pedagógicos y Equidad: Cuatro Informes de Investigación, Lima: GRADE.

Monica Lizama, Assistant to the Data Manager
Monica Lizama has a degree in Information Sciences and Statistics (Ingeniero Estadistico e Informatico) with experience in the management of data bases in SPSS and SAS. She has worked on data cleaning, supervision and data processing for the National Institute of Statistics and Information in Peru on several national surveys. She joined the Young Lives team in 2003 and has been mainly responsible for coding and data revision and cleaning.

Humberto Lovatón, Data Manager
Humberto Lovatón holds a Bachelor degree in System’s Engineering from the Universidad de Lima and has specialisation studies in auditing of integrated management systems from the Universidad Nacional Agraria. Before joining Young Lives, he worked as Systems Analyst at IBM Peru.

Carmen Ponce, Consultant
Carmen Ponce holds a BA in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and an MS in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. Her areas of interest are poverty and equity; rural economy and development; and employment and labour markets. Before joining GRADE, she worked as Project Assistant at the Country Office of the Inter American Development Bank, monitoring development programs oriented to strengthen the income generating capacities of poor households.

Selected publications
Javier Escobal and Carmen Ponce (2006) Trade Liberalisation and Children Welfare: Assessing the impact of a FTA between Peru and United States. Working Paper 26, Oxford: Young Lives.

Virginia Rey Sanchez, Assistant Director for Communications
Virginia Rey Sanchez studied social communications at Universidad de Lima, and has a diploma in economic and financial issues from ESAN. She also earned a diploma from Syracuse University. She worked as a journalist from 1986 until 2006, with experience on publications such as the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio and magazines such as Somos, Caretas, Semana Económica and Perú Económico. She also worked as correspondent in Lima for the Dow Jones Newswires, and as publications manager at the consulting firm Macroconsult.

Claudia Sugimaru, Research Assistant
Claudia Sugimaru has a BA in Humanities with specialisation in psychology from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. She is a research assistant at GRADE in the area of education.

Alvaro Zevallos, Research Assistant
Alvaro Zevallos has a BA in Social Sciences with specialisation in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. He works as a research assistant at GRADE in the area of education.

Maria Balarin
Maria Balarin is a Philosopher form the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and has an MA in Psychoanalytic studies from the University of Essex and a PhD in Education from the University of Bath. She is currently appointed as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Education of the University of Bath, and has previously worked at the Strategic Planning Office of the Ministry of Education of Peru and as an educational researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE – Peru). Her research interests include the politics of education policy making, the sociology of education policies, education and development, and relations between education and citizenship formation, particularly in Peru and Latin America.

Instituto de Investigación Nutricional (IIN)

Sofia Madrid, Field Coordinator
Sofia Madrid is a professional nurse who trained at the Anglo America Clinic with additional training in hospital administration. She joined the IIN in 1982 as head nurse of hospital unit and later as nurse practitioner in the IIN’s community clinic. Since 1984 she has been coordinator, trainer and national coordinator in a variety of IIN research projects and programs. These have included participation in the first national survey of nutrition and health 1984-5, field coordinator for the school breakfast program developed in schools across the country and subsequently transferred to the government for implementation nationwide.

Dr Mary E. Penny MD, Co-Principal Investigator
Mary Penny has an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge. She completed her medical degree at the University of Birmingham Medical School, and is a MRCP (Lond). She has lived in Peru for 20 years and is currently Senior Investigator and General Director at the Instituto de Investigación Nutricional (IIN). Her main research interests are in the area of infant and child nutrition, health and vaccines. Specific interests include: treatment, dietary management and prevention of infectious diarrhea; evaluation of nutrition interventions (complementary feeding, improved complementary foods, health service interventions in nutrition); micronutrient deficiency, especially zinc; community clinical trials including industry sponsored vaccine trials; and management of severe malnutrition.

Qualitative Research Team (Peru)

Patricia Ames, Lead Qualitative Researcher
Patricia Ames is an anthropologist with a PhD in Anthropology of Education at the University of London. Currently she is a researcher at the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP) and lecturer at Catholic University of Peru. Her research has focused on rural education, addressing issues of power, gender inequalities, ethnicity and multigrade teaching in rural areas, as well as topics related to childhood and socialisation, and literacy as social practice. In 2006 Patricia Ames was visiting professor at the Summer Institute in Language, Culture and Teaching in the Faculty of Graduate Studies at York University, Canada.

