Doreen Alaro is a child protection and social services specialist with more than eighteen years of experience supporting government systems strengthening and child protection programming, primarily in Eastern and Southern Africa. Her work focuses on strengthening child protection and social service systems, including within decentralized local government contexts, with particular attention to policy, coordination, and practice-level implementation.
Doreen’s technical expertise includes child protection case management, systems strengthening, policy development, and multi-stakeholder coordination. She has extensive experience working with national and sub-national government institutions and brings strong contextual understanding of political and operational environments. Her work has addressed a range of child protection issues, including children connected to the streets, displacement and conflict, climate-related vulnerabilities, child early and forced marriage, and teenage pregnancy. She has contributed to the development of national guidelines and frameworks, delivered training and capacity development for the social service workforce, and produced technical outputs such as analytical reports, evaluations, policy briefs, and guidance notes. Doreen holds a Master of Science in Anthropology (Cross-Cultural Studies of Children and Child Development) from Brunel University and a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences (Political Science, Public Administration, and Social Administration) from Makerere University and is based in Uganda.