Professional Experience:
30+ years of experience in program design, implementation, management and monitoring and evaluation of education, gender, health and institutional capacity building activities in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Currently consulting with IREX as the lead researcher on their new USAID-funded program in Guatemala: Harnessing Emerging Political Leadership for an Accountable Guatemala. In the process of designing and conducting a gender gap and social inclusion analysis; including focus groups with youth between the ages of 16-35 years old, key informant interviews with representatives from youth-led and youth-serving organizations. and a desk review. Will develop a gender integration plan for the project.
Also providing on-going technical assistance to IREX's USAID-funded Takamol activity in Jordan on gender equality and female empowerment. Provide support the Takamol team, developed a facilitator and youth training guide on Gender 101, as well as new modules on communicating gender; gender-based violence; and constructive male engagement.
Provide technical assistance to Banyan Global on their USAID-funded youth-workforce development activity in Honduras which focuses on training and job placement for at-risk adolescents and young adults, ages 16-30 years old, living in high-crime municipalities. Developed recommendations and designed the Gender and Social Inclusion Strategy to guide the activity to ensure that the specific needs of young men and women, as well as LGBT and indigenous populations, are considered and addressed to achieve activity results. The Honduras Mission recently circulated the gender assessment within the DRG Center as successful example of a gender assessment that is LGBTI inclusive.
Spent 7 years in Mozambique as US Mission Gender Advisor under PEPFAR where I successfully articulated, shaped and elevated gender issues across the USG portfolio (CDC, Dept of Defense, Dept of State, Millennium Challenge Corp, Peace Corps and USAID).Provided strategic and technical assistance to USAID staff and implementing partners on gender-related best practices for agriculture, health, democracy and governance and education; the role of civil society and the private sector in health service provision; and the cultural and economic context of the epidemic in Mozambique and the region. As Mission technical lead on $21 million dollar GBV Initiative (GBVI) under PEPFAR, I designed the Initiative, supported 23 USG partners and 5 ministries to successfully integrate GBV into HIV programming. Also served as USAID technical lead on the DREAMS Initiative to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women.
Prior to USAID, I successfully managed NGOs programs on youth development; girl's education, non-formal education and workforce development.
Skills include:
• Conducting gender analysis, mainstreaming, integration for program design.
• Developing and adapting gender-responsive materials: training manuals and modul