Selected publications
P. Ames (2006) ‘A Multigrade Approach to Literacy in the Amazon, Peru: the School and Community Perspectives’, in A. Little (ed.). Education for All and Multigrade Teaching, Dordrecht: Springer
P. Ames (2005) ‘When access is not enough: the educational exclusion of rural girls in Peru’, in E. Unterhalter and S. Aikman (eds) Beyond Access: Transforming Policy and Practice for Gender Equality in Education, Oxford: OXFAM
P. Ames (2005) ‘Multigrade Schooling and Literacy: Linking Literacy Learning in Home, Community and School in the Peruvian Amazon’, in B. Street (ed.) Literacies across Educational Contexts, Philadelphia: Caslon
P. Ames (2006) (ed.) Las Brechas Invisibles: Desafíos para una Equidad de Género en la Educación (editora) Lima: IEP-UPCH-UNFPA

Vanessa Rojas, Research Assistant (GRADE)
Vanessa Rojas has a Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology and a master’s degree in Political Science from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. Her work has focused on anthropology of education. Currently, she is working as a research assistant on qualitative aspects of Young Lives research in Peru.

Tamia Carolina Portugal Teillier, Senior Researcher (GRADE)
Tamia Carolina Portugal Teillier has a BA in Anthropology from Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. She is a senior researcher at GRADE, Lima.

Vietnam

Centre for Analysis and Forecasting / Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences (CAF/VASS)

Le Thuc Duc, Principal Investigator
Le Thuc Duc holds a PhD in Economics from the State University of New York at Albany. He has both personal and professional experience in poverty-related issues, having experienced war and the decades of economic failures in Vietnam, and has witnessed first hand how a few sound policies have helped millions escape poverty. He is currently a section head at the Centre for Analyses and Forecasting, of the Vietnam Academy of Social Science. Before joining Young Lives, he worked mainly on issues related to development in general, poverty, and investment.

Selected publications
VASS (2006) Vietnam Poverty Update Report 2006: Poverty Reduction in Vietnam 1993-2004, Hanoi: National Political Publishing House
Le Thuc Duc and John B. Jones (2005) ‘Optimal Investment with Lumpy Costs’, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 29: 1211-36
Le Thuc Duc, Nguyen Thang and Hoang Thanh Huong (2005) ‘Behind the Provincial Poverty Rate: Which Factors Really Matter?’, Journal of Economic Studies 322: 11-18
Betina Dimaranen, Le Thuc Duc and Will Martin (2005) Potential Economic Impacts of Merchandise Trade Liberalisation under Viet Nam’s Accession to the WTO, West Lafayette, Indiana: GTAP Resource Center, Purdue University
Le Thuc Duc, Nguyen Thi Thanh Ha, Nguyen Thu Hang and Tran Thi Hanh (2004) Mobilising Investment for Development: The Role of ODA. The 1993-2003 Experience in Vietnam, Working Papers on International Investment 04/6, Paris: Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD

Nguyen Thuy Chung, Administrator
Nguyen Thuy Chung leads coordination with local networks for the tracking of changes in the Young Lives cohort sample as well as providing administrative support for all Young Lives activities in Vietnam. Previously, she worked as the administrator at the Vietnam Economic Research Network and Localised Poverty Reduction in Vietnam, which are major projects with foreign assistance. Chung holds a BA in English from Hanoi Foreign Language College and in International Relations from Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Nguyen Than Ha, Deputy Director
Nguyen Thi Thanh Ha is the deputy director of the Centre for Analyses and Forecasting (CAF), Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS). She received her MA in Development Economics from Williams College, USA and PhD in Eonomics from the Vietnam Institute of Economics, Vietnam. Most of Nguyen Thi Thanh Ha’s research focuses on applied macroeconomics and surveys in Vietnam. In addition, she has considerable experience as a project coordinator. For Young Lives Vietnam, Ha is in charge with day-to-day management.

Nguyen Van Tien, Assistant Data Manager
Nguyen Van Tien has a MA in Economics from the University of Queensland. His research has mainly focused on financial issues of state owned enterprises and industrial transitions. Before joining Young Lives, Tien was a senior researcher at the Center for Analysis and Forecast (CAF), Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. He has also worked as a coordinator for business surveys by CAF.

Vu Hoang Dat, Data Manager
Vu Hoang Dat has been working for the Center for Analyses and Forecasting, Viet Nam Academy of Social Sciences for over two years. Before joining Young Lives Vietnam as a data manager, Dat worked as a research assistant in a number of projects mostly related to poverty in Vietnam. Vu Hoang Dat has a masters in Development Economics from the Vietnam-Netherlands Master Programme, Hanoi National Economics University.

