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Susanne Schirmer - Project Coordinator / Communications Coordinator

Governance; Participation Power and Social Change
T: +44 (0)1273 915801
E: s.schirmer@ids.ac.uk

Thematic Expertise:
Governance; Adaptive Social Protection.

Geographic Expertise:
Sub Saharan Africa.

Susanne works as Project Coordinator in the Governance team and as Communications Coordinator in the Participation, Power and Social Change team.

Susanne provides administrative support and project coordination for the SDC funded project on 'The Governance of Service Delivery' in the IDS Governance Team.

She also works as Communications Coordinator for the IDS Participation, Power and Social Change Team. In this role she looks after the team's website and supports the communication strategy for the team and for individual fellows in the team.

She previously provided support for the 'Adaptive Social Protection' project in the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction Team.

The Adaptive Social Protection in the Context of Agriculture and Food Security Programme (ASP Programme) explores and highlights the benefits of an interlinked approach to risk reduction and resilience building in rural areas of developing countries.

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A new partnership between the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and IDS has been formed with the aim of supporting SDC’s ‘Democratisation, Decentralisation and Local Governance Network’ (DLGN) between 2012 and 2014. IDS’ contribution will seek to improve DLGN’s effectiveness and impact of policy strategies and operations.

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