Ian D. Plaskett

Ian is a senior safeguarding and PSEAH expert with 24+ years’ experience, advising UN, donors, civil society, and private sector on risk, compliance, GEDSI, and protection.

Zeina Mhidli

Zeina Mhidli is a gender consultant and researcher working on the areas of gender mainstreaming, gender and economic justice, social movements, and feminist foreign policy. She holds over nine years of work experience with international and feminist organizations, with her work focused on the Middle East and North Africa Region.

Gender mainstreaming, Gender responsive budgets, LGBT rights, Intersectionality, Policy analysis, Programming, Proposal writing, Research, Strategy development, Women's economic justiceGADN Coordinator4 August 2021

Kanwal Ahluwalia

Freelance consultant with over twenty years’ experience of working in international development, with specific expertise in women and girls’ rights programming within a range of organisations, including Womankind Worldwide, Childhope UK, Plan UK, the Overseas Development Institute and Girl Effect.

Adolescent Girls, Gender training, Gender mainstreaming, Programming, VAWG, Women's rights, Facilitation, Women's participationGADN Coordinator25 April 2019

Raida Al-Zu'bi

Raida Al-Zu'bi is a Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Specialist with an M.A. in Sociology from the US (Magna Cum Laude) and over 20 years of progressively responsible work experience at established international development organisations.

Women's rights, Research, SDGs, Advocacy, Economic Policy, Facilitation, Fundraising, Gender training, Monitoring & Evaluation, Programming, Proposal writing, SRHR, Social norms, Unpaid care, WEE, Women's economic justiceGADN Coordinator24 April 2019

Amita Bhakta

My expertise lies within the provision of WASH for women and girls in low and middle income countries. I am an independent consultant and researcher with 7 years’ experience in working on the WASH needs of perimenopausal women, people with disabilities and people with incontinence

Adolescent Girls, Programming, Disability rights, Environment, Gender mainstreaming, Gender training, Health, Proposal writing, Research, SDGs, Social norms, SRHRGADN Coordinator24 March 2019

Leila Billing

Gender consultant with 15 years’ experience of programming and movement-building to promote the rights of adolescent girls and young women. Expertise in VAWG, safeguarding, feminist leadership and feminist capacity development.

Adolescent Girls, Gender training, Intersectionality, Programming, Safeguarding, Social norms, VAWG, Women's participationGADN Coordinator22 March 2019

Mary Ann Brocklesby

Mary Ann has more than 25-years gender, diversity, social development and governance experience in consultancy, management, training and research on the gender equity, poverty, rights-based and human development aspects of development.

Access to justice, Facilitation, Intersectionality, Monitoring & Evaluation, Policy analysis, Women's participation, Women's rights, ProgrammingGADN Coordinator10 March 2019

Njahira Gitahi

My expertise in research encompasses feminist movement building, feminist knowledge production, SRHR and SGBV, conflict prevention and resolution, international human rights, humanitarian law, youth and women's participation in peace processes, women, politics and governance, and leveraging grassroots indigenous knowledge for peace promotion.

Rachel Haynes

Lead consultant at Flamingo for NGOs, which offers funding, learning and management services to a wide range of international NGOs., undertaking peer reviews and proposal reviews, providing coaching and training, FR strategy development & donor trends, analysis and research.

Facilitation, Programming, Proposal writing, ResearchGADN Coordinator21 January 2019

Elanor Jackson

Over twenty years’ experience working in international development and on children’s rights, women's rights and gender equality programmes. Specific thematic expertise on child protection and child safeguarding, violence against women and girls, women's political participation, discriminatory social norms, media and development, as well as monitoring, evaluation and research.

Gender mainstreaming, Gender training, Monitoring & Evaluation, Programming, Safeguarding, Social norms, VAWG, Women's rightsGADN Coordinator11 January 2019

Lindsey Jones-Renaud

Lindsey Jones-Renaud is a feminist facilitator, trainer, advocate and entrepreneur whose work focuses on the intersection of gender with economic development, social justice, care work, the digital economy, and institutional change.

Anna Lidstrom

Anna Lidstrom (BA in Political Science, MA in Peace and Conflict studies) is a Senior Gender, Women, Peace and Security expert and Evaluator.

Women's rights, Conflict resolution, Access to justice, Gender mainstreaming, Monitoring & Evaluation, Women's Peace & Security, Programming, Org. mainstreamingGADN Coordinator17 December 2018

Kathryn Lockett

A Senior Gender, Conflict and Stability Adviser with the UK Stabilisation Unit, having worked on gender, GBV and conflict issues for the last twenty years.

Gender mainstreaming, Gender training, Monitoring & Evaluation, Programming, Proposal writing, Research, VAWG, Women's Peace & SecurityGADN Coordinator16 December 2018

Rose Pinnington

I am a researcher and consultant supporting organisations to achieve equitable and inclusive processes and outcomes. With 10+ years of experience within the global development sector, including in fragile and conflict-affected settings, I support inclusive, context and conflict-sensitive programming and policy.

Adolescent Girls, Women's rights, Economic Policy, Gender training, Intersectionality, Monitoring & Evaluation, Policy analysis, Programming, Social norms, Strategy development, Women's Peace & Security, WEEGADN Coordinator18 November 2018

Sarah Rowse

Sarah Rowse is a freelance Gender Adviser and member of a core team of Deployable Civilian Experts in Gender, Conflict and Stability for the UK Government’s Office of Conflict, Stabilisation and Mediation.

Education, Gender training, Gender mainstreaming, Monitoring & Evaluation, Programming, VAWG, Women's Peace & Security, Women's rightsGADN Coordinator4 November 2018

Debbie Solomon

Currently a Deputy Executive Director with experience in International Freedom of Expression and a Black Queer LGBTI activist.

Women's rights, Gender mainstreaming, Gender responsive budgets, Intersectionality, Programming, Race and ethnicity, Safeguarding, SDGs, Social norms, Strategy development, Women's Peace & Security, Women's participationGADN Coordinator18 October 2018

Maryam Tanwir

Dr Maryam Tanwir has an MPhil, PhD and Post doctorate in International Development from the University of Cambridge. She has been a Lecturer and Coordinator for paper 340 “Gender and Development” at the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge since 2015.

Shannon Thomson

Shannon is a women’s economic empowerment specialist with 10 years of project management and research experience. She is passionate about ensuring women’s voices are at the centre of the narrative on economic empowerment through qualitative action research and participatory programming.

VAWG, Facilitation, Monitoring & Evaluation, Org. mainstreaming, Programming, Proposal writing, WEEGADN Coordinator12 October 2018

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