General Statistics Office (GSO)

Tran Minh Chau, Deputy Director

Vu Thi Thu Thuy, Survey Administrator

Save the Children UK (Vietnam)

Ngo Dieu Linh, Project Assistant
Ngo Dieu Linh holds a BA in English and Japanese from Thang Long University, Vietnam. Prior to joining Young Lives in December 2006 as an intern, she taught English to schoolchildren in Vietnam. Her current tasks focus on the promotion, monitoring, and evaluation of child participation in Young Lives project activities.

Nguyen Hoai Chau, Policy Coordinator
Nguyen Hoai Chau has a BA from Hanoi National Economics University and holds an MA in Public Management. Before joining Young Lives, she was senior officer for policy research and advocacy at ActionAid International, focusing on developing better social policies, especially for women and children. Chau is interested in coordinating research on the causes of poverty, especially in the context of international integration (fair trade, economic development, governance, food rights).

Nguyen Thi Hong Van, Policy Officer
Before joining Young Lives in September 2007, Van was a researcher at the Institute of Labour Science and Social Affairs and a programme officer at the General Department of Vocational Training (MOLISA). Her role in Young Lives is to support policy monitoring at the local level, child participation work and alliance-building and collaboration. She holds a master degree in Special Needs Education from the Universtity of Oslo.

UK

University of Oxford (Oxford Department of International Development)

Inka Barnett, Health Research & Communication Project Officer
Inka Barnett has an MSc in Public Health Nutrition from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a BSc in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Bonn. Before joining Young Lives, she worked on HIV/AIDS and nutrition for the German Development Service (DED) in South Africa. She has also held various positions as research assistant in health projects in Kenya, Uganda, Benin, and Germany.

Jo Boyden, Director
Jo Boyden is Rreader in Development Studies, University of Oxford. She has a PhD in Anthropology and a BSc in Social Anthropology from the University of London. Her research has mainly focused on children and childhood poverty – particularly in bringing together academics, practitioners and policymakers to develop models and methods which respond to the needs of children, their families and their communities. Before joining Young Lives, Jo was Senior Research Officer at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. She has also worked as consultant on children’s issues to many NGOs and international organisations.

Selected publications
Jo Boyden and Elizabeth Cooper (2007) Are Children Up to the Task of Disrupting the Transmission of Poverty?, Working Paper 73, Manchester: Chronic Poverty Research Centre
Jo Boyden and Gillian Mann (2006) 'Risk and Resilience in Children Affected by Armed Conflict and Forced Migration', in Michael Ungar (ed.) Pathways to Resilience, London: Sage Publications
J. Boyden, C. Eyber, T. Feeny and C. Scott (2004) Child Poverty, Perspectives from Belarus, Bolivia, Sierra Leone, India and Kenya, Virginia, USA: Christian Children's Fund
Jo Boyden, William Myers and Birgitta Ling (1998) What Works for Working Children?, Stockholm: Rädda Barnen
Jo Boyden and Judith Ennew (1997) Children in Focus: A Manual on Child-centred Participatory Research, Stockholm: Rädda Barnen


Graham Bray, Programme Manager
Graham Bray joined Young Lives in March 2007. Previously, he had been Programme Support Manager at VSO (an international development NGO) from 2000 to 2007. His role involved strategic planning, financial management, information management and systems development supporting VSO's international programmes. He has also held the position of Programme Development Adviser and Country Director in Ghana for VSO, and Programme Officer for HelpAge International.


Laura Camfield, Child Research Coordinator
Laura Camfield has a PhD and MA in Anthropology from University of London, and her research focuses on experiences of poverty, resilience, and methodologies for exploring and measuring subjective well-being in developing countries. She was a research fellow with the Wellbeing in Developing Countries Group from 2002-2007, and also coordinated their research in Thailand. Laura is one of the Young Lives Child Research Coordinators based in Oxford, working closely on the theme of 'Risk, Protective Processes, and Wellbeing' and has particular responsibility for coordinating research with the qualitative research teams in Ethiopia and Vietnam.

Selected publications
L. Camfield and D. Ruta (2007) '”Translation is Not Enough”: Using the Global Person Generated Index (GPGI) to assess Individual Quality of Life in Bangladesh, Thailand, and Ethiopia’, Quality of Life Research 16(6): 1039-51
L. Camfield, K. Choudhury and J. Devine (2007) ‘Well-being, Happiness and Why Relationships Matter: Evidence from Bangladesh’, Journal of Happiness Studies (online as DOI 10.1007/s10902-007-9062-5).
I. Gough, I, J.A. McGregor and L. Camfield (2007) ‘Introduction: Conceiving Well-being in Development Contexts’ in I. Gough and J.A. McGregor (eds) Well-being in Developing Countries: New Approaches and Research Strategies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
L. Camfield and J.A. McGregor (2005) ‘Resilience and Well-being in Developing Countries’ in M. Ungar (ed.) Handbook for Working with Children and Youth: Pathways to Resilience Across Cultures and Contexts, London: Sage Publications
L. Camfield (2004) ‘Measuring SWB in Developing Countries’ in W. Glatzer, S. Von Below and M. Stoffregen (eds) Challenges for the Quality of Life in Contemporary Societies, Amsterdam: Kluwer


Gina Crivello, Child Research Coordinator
Gina Crivello has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California and her research interests focus on processes of gender and generation in relation to youth transitions. For her doctoral research she carried out an ethnographic study on the migration of Moroccan youth to Europe, later joining the Refugee Studies Centre (Oxford) to work on a project focusing on the experiences of young Sahrawi and Afghan refugees. She is one of the Young Lives Child Research Coordinators based in Oxford, working closely on the theme of ‘Resources, Choices and Transitions’ and has particular responsibility for coordinating research with the qualitative research teams in Peru and Andhra Pradesh.

Selected publications
Dawn Chatty, Gina Crivello and Elena Fiddian (forthcoming 2007) ‘Identity With/out Territory: Sahrawi Refugee Youth in Transnational Space’ in Dawn Chatty (ed.) Deterritorialised Youth: Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East, Oxford: Berghahn Press
Gina Crivello, Elena Fiddian and Dawn Chatty (2006) ‘Mobility and the Care of Sahrawi Refugee Youth’, Anthropology News 47(5): 29-30.
Gina Crivello, Elena Fiddian and Dawn Chatty (2006) ‘Sahrawi Refugee Youth at the Heart of Child-Centred Care Networks in Spain’ Forced Migration Review, May 2006
Dawn Chatty, Gina Crivello and Gillian Lewando Hundt (2005) ‘Theoretical and Methodological Challenges of Studying Refugee Children in the Middle East and North Africa: Young Palestinian, Afghan and Sahrawi Refugees’, Journal of Refugee Studies 18(4)

Professor Stefan Dercon, Poverty Research Director
Stefan Dercon has a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, and is a professor of economics at the university. Most of his work has been in applied microeconomics, with a focus on Africa and rural issues. His recent research interests focus on risk and poverty, particularly the way exposure to risk and lack of appropriate market and policy responses cause poverty traps. He is the director on international poverty research at Young Lives in Oxford.

Selected Publications
S. Dercon (2004) Insurance against Poverty, Oxford: Oxford University Press
S. Dercon (2004) ‘Growth and Shocks: evidence from Rural Ethiopia’, Journal of Development Economics 74(2): 309-29
S. Dercon, T.G. Selassie and P. Krishnan (2004) ‘The Urban Labour Market During Structural Adjustment: Ethiopia 1990-1997’ in A. Bigsten (ed.) Poverty in Ethiopia, Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies
Paul Collier, Stefan Dercon and John Mackinnon (2003) ‘Density versus Quality in Social Sector Provision: The Use of Household Data for Budgetary Choices in Ethiopia’, World Bank Economic Review, pp.425-48.
Stefan Dercon (2002) ‘Income Risk, Coping Strategies and Safety Nets’, World Bank Research Observer, 17(2): 141-66, (draft was background paper for WDR 2000/01).
Stefan Dercon and Pramila Krishnan (2000) ‘Vulnerability, Seasonality and Poverty in Ethiopia’ Journal of Development Studies,36(6).
A. Bigsten, P. Collier, S, Dercon, B. Gauthier, J. Gunning, A. Isaksson, A. Oduro, R. Oostendorp, C. Pattillo, M. Soderbom, M. Sylvain, F. Teal and A. Zeufack (1999) ‘Investment in Africa’s Manufacturing Sector: A Four Country Panel Data Analysis’, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 61(4): 489-512.

