Clara Prado

Area of Expertise:

• Communications, Media, Knowledge Management, Editor
• Human Rights, Law, Migration, Conflicts, Justice
• Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research, Analysis
• Private Sector, Social Enterprise, Corporate Social Responsibility
• Social, Education, Gender, Youth, Child

Professional Experience:

Elaboration and Special Projects Advisor / Ministry of Culture of Brazil (march to september 2011): Direct advisement for the Secretary of Cultural Citizenship, Marta Porto: contents development, briefings, presentations, followp-up in strategic meetings and external appointments.
Conceptual development about the core business of the Secretariat: culture and childhood; culture and youth; culture and human rights; culture and environment / sustainability; Culture of Peace.
Ministry of Culture technical representative at the Rights and Citizenship Forum of the Presidency of the Republic: elaboration of Ministry of Culture proposals.
Internal and interministerial activities: participant on the Culture an Education Group (Ministry of Culture); interface with Human Rights Secretariat, Policy to Women Secretariat and Ministry of Education.
Organization of events: Culture and Environment (Rio de Janeiro, 2011); 1st National Culture and Childhood Meeting (Rio de Janeiro, 2011, with professionals and artists from all Brazilian regions; Culture of Peace (São Paulo, 2011). Those events resulted on reports with parameters for public policies in their areas.
Counselor at CONANDA (National Council for Childhoold and Adolescent Rights) and substitute counselor at CNDM (National Council for Women Rights).

Owner at Relevo Cultural Consultancies, São Paulo, Brazil (June 2008 to February 2011): Accomplishment of many cultural services, specially in the areas of Culture and Education, cultural publishing and cultural and social projects evaluation.
Culture and Education: creation and application of workshops to art and social educators. Some clients: CENPEC (Study and Research Center in Education, Culture and Community Social Work, São Paulo, SP); SESC Santana (São Paulo, SP); CEDAP (NGO, Campinas, SP).
Publishing: experience systematization specialist (cultural and social projects). Some clients: CENPEC; Fundação CASA (public institution); Centro Dandara (NGO, gender equalty); Ministry of Culture (Prêmio Cultura Viva catalog).
Evaluation: Prêmio Cultura Viva 3rd Edition. Technical visits and reports about cultural initiatives inscribed on the Prize.

Regional Coordinator at CENPEC, São Paulo, Brazil (August 2008 to Fbrueary 2010): Cenpec (Study and Research Center in Education, Culture and Community Social Work) is an important NGO in São Paulo and in Brazil, which works mainly in providing technical development for public policies in those areas.
I was responsible for the coordination of a team of 12 art educators that worked at 7 different units of confinement in the city of São Paulo, managing all kinds of classes such as capoeira, street dance, drama, rhymes, graffiti, plastic arts, photography and journalism. I managed about 35 cultural workshops that involved about 500 adolescents / month.
Besides that, I had other responsabilities: conception, planning, execution, monitoring and evaluating the project actions; monthly reports; planning and e