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 MoreOver 12 years’ experience working in international development on gender equality, governance and women’s rights programming.
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 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 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.
Read MoreIndependent researcher and Consultant with over 20 years broad experience in women’s rights, gender auditing and analysis, gender mainstreaming, VAWG, peace and security.
Read MoreIan 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.
Read MoreSarah 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.
Read MoreI have spent over 12 years working in international development in relation to women’s rights, health and leadership, and bring a thematic background across a number of sectors including health, SRHR, education and leadership, applying a feminist or gender lens to understand the relevant dimensions and barriers in each field.
Read MoreProfessional human rights and sustainable development translator, editor and consultant working from French and Spanish into English. I help development actors to build stronger relationships by improving mutual understanding.
Read MoreDr 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.
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