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Eliana Riggio, also known as Eliana Riggio Chaudhuri, is an Italian UN official, humanitarian and author. She worked for
UNICEF UNICEF ( ), originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing Humanitarianism, humanitarian and Development a ...
in India for ten years, coordinating field projects in urban areas, helping to develop city plans which focused on basic services for children and women. She is currently the coordinator of the International Child Friendly Cities Secretariat at the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre in Florence. She has also served as a consultant to the Italian government on children's rights. She is also the President of the Italian branch of Child In Need India (CINI), a humanitarian organisation founded by her husband, pediatrician Samir Chaudhuri. She has her background from development studies and city and regional planning.


Publications

*Eliana Riggio Chaudhuri, ''Planning With The Poor: The Non-violent Experiment of Danilo Dolci in Sicily'',
Gandhi Peace Foundation The Gandhi Peace Foundation is an Indian organisation that studies and develops Mahatma Gandhi's thought. History The foundation was established on 31 July 1958 to preserve and spread Gandhi's thought. It began with donation of 10 million rup ...
, New Delhi, 1998,


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