Emily Janoch
Director, Knowledge Management and Learning, CARE; SID-W Policy & Learning Workgroup Co-Chair

Innovation Competition Round 1 Judge

Emily Janoch is the Director for Knowledge Management and Learning for CARE USA focusing on ways to better learn from and share implementation experiences on eradicating poverty through empowering women and girls in order to improve impact. She is an expert in designing systems to capture and share information across many sources. With four-years of on-the-ground experience in West Africa and academic publications on community engagement and the human element in food security in Africa, she is especially interested in community-lead development. Her work focuses on making sure that communities can engage in their own development for sustainable, appropriate results. She is fluent in French and Dogon, and has experience in food security, nutrition, health, governance, and gender programming. Her work on holding NGOs accountable to community needs and creating local capacity has been presented at Harvard, Imperial College London, and USAID seminars on USAID Forward. She has a BA in International Studies from the University of Chicago, and a Masters' in Public Policy in Internationals and Global Affairs from the Harvard Kennedy School.

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