Amy Collins
Regional Child Protection and Safeguarding Advisor, East Asia
Amy Collins is the Regional Child Protection and Safeguarding Advisor for World Vision East Asia. Amy comes with more than 15 years of experience in child protection, programme management, social systems strengthening, and youth/adolescent engagement. She has worked in various different NGOs across the East Asia region in promoting and advocating for child rights and child protection.
Some of her current responsibilities include:
- Providing technical support and guidance in the design, monitoring and implementation of child protection technical programming in alignment with WV’s global strategy,
- Providing technical leadership and support for external engagement and strategic positioning concerning child protection issues, by nurturing strategic partnerships
- Providing technical guidance, training and support to field offices to ensure that the Child and Adult Safeguarding Policy, protocols and incident management system is being implemented
Amy leads and initiates child-protection and safeguarding-related initiatives to build regional collaboration and support positioning, including identifying promising practices, gathering evidence and lessons learned, establishing systems and processes and setting up an effective knowledge management system across the region.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Child protection
Safeguarding
Child participation
Adolescent development
Multimedia communications
