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    Career advice from a Save the Children climate change adviser

    Pacific regional climate change adviser Edel Heuven speaks to Devex about her work at Save the Children Australia and what skills are important to have in this evolving field.

    By Katrina J. Lane // 30 April 2024

    As a Pacific regional climate change adviser for Save the Children Australia, Edel Heuven plays a pivotal role in supporting and guiding project implementation across the Pacific Islands, including Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, and Tonga. Her focus is on assisting communities in adapting to and addressing the impacts of climate change.

    Before joining Save the Children, Heuven served as a climate specialist and monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning, or MEAL, adviser at the CARE Climate Justice Center. Prior to that, she worked as a policy adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and as a disaster risk reduction adviser for Finn Church Aid in Nepal. She holds two master's degrees in international development, one from Wageningen University and another from Radboud University.

    A lot of her work is grounded in the Principles for Locally Led Adaptation — a set of concepts intended to guide community-led responses to climate change. She advised aspiring professionals to navigate this work with “openness to local solutions rooted in traditional knowledge and practices.”

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      Katrina Lane is an Editorial Strategist and Reporter at Devex. She writes on ecologies and social inclusion, and also supports the creation of partnership content at Devex. She holds a degree in Psychology from Warwick University, offering a unique perspective on the cognitive frameworks and social factors that influence responses to global issues.

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