Dr. Peggie Inyang, PhD, MSc

Dr. Peggie Inyang is a child protection specialist with over 15 years of experience supporting government led and UN agency aligned programmes in safeguarding, child protection systems strengthening, and civil registration. Her expertise includes birth registration and legal identity work in collaboration with the National Population Commission, ministries of social welfare and health, and humanitarian partners.

She serves as Global Safeguarding Manager at Girls Not Brides, leading organisational safeguarding systems, technical guidance on safeguarding standards and risk mitigation, survivor centred responses, and policy support to partner organisations worldwide.

She previously served as Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Technical Advisor with Cuso International in Nigeria, as Child Protection in Emergencies Coordinator with Save the Children International, and in a USAID funded orphans and vulnerable children project where she managed birth registration for vulnerable households and strengthened linkages between civil registration, child protection, and social welfare services.

Her practice spans programme design, results based management, monitoring, policy and guidelines development, and partnerships across development and humanitarian contexts.