Veet Vivarta

Veet Vivarta is a journalist and the Executive Secretary of ANDI - Brazilian News Agency for Children's Rights. He coordinates initiatives on media monitoring, social mobilization and capacity building that have been carried out by the organization in Brazil since 1993 in order to promote the Children's Rights. The Media Development Methodology implemented by ANDI has been also replicated by the other 12 organizations in different countries that are members of the ANDI Latin American Network.
Subjects as poverty and inequality, public expenditure, child labor, education, commercial sexual exploitation, disabilities, corporate social responsibility, climate change and communication policies are subject covered by the Agency that works closely with the various sectors that are - or should be - engaged in fostering the quality of the public agenda in Latin America: media groups, governments, civil society organizations, the universities, and international agencies. During the last 15 years, more than a 100 reports and books on media, rights and development issues have been published by ANDI and the ANDI Latin American Network Agencies.