Catherine S. PierceMembers of the Team |
| The Director | |
| Reproductive Health (Programmes) Specialist | Population Advocacy IEC Specialist |
| Population Policies and Development Strategies Specialist | Reproductive Health and Gender Specialist |
Catherine S. PierceCatherine Shevlin Pierce is the Director of the United Nations Population Fund Country Technical Services Team (UNFPA CST), Suva. The UNFPA CST for the Pacific is a multidisciplinary team, which provides technical support and backstopping to national and regional population programmes and projects. Prior to assuming this position in March 2000, she was the Deputy Director of the Technical and Policy Division of the UNFPA, New York. During that time, she was the UNFPA Focal Point for International Migration and for The World Bank and was Chair of the United Nations Development Group Sub-Group on Information/Knowledge Management. Ms. Pierce was the Executive Coordinator of the UNFPA Task Force on the Implementation of the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994).
From 1990 to 1995, Ms. Pierce was responsible for the UNFPA's Women, Population and Development programme and prior to that was the head of the Interregional and Non-Governmental Organizations Branch. Before joining UNFPA in 1980, Ms. Pierce was with The World Bank, Washington, D.C.
She has written widely on population and development issues and has been involved in country-level work in China, the Republic of Korea, Morocco, Tunisia, Indonesia as well as other countries. Ms. Pierce has taught at various universities, including Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Georgetown University, Washington D.C. She is a member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and the Society for International Development (SID). She is a member of the Dean's Advisory Committee, School of Liberal Arts, Purdue University.
Ms. Pierce graduated cum laude from Marymount College, Tarrytown, New York; and holds advanced degrees from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; and Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
As Director, Ms. Pierce is responsible for coordinating the activities of the multidisciplinary Team. Her main functions include the development and directing technical support on a regional/sub-regional basis to assist countries in all stages of programming as well as in the formulation of programmes and projects and in their implementation and monitoring. She also directs and coordinates the mobilization of human technical resources of the United Nations agencies and NGOs for the provision of technical support services in the development field, with focus on population. Manage CST Suva's work plan, ensuring sufficient flexibility to accommodate changes in country requests and availability of specialized experts; and direct and establish priorities in the utilization and functioning of the Team members
Email contact: pierce@unfpa.org
Dr. Salesi KatoangaDr. Salesi Finau Katoanga is a Fiji Citizen but a Tongan by birth. A graduate of the Fiji School of Medicine, Suva, Fiji. He holds a Masters Degree in Public Health (majoring in Maternal Child Health/Family Planning) from the University of Hawaii, Diploma in Obstetrics from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and a Certificate on Laparoscopic Procedures, Mary Johnston, Manila. Dr. Katoanga has worked both in Tonga and in Fiji since 1969, first as a general practitioner, then as an Obstetrician/Gynaecologist before entering the field of public health and primary health care with specific interest in Reproductive Health/Family Planning (RH/FP) programmes. In 1988, Dr. Katoanga, with due approval of the Fiji Government, joined the World Health Organization as an RH/FP Short-term consultant (later a short-term professional) and was based in the WHO Office in Suva.
Dr. Katoanga held this WHO post (UNFPA funded) until his appointment as the WHO RH/FP Adviser in the Suva-based UNFPA Country Technical Services Team. Prior to joining WHO, Dr. Katoanga held the position of National Coordinator, Family Planning and Population Control Programme in the Ministry of Health, Fiji. He was also acting as the Director of Preventive and Primary Health Services at the time. Other senior posts held by Dr. Katoanga with the Ministry of Health, Fiji, included Divisional Medical Officer, Central; Chief Medical Officer and Principal Registrar in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Programme. Dr. Katoanga is married with two children.
Dr. Katoanga's responsibilities in promoting reproductive health programmes include collaboration with the governments in planning and implementation of projects/programmes. In collaboration with governments in planning and managing RH training programmes, he also assists in the formulation of project requests in family health (RH/FP) for submission by respective governments to UNFPA.
He collaborates with various WHO intercountry projects in supporting countries to
develop and promote activities of family health projects (RH/FP) as integral parts of
country health programmes. He participates in the evaluation and tripartite project
reviews of on-going projects and provides technical advisory services to governments in
developing, implementing and promoting family planning as an integral part of RH service
programmes in the context of primary health care.
Email contact: skatoanga@unfpacst.org.fj
Susan AradeonMs. Susan Aradeon joined the CST in October 1998 as Population Advocacy and Information, Education and Communication (IEC) specialist.
Although Ms. Aradeon is an American, she has lived and worked most of her adult life in Nigeria. She first worked in Nigeria as a Peace Corps Volunteer in a teacher training college for girls. Later she returned with her Nigerian husband to teach at the University of Lagos and raise their three children. With the downsizing and severe devaluation of the late 1980's, she changed to a career in international family planning, now reproductive health. She led a team of six women preparing the USAID/Nigeria Social Soundness Analysis for the Family Planning, Child Survival and HIV/AIDS Projects. This document was written from the perspective of the beneficiaries and had an especially long section on IEC. On the basis of this work, USAID/Nigeria hired her as Program Analyst. While still based in Nigeria, Ms. Aradeon served as Project Coordinator for the Management Sciences for Health Planned Parenthood Federation of Nigeria Management Strengthening Project. This position involved project management and group facilitation for the development and implementation of clinic, commodity and money management manuals as well as advocacy training for state managers.
She returned to New York in late 1995 and undertook advocacy and IEC proposal and project evaluation consultancies for UNFPA and International Planned Parenthood Federation. In 1997 she worked in Papua New Guinea with the Curriculum Development Division of the Department of Education on the start-up of the Population Education Project, for the initial six months under the auspices of UNFPA and then for an additional two months with the support of the PNG Government's World Bank funding for education. With key stakeholders, the CDD team developed a post-ICPD curriculum framework with a strong emphasis on reproductive health issues, a Grade 8 text booklet on reproductive health and a Draft Reproductive Health Teacher Training and Sensitization Manual.
She has a BA from Smith College in Massachusetts, a MA in Teaching English from Columbia University in New York, and a Ph.D. from Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria. She has taken additional courses in evaluation, public health aspects of reproductive health, and human sexuality and also attended workshops on group facilitation and participatory strategic planning.
Ms. Aradeon is responsible for assisting the countries in the conceptualization and development of population education programmes and project. The identifying and mobilizing national and regional technical resources; providing ad hoc advisory services, state-of-the-art substantive knowledge and skills, and active and close technical backstopping to country programmes and projects. She also organizes/conducts training activities at the regional and national levels and also in playing an advocacy role in population education
Email contact: saradeon@unfpacst.org.fj
Geoffrey Robert HayesGeoffrey Hayes is a Canadian citizen born in New Zealand. He received his BA and PhD degrees from the University of British Colombia and his MA degree from the University of Toronto. Dr Hayes' principal fields of training and scientific interest are the sociology and economics of migration, population and development linkages, and the cultural aspects of demography - particularly in the Pacific Islands region. His earliest research work, which dates back to the mid-1970s, was on the Cook Islands and concerned the demographic and economic impact of the out-migration from that country. The demography and economics of small island countries, and of small islands within countries has been an on-going interest and he has published a number of academic papers on these subjects.
Dr Hayes is responsible for promoting the integration of population-related issues and concerns into national development planning processes and programmes. He offers advisory services in the formulation and implementation of comprehensive population - development policies at the country level, and helps to organize and to contribute to policy-related research and training activities aimed at imparting technical know-how and appropriate practical methodologies to development planners and policy makers.
Prior to joining the Team in November 2000, Dr. Hayes was Chief Technical Adviser on an ILO-executed, UNFPA-funded project "Integration of Population Factors in Development Planning in PNG". He also provided technical advice and project management to the Department of National Planning and Monitoring. He supervised the formulation of the National Population Policy 2000-2010 of the Papua New Guinean government and also contributed to the design of the second UNFPA Country Programme for PNG (1998-2002).
He taught at the University of British Colombia (1982), the University of Hawaii (1988) and was Associate Professor of Demography at the University of Papua New Guinea from 1988-1997 and acted as informal adviser to the World Bank/Ausaid, ADB Population and Family Planning Project (1993-1999) including Co-Chairman of the Research Advisory Committee. Dr. Hayes was a Technical Adviser with the SPC/ILO project "Migration, Employment and Development in the South Pacific" which was funded by AusAID (1984-1987).
He has also consulted widely for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Pacific Islands Development Programme of the East-West Centre in Hawaii, UNDP, UNFPA and for various Pacific Islands countries in project formulation, technical design and implementation.
Email contact: ghayes@unfpacst.org.fj
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