CaLP members
The CaLP began as a shared initiative between Oxfam GB, Save the Children, and the British Red Cross. In 2010, the CaLP steering committee was expanded to include Action Against Hunger / ACF International and the Norwegian Refugee Council.
The CaLP Steering Committee:
- Nupur Kukrety – Oxfam GB
- Rosie Jackson – Save the Children
- Mary Atkinson – British Red Cross
- Silke Pietzsch – Action Against Hunger / ACF International
- Selvi Vikan – Norwegian Refugee council
Nupur Kukrety – Oxfam GB
Nupur Kukrety is the Social Protection and Food Security Advisor with Oxfam GB and leads the organisations' work on cash transfer programming in humanitarian contexts. She is also responsible for steering organisational thinking on long term safety net programmes and social protection policies in humanitarian as well as development contexts. Before Oxfam, Nupur used to work with SCUK as the Food Security and Livelihoods Advisor in the Hunger Reduction Team and worked on cash transfers and cash based hunger safety nets. Prior to this she was the Regional Livelihood Advisor with Oxfam GB in South Asia and played a very active role in guiding Oxfam's response in the tsunami affected areas of South India.
Rosie Jackson – Save the Children
Rosie Jackson is a Food Security & Livelihoods Adviser in the Humanitarian Technical Unit at Save the Children UK and has represented Save the Children on the Steering Committee for the CaLP since 2008. In her current role Rosie provides technical support to global emergency response, both in country and from a distance, and in this role has designed and implemented CTP in Vietnam, India, Pakistan and Haiti amongst others.
Rosie studied International Development and prior to her current role she worked in Romania, Peru, Indonesia, Pakistan, Zimbabwe and Swaziland. As well as participating in the steering committee for the CaLP Rosie leads on developing programme policy for emergency cash and voucher programming for Save the Children UK, currently focusing on ensuring high impact programming through the roll out emergency preparedness, standard processes and capacity building throughout the organisation.
Mary Atkinson – British Red Cross
Mary has been the Economic Security Adviser for the British Red Cross since 2006. In this role she is responsible for providing technical support for all British Red Cross economic/food security and livelihood activities, including their cash transfer programming in both emergency and longer term resilience programming. This includes working with National Societies, IFRC and ICRC partners within the RC/RC Movement and providing technical support to BRC Household Economic Security roster of delegates deployed in the early stages of a disaster.
Mary has 11 years experience in the humanitarian sector. Prior to working with BRC she worked overseas mostly in food security programmes, with FAO, Oxfam GB, Merlin, Save the Children, MSF and Children Aids Direct. This included numerous deployments in major disasters in West, Central, Southern and East Africa, South Asia and the Middle East and in different disaster context, particularly conflict and drought. Prior to her work in the humanitarian sector she worked as a nutritionist in the UK, mostly in academic research and teaching. She also taught nutrition at the University of Malawi for two years after finishing her Masters in Nutrition in 1997. She is currently studying part time for a Master in Food Policy.
Silke Pietzsch – Action Against Hunger / ACF International
Silke Pietzsch is the Senior Food Security and Livelihoods Advisor with Action Against Hunger USA, following country programmes, policy and strategy work. She has extensively focused on cash transfer programmes in emergency and recovery work, supporting disaster affected populations and preventing malnutrition.
Previously, Silke worked with ICRSAT (crop research, 1998) and GTZ (2000) in Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal, India and Sri Lanka) on improved seed varieties, addressing the problematic of changing rainy seasons and increased risks to drought, and on community development programmes. Afterwards she joined ACF – UK (2002) to open the missions of Malawi and Zimbabwe, and facilitated the first exploratory mission in Swaziland/Lesotho.
She then joined MSF-NL to work on nutrition programming in Ethiopia, but rejoined the food security and livelihoods team with Oxfam GB (2004) as a humanitarian support personnel, covering flood emergencies in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, the Tsunami response in India and Andaman Islands, the droughts and resulting food crises in Niger and Mali, and chronic crises in East Africa. After a stint in Oxford headquarters for OGB, she rejoined Action Against Hunger in 2006 in Niger where she was Food Security and Livelihoods Coordinator, focusing on improving agro-pastoral production through improved techniques and seed varieties, improving natural resource management through agro forestry, diversifying income generation and contributing to national and local surveillance systems, including remote sensing in pastoral areas as part of the local early warning system.
Silke holds a Master of Food Science and Household Economy from the University of Kiel, and a Master of Public Health from the University of Maastricht.
Selvi Vikan – Norwegian Refugee council
Selvi Vikan is the Food Security Adviser for the Norwegian Refugee Council and represents NRC on the Steering Committee of CaLP. Selvi and NRC's Cash Adviser actively work to build capacity and develop programs that incorporate cash and market responses across NRC's five core competencies: food security; education; shelter; WASH; and Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance.
Selvi has 10 years of experience in development and humanitarian work. Before NRC, Selvi worked in various regional and country offices of WFP (Southern Africa and South East Asia) leading WFP's work in livelihoods and gender. Prior to this, she worked for the ILO and UNECE on faciliatating gender audits; as Australian Youth Ambassador on social inclusion in Nepal; and in the tax and legal department of KPMG (Sydney).
