Trond Waage

Trond Waage (born 14 February 1953) is a child rights expert at the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre in Florence, Italy. [cite web |url=http://www.unicef-irc.org/aboutIRC/whoswho.html |title=Who's Who |publisher=UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre |accessdate=2008-06-26 ] Previously, he was for eight years the Ombudsman for Children in Norway. [cite book |title=Child Honoring: How to Turn this World Around |last=Bakan |first=Joel |chapter=Kids and the Corporation |editor=Raffi Cavoukian, Sharna Olfman (Eds.) |year=2006 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=027598981X |pages=p. 194 |chapterurl=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=une5_sOUf24C&pg=PA194&dq=%22Trond+Waage%22&num=100&client=firefox-a&sig=ACfU3U3tgfhAfbi_KgMeHdEbJZHP-N9UJQ |accessdate=2008-06-26] In this role he initiated the European Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC) [cite book |title=Human Rights Commissions and Ombudsman Offices: National Experiences throughout the World |last=Tasca |first=Elisa Pozza |chapter=Human Rights and the Child: From the New York Convention to the Institution of the Ombudsman |editor=Kamal Hossain, Leonard F. M. Besselink, Haile Selassie Gebre Selassie and Edmond Völker (Eds.) |year=2001 |publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |isbn=9041115862 |pages=p. 150 |chapterurl=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jAYVh16dsOIC&pg=PA150&dq=%22Trond+Waage%22&num=100&client=firefox-a&sig=ACfU3U3Fv-uJe-sBnFyf3q2gXXk5BVDTVA |accessdate=2008-06-26] and was involved in setting up ombudsoffices for children in Europe and Africa. Norway was the first country establishing an Ombudsman for Children in 1981.

His previous positions has been (1) Senior Advisor for the Ministry of Children and Family Affairs in Norway. (2) Director of Research at Childwatch International Research Network which is a global nongovernmental network of institutions that collaborate in child research for the purpose of improving children’s well-being around the world. (3) Senior Programme Officer at The International Council for Distance Education (ICDE), where he had the responsibility to undertake and organise multi-channel learning projects in developing countries in co-operation with UN agencies, bilateral agencies and national authorities. (4) Director of the TV Department at the University of Oslo, Department of Special Education.

Trond Waage is a board member for several organisations and he was also the first leader of the Norwegian Trade Council for Pharmacies, with the aim of monitoring the practice and quality of pharmacy services according to the Standards for Pharmacy Practice. Trond Waage is an educationalist from the University of Oslo.cite encyclopedia |year=2007 |title=Waage, Trond |encyclopedia=Aschehoug og Gyldendals Store norske leksikon |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location= |url=http://www.snl.no/article.html?id=806967 ]

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