Dzenana Sabic Hamidovic is a Social Protection & Behavioral Change Specialist at I4DI, where she advises on social protection, inclusion, and human rights-based approaches to program design, policy development, and implementation strategy. With over two decades of experience working at the intersection of social systems, behavioral change, and community engagement, she brings both the technical expertise and the interpersonal depth — as a trained family therapist, coach, and facilitator — to help organizations design programs that actually shift how people and institutions behave.

Dzenana spent nearly 11 years consulting for UNICEF in Bosnia and Herzegovina, advising on child protection programming, inter-sectoral service delivery, and social inclusion policy. At IOM, she served for seven years as a National Project Officer and Area Development Officer in Sarajevo, leading project delivery, program monitoring, and community engagement across migration and social development portfolios. Earlier in her career, she spent over 14 years at IFS-Emmaus working on social development programming across Bosnia and Herzegovina. Across these roles, she has built capacity for governments, UN agencies, and NGOs throughout Eastern Europe and the Balkans on long-term care policy, safeguard and protection mechanisms, and strategic reorganization of social protection resources — making her an effective and trusted trainer and mentor to a diverse range of institutional partners.

Dzenana holds a Master’s degree in Social Work and a Bachelor’s degree in Education and Psychology from the University of Tuzla, and is a certified Family Therapist through the European Family Therapy Association. She speaks Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and English.