Juan Diego Oquendo
Senior Child Safeguarding Adviser, Keeping Children Safe Juan-Diego is a Senior Child Safeguarding Adviser, accompanying organisations from all sectors, from governments, civil society, militaries, schools, sports organisations and the private sector to improve their child safeguarding measures.
About this speaker
Juan-Diego is a Senior Child Safeguarding Adviser, accompanying organisations from all sectors, from governments, civil society, militaries, schools, sports organisations and the private sector to improve their child safeguarding measures.
He has provided technical support to organisations from every region of the world on all aspects of child safeguarding including: developing organisational policies and procedures, investigations and responding to safeguarding allegations, integrating safeguarding into national child protection systems, and child participation in safeguarding.
He has a Master’s degree from Universidad Del Valley in Monitoring, Evaluation and Management of Development, with specific experience and expertise in national advocacy on child safeguarding, safeguarding indigenous and migrant children as well as developing systems for Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning on child safeguarding.
Previously Juan-Diego worked as a journalist and for Asociación Nacional Contra el Maltrato Infantil (CONACMI) in Guatemala strengthening the national child protection system. Juan-Diego speaks Spanish, English and French.
