The expert is a seasoned freelance consultant with a profound knowledge and extensive experience in international cooperation and development. With a focus on gender equality and cultural policies, the expert has accumulated thirteen years of professional experience. Throughout their career, the expert has collaborated with various NGOs, think tanks, and international organizations, working with notable donors such as the AECID, DANIDA, EU, MEAE, and UN. This collaboration has been central to their role in developing new partnerships and practices involving data collection, monitoring, and evaluation.

The expert’s primary sectors of expertise include civil society and NGOs, cultural initiatives, gender equality, monitoring and evaluation, institutional development and capacity building, grants, and programme and resource management. They have played key roles in managing and evaluating projects and have coordinated policy-oriented studies and publications related to human rights. Their responsibilities have spanned strategic leadership, programme development, proposal development, partnership management, research coordination, and information management.

Notable achievements include implementing a women’s rights programme in eight Arab countries, managing an interactive platform on feminism, and supporting local NGOs in monitoring, evaluation, and fundraising efforts. Their technical skills encompass project design and management, grants management, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), results-based reporting, qualitative research, and public policy analysis. They also advise on decision-making, advocacy, fundraising, capacity building, communication, facilitation and trainings, networking, gender mainstreaming, and human rights.

With strong computer literacy, the expert is well-versed in advanced Microsoft Office, internet, social media, Survey Monkey, and MailChimp. Their language proficiency includes fluent English, French, Spanish, Catalan, and a basic understanding of Arabic. As a culturally competent individual, the expert has substantial geographical experience in the Middle East and North Africa, with a strong understanding of the policy dynamics and development issues in West Africa and South America.