Eleanora de Guzman

Eleanora (Nora) de Guzman has more than 25 years’ experience in planning, managing, and evaluating communication and development projects in Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, Niger, Senegal, Mali, and Bahrain.  Her skills and experience include project planning and management, behavior change communication, integrated multi-media campaign planning and management, advocacy and social mobilization, communication materials development, planning and implementing participatory training programs as well as quantitative and qualitative behavioral research.   She has worked extensively on Avian and Pandemic Influenza, FP/Reproductive Health, EPI, CDD, guinea worm eradication, HIV/AIDS, and nutrition. Currently AED’s PREVENT Coordinator in Vietnam, Ms. De Guzman was AED’s Vietnam-based AI-BCC Country Coordinator from 2006 to 2009.  She also served as AED’s Chief of Party of the award-winning The Social Acceptance Project – Family Planning in the Philippines. She worked with UNICEF as International Communication Officer for Indonesia and as Guinea Worm Eradication Program Coordinator in India. She helped strengthen the Senegal Ministry of Public Health’s Child Survival Communication program as AED’s HealthCom Resident Advisor.  In 2008, Vietnam’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development presented Ms. De Guzman, as AI-BCC Coordinator, with a medal for “successful contribution to agriculture and rural development,” an honor accorded few development expatriates in the country.  She holds a Master in Development Studies degree from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands, and an MA from the School of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Philippines.

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