Work Related to Feminist Research and Organising

• July - October 2022

  South Feminist Futures, Harare, Zimbabwe

  CONSULTANT – RESEARCH ON MAPPING