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2025

 15 MAY • FACILITATION ON SRHR in SENEGAL

Is there anything more fulfilling than accompanying some twenty NGOs, activists and community actors in their critical reflection on combating unwanted pregnancies, sexual and gender-based violence, and harmful practices such as child marriage and FGM/C? This is what I did with Amref Senegal’s partners in French, my native language, as part of the Devex Global Consult team evaluating Power to You(th). Intense days on the Atlantic coast filled with high energy, new insights, solidarity, and fierce humor!

 

10 FEB • EASTERN NEIGHBOURHOOD

Women, Peace, and Security, and social inclusion are at the core of the end evaluation of the Institute for Peace & War Reporting’s Building Resilience in the Eastern Neighbourhood  (BREN) project I am conducting together with Nur Hidayati (Results in Health). Women’s and minorities’ rights in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Moldova, stay close to my heart. 

2024

20 DEC  • UN AND EU ADVOCACY

Interviewing amazingly brave human rights defenders who faced systematic transnational repression and fought back with powerful counter-narratives towards the UN and the EU, was part of a project end evaluation I did for UNPO.

12 JUL • SHIFT THE POWER

‘We need a new we’ is Liliane Fonds’ motto to engage in more equitable partnerships with the Global South. Together with 3 excellent colleagues from Disrupt Development, I supported the conversations and first steps of LF’s #ShiftthePower trajectory.  A long-term effort, for which seeds are now planted and energies mobilised!

1 MAR • CHILDREN & YOUTH EVALUATORS

Children & youth have wonderfully engaged as evaluators for the internal baseline of the newest  programme Step Up the Fight Against Sexual Exploitation of Children (SUFASEC) of the Down to Zero Alliance.  I had the pleasure to co-design and co-facilitate the child& youth-led process, and support the country teams in conducting an adult-led baseline. Intensive and rewarding! 

2023

15 SEP  • SOCIAL INCLUSION

 How do persons affected by leprosy fight exclusion from their families and communities, and how can one support them? These questions lie at the core of the  end evaluation of the Zero Exclusion Programme I am conducting with Results in Health for NLR – Until No Leprosy Remains. 

2 MAY • DECOLONISE DEVELOPMENT

Engaging more deeply on decolonising our sector: organisation and co-facilitation of two workshops for  Dutch consultants at Nedworc and for Global South & Global North consultants at Disrupt Development. Stay tuned for my blog series on the topic!

20 MAR • TRY  TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

It was a busy winter, with guest-lecturing on inclusive project management; evaluating women’s role in water governance and diplomacy in Central Asia; facilitating Outcome Harvesting by Senegalese NGOs and activists engaged in Amref’s Power to You(th) programme; and successfully supporting Oxfam Novib to be short-listed for a €20mio 6-year EU-funded programme.   

2022

7 NOV • INTERSECTIONALITY

What a rewarding moment it was  to give my training on gender equality, social inclusion and intersectionality to the Netherlands Helsinki Committee, a NGO  deeply committed to human rights in Eastern Europe and beyond!

27 JUNE •  RESPONSE TO SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN

Leading the evaluation of the Down to Zero Alliance’s latest programme to prevent and respond to Sexual Exploitation of Children (SEC) in the Covid-19 context. With dedicated country-based consultants travelling for interviews in the Philippines, India, Colombia and the Dominican Republic. 

30 MAR •  UKRAINE

Are you a family or organisation supporting Ukrainians who had to leave their country because of the war? Could you benefit from insights and tools for mutual understanding and smooth communication across cultural and other differences? I will be happy to assist you  through training and coaching sessions. 

5 MAR • SHRH

 Laying a last hand on the report on the contribution made by the Down to Zero Alliance to the Dutch policy on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (2016-2021). Analysis conducted in cooperation with  Building for Welfare. 

10 JAN • SUPPORTING INCLUSION, FIGHTING CHILD LABOURI  look back on a rewarding period: lecturing on inclusion, and supporting Terre des Hommes NL with evaluation & strategy design on community empowerment, L&A, and private sector engagement of its global Mica Programme. Amazing cooperation with Hilde van Dijkhorst (MDF) and Arna Seal!

 

2021

27 AUG  •  WOMEN IN THE EAST 2

Women, digitalisation and anti-corruption in the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Central Asia: key-issues of the new baseline study that I am conducting for the OSCE Secretariat.

5 MAY  • WARM DATA 

Navigating multiple contexts and systems was at the core of my learning to become a Warm Data host. A highly inspirational course provided by the International Bateson Institute.

27 JAN  • NORTH SEA

Here is my blog/essay A sense of sand, about my experience of living at the sandy northern sea shore.

8 JAN  •  WOMEN IN THE EAST 1

Women’s empowerment in peace & security, ending gender-based violence, and economic & environmental governance are the focus of my current baseline study for the OSCE Secretariat. 

2020

18 AUG  •  BELARUS

Here is my latest blog “Women in Belarus: from pillar of Lukashenko’s regime to fierce opponents”.

1 JULY  •  WOMEN IN INDONESIA

Great start of joint study with Building for Welfare to support Simavi on Menstrual health management  in Indonesia.  Women’s bodily integrity as a condition for social inclusion!

8 JUNE  • LA HAYE

 “Police, perruque et canne à pêche”: 2e épisode de la série de blogs Mes alentours: La Haye, voisinage, paysages.

5 JUNE  •  PARTNERSHIPS

Productive Digital Journey hackathon  @ The Spindle. I help Joint Action Group 6 map key-conditions for effective partnerships. Roadmap due this fall.