Amalia Fawcett
Ms Amalia Fawcett
Policy and Learning Advisor
PLAN International Australia
Amalia has focused on children’s rights and their experiences in disasters and in poverty for the past 10 years. Before joining Plan, Amalia was a Child Protection advisor for UNICEF in the Solomon Islands. Initially focused on emergency recovery after an earthquake and tsunami in 2007 she then supported government ministries in applying child rights principles to their planning processes.
Amalia has worked for World Vision as a Child Protection in Emergencies specialist in the Solomon Islands and East Timor and in an advocacy role in New Zealand. She also spent time in Tanzania working as a primary school teacher. Her particular focus on child rights in emergencies began at Yale University while writing her MA thesis on the national identity of Rwandan refugee youth. This focus continued at Oxford University where she completed a second masters focused on the protection of displaced children through emergency education.