In early 2008, Mary Joy Pigozzi, senior vice president and director of quality education, became the co-chair of the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team on Education and a member of the Inter-Agency Task Team on Education in Emergencies.
Listen to a recording of a recent interview with Mary Joy Pigozzi in which she explains the important role inter-agency groups play in furthering development. She also discusses the topics of HIV/AIDS and education, and education in emergency situations.
Highlights from the Podcast
0:00
Pigozzi explains the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team on Education (IATT) and the Inter-Agency Network Education in Emergencies (INEE), and why it is important for agencies to work in concert with each other.
1:30
Inter-agency teams may not be a new idea, but it is a relatively new practice. What this means to developing countries.
2:30
What AED brings to these partnerships.
3:30
Education is a fundamental right that should be extended to all children, regardless of their circumstances. Pigozzi relates a time when she saw refugee children who were on the run in Rwanda playing school.
5:00
After Sept. 11th in the U.S. everyone was focused on getting kids back to school to normalize their lives. The same is true around the world, but schools play an even bigger role in the lives of people in crisis.
6:15
The IATT looks at the role schools play in addressing the HIV/AIDS crisis, both in supporting children who have been orphaned by the pandemic, and how the education system can remain strong in the face of the crisis.
8:30
How the challenges to achieving these goals are being addressed through cooperation.
10:25
Situations around the world are changing, and it is important that development organizations change as well.
