This Directory includes freelancers and consultants with expertise on gender equality, women's rights and international development.
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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.
Read MoreGender 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.
Read MoreWomen's empowerment specialist, with experience of working with displaced populations including victims of trafficking, refugees and exploited foreign domestic workers. Previous experience designing and delivering a range of support provisions for people experiencing homelessness and destitution across the world, with particular focus on the UK and Middle East.
Read MoreFreelance gender and development researcher and consultant with over 20 years' experience. Specialising in gender analysis, gender mainstreaming; and organisational learning. Wide thematic expertise, including women’s political participation; food security; climate change; VAWG; trafficking and migration. Clients include ADB; EU; DFID; UN Women; Oxfam; World Food Programme and OECD.
Read MoreDiya holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Diya has 19 years of research experience and 15 years of professional experience in monitoring and evaluation, policy & advocacy, knowledge management, programme management, research management and networking including working with the United Nations (World Bank, UN Women and UNDP).
Read MoreMy 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.
Read MoreI am a passionate feminist applied researcher. My areas of interests are: Violence Against Women and Girls, Violence Against Children, quantitative and qualitative research methods and measurement frameworks related to
Read MoreAn independent gender equality and social inclusion consultant, with nearly fifteen years of experience, the majority spent working for the UK Government. Expertise in gender and inclusion analysis, qualitative research
Read MoreOver 12 years’ experience working in international development on gender equality, governance and women’s rights programming.
Read MoreSenior global health and development strategist with over two decades of leadership in sexual and
reproductive health and rights (SRHR), gender equality, and health systems strengthening.
Sinem Hun is an award-winning gender consultant, human rights lawyer, and the founder of Genderscope.
Read MoreOver 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.
Read MoreNeha and Manju are racial justice facilitators with over 25 years of combined experience working across various sectors including INGOs, higher education, multi-lateral donors and government institutions.
Read MoreI am a gender and human rights advocate working in international development for more than 18 years. I have cross thematic experience of work with excluded communities through civil society organisations, government bodies, corporates, movements and social activists.
Read MoreA Senior Gender, Conflict and Stability Adviser with the UK Stabilisation Unit, having worked on gender, GBV and conflict issues for the last twenty years.
Read MoreIndependent researcher and consultant with 15 years extensive gender equality analysis, training, facilitation, report-writing, capacity development, policy development and programme experience in a wide range of sectors with diverse organisations.
Read MoreAlina is an independent consultant with over 20 years of experience in the area of human rights, gender, diversity and social inclusion.
Read MoreAs a trailblazer in governance and women’s rights, I retired as Ebonyi State’s first Female Head of Service after decades of public sector leadership. My career focuses on advancing gender equality through policy reform, stakeholder engagement, and capacity-building initiatives.
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