Tiziana Zoccheddu

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Tiziana Zoccheddu Tiziana Zoccheddu is a Programme Officer with the UN World Food Programme and heads a suboffice in Gulu, Northern Uganda.


In this position, she oversees all WFP activities across three districts, where a large population has recently stopped receiving food assistance and is gradually recovering after returning to their homes following the closure of the Internally Displaced Persons camps. The majour focus of her activities is a Purchase for Progress (P4P) programme, aiming at supporting sustainable agricultural markets and smallholder farmers’ participation in them.


Prior to this, she was a head of sub-office in Luangnamtha, Northern Laos, and a Public Information Officer for the WFP head office in Vientiane. Tiziana has worked with the World Food Programme since 2005, starting in the Communications and Public Policy Strategy Division of the Rome headquarters.


Tiziana also worked at the Council of Europe, in the field of political participation at local level, local and regional democracy and transfrontier cooperation, and was an intern at the Italian Permanent Representation to the United Nations in New York during the 58th session of the UN General Assembly in 2003.


Her fields of research are international relations and conflict resolution. She studied, in particular, US policies in the Middle East after the Six days war and conflicts over water, with a particular focus on the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960.


Tiziana holds a Post Graduate diploma in State Management and Humanitarian Affairs from the University of Rome, La Sapienza, and a Masters Degree in Political Science-International Relations from the University of Cagliari, Italy.


She currently lives in Gulu, Northern Uganda.


 
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