Rozana Himaz, Quantitative Research Officer
Rozana Himaz has a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge and MSc in Economic History from the London School of Economics. Her doctoral research was an analysis on aspects of Child Welfare in Sri Lanka based on various household and community surveys from 1990-2005, using micro-econometric techniques. Before coming to Oxford she has held various positions including Research Associate for an ESRC funded project on financial development (Leicester), Research Assistant at the Micro Simulation unit (Cambridge), Research Economist at the Institute of Policy Studies (Sri Lanka) and consultant for the ILO, World Bank and various other organisations on poverty and labour issues.

Selected publications
R. Himaz (2006) ‘Welfare Grants and Child Well-being: The Case of Sri Lanka’, Chapter 3 , PhD Dissertation, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge (under review, World Development).
R. Himaz (2006) ’Intrahoushold Allocation of Education and Returns to Education’, Chapter 4, PhD Dissertation, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge (under review, Economic Development and Cultural Change).
Rozana Himaz (2002) ‘Youth Employment in Sri Lanka: A Review of the Current Labour Market Situation, Policy and Programmes’, paper prepared for the ILO/Japan Tripartite Regional Meeting on Youth Unemployment in Asia and the Pacific.
Rozana Himaz (2000) ‘Privatisation in Sri Lanka’, in G. Joshi (ed.) Privatisation in South Asia: Minimising Negative Social Effects through Restructuring, New Delhi: ILO, SATT.
R. Himaz and S. Kelegama (1998) ‘Labour Retrenchment in a Privatisation Programme: Policy Issues from the Sri Lankan Experience’, Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences, 21(1&2).

Caroline Knowles, Communications Manager
Caroline Knowles joined Young Lives in April 2007, having previously been Head of Communications at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS, Sussex) from 2004 to 2007. Before that she worked in a variety of communications and publishing roles for Oxfam GB, Transparency International, the Society for International Development, and for 2 years with community projects in Uruguay.

Kate Prudden, Project Coordinator
Kate Prudden joined Young Lives in July 2005 as a project assistant to Jo Boyden through the interim extension period, assisting with finance and preparing the project’s five year proposal. She holds a degree from the University of Liverpool. Before joining Young Lives, she has extensive experience as a researcher and administrative coordinator.

Anne Yates, Data Manager
Anne Yates joined Young Lives in March 2007, having previously worked as the Data Manager for the Well-being in Developing Countries Research Group at the University of Bath from 2005 to 2007. Her role involves designing and managing database systems for verifying, entering, cleaning, and archiving data from the different but interconnected components of the Young Lives Project.

Open University

Professor Martin Woodhead, Child Research Director
Martin Woodhead is Professor of Childhood Studies at The Open University. His main research relates to early childhood development, education and care, including theoretical and policy studies and extensive international work. He has also carried out research on child labour and children’s rights, and was Special Advisor to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, in preparation of General Comment 7: Implementing Child Rights in Early Childhood (2005). He pioneered interdisciplinary teaching in child research, notably through establishing Childhood and Youth Studies as an undergraduate degree at The Open University, He is co-editor of the journal Children & Society and a member of the Editorial Board for Childhood.

Selected Publications
M. Woodhead (1999) 'Combating Child Labour: Listen to What the Children Say', Childhood 6(1): 27-49
H. Montgomery, R. Burr and M. Woodhead (eds) Changing Childhoods: Local and Global, Chichester: Wiley/Open University
M. Woodhead (2004) ‘Psychosocial Impacts of Child Work: A Framework for Research, Monitoring and Intervention’, International Journal of Children’s Rights 12: 321-77 (originally published as commissioned research review for ILO/UNICEF/World Bank)
M. Woodhead (2006) ‘Changing Perspectives on Early Childhood: Theory, Research and Policy’, International Journal of Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood 4(2): 5-48 (originally published as commissioned background paper to Starting Strong, UNESCO EFA Global Monitoring Report 2007, Paris, UNESCO)
M. Woodhead and D. Faulkner (in press) ‘Subjects, Objects or Participants: Dilemmas of Psychological Research with Children’ in P. Christensen and A. James (eds) Conducting Research with Children (revised second edition), London: Falmer Press
M. Woodhead (in press) ‘Child Development and the Development of Childhood’ in J. Qvortrup et al (eds) Handbook of Childhood Studies, London: Palgrave

University of Reading

Cathy Garlick, Data Advisor
Cathy Garlick is a member of the computing team at the Statistical Services Centre at the University of Reading. Her main interests are in data management and database applications and she places a strong emphasis on data quality and consistency. She was responsible for the design of the databases that were at the centre of the Monitoring and Evaluation Programme of the Starter Pack Project in Malawi involving the distribution of packs of seed and fertiliser to farmers. Cathy has been involved with Young Lives since the beginning of the project in 2001.

Selected publications
T. Harpham, M. De Silva, N. Jones and C. Garlick (2006) Maternal Social Capital and Child Well-being in Comparative Perspective, Working Paper 31, Oxford: Young Lives
C.A. Garlick, R.D. Stern and P. Muraya, (2004) ‘Data Management Issues and Problems’, in R.D. Stern, R. Coe, E.F. Allan, and I.C. Dale (eds) Statistical Good Practice for Natural Resources Research, Wallingford, UK: CAB International
C.A. Garlick (2004) ‘The Role of a Database Package’ in R.D. Stern, R. Coe, E.F. Allan, and I.C. Dale (eds) Statistical Good Practice for Natural Resources Research, Wallingford, UK: CAB International
P. Muraya, C.A. Garlick and R. Coe (2004) ‘Developing a Data Management Strategy’ in R.D. Stern, R. Coe, E.F. Allan, and I.C. Dale (eds) Statistical Good Practice for Natural Resources Research, Wallingford, UK: CAB International
P. Muraya, C. Garlick and R. Coe (2002) Research Data Management. Nairobi: World Agroforestry Centre (online at www.worldagroforestry.org/sites/rsu/ )

Institute of Education, University of London

Virginia Morrow, Child Research Associate
Virginia Morrow is Reader in Childhood Studies at the Institute of Education, University of London. She is also Course Organiser of the MA Childhood Studies (sociology of childhood and children’s rights) She has published widely on methods and ethics of social research with children; sociology of childhood and children's rights; social capital in relation to children and young people; child labour and children’s work; children’s understandings of family and other social environments. She is an editor of Childhood: a global journal of child research. As Child Research Associate, she is advising the Young Lives qualitative team on conceptual and theoretical frameworks, qualitative research methods with children, and social research ethics.

Selected publications
V. Morrow (2007) ‘No Ball Games: Children’s Experiences of Urban Space in an English Town’, in K. Malone (ed.) Child Space: An Anthropological Exploration of Young People’s Use of Space, New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company
V. Morrow (2004) ‘Children's “Social Capital”: Implications for Health and Well-being’, Health Education 104(4): 211-25
P. Alderson and V. Morrow (2004) Ethics, Social Research and Consulting with Children and Young People, Barkingside, UK: Barnardo's
V. Morrow (2001; reprinted 2006) ‘Using Qualitative Methods to Elicit Young People’s Perspectives on their Environments: Some Ideas for Community Health Initiatives’, Health Education Research: Theory and Practice 16(3): 255-68. Reprinted in M. Rantalaiho (ed.) (2006) Social Capital among Young Citizens: Children’s and Young People’s Networks and Involvement in Contemporary Democracy, Workshop report, Trondheim, Norway: Norwegian Centre for Child Research
V. Morrow (1999; reprinted 2005) ‘Conceptualising Social Capital in Relation to the Well-being of Children and Young People: A Critical Review’, The Sociological Review 47(4): 744-765. Reprinted in H. Hendrick (ed.) (2005) Child Welfare and Social Policy: Critical Readings, Bristol: Policy Press

Save the Children UK

Helen Murray, Policy Officer
Helen Murray joined Young Lives in March 2008 having previously worked at Christian Aid as a policy and advocacy officer for the Middle East. Her long-standing interest in children's rights and issues effecting young people was highlighted through her work at Birzeit University, a leading Palestinian university in the West Bank, where she coordinated a campaign on the right to education. Helen has a MA from the Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit at the University of York where she focused her research on education in conflict.

Caitlin Porter, Policy Manager
Caitlin Porter has an MA in Governance and Development from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS, Sussex). Caitlin joined Young Lives in June 2007, having previously worked as an in-house consultant with Social Development Direct. Before that she worked with the Mozambican parliament as a consultant with the Association of European Parliamentarians for Africa (AWEPA), as the Afghanistan/Central Asia advocacy officer with Christian Aid, and as a researcher for Concern Worldwide based in Afghanistan.

Anna Wansbrough-Jones, Policy Assistant
Anna Wansbrough-Jones has an MA in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Policy and Management (IDPM, University of Manchester). Anna joined Young Lives in April 2006, having previously worked in the International Operations department at Save the Children UK. Prior to that Anna worked as project manager on a child participation project in the UK, coordinated a child-focused community project in Cambodia and worked as a teacher and a local community project coordinator in Botswana. She has also carried out primary research in Ghana on street children in Accra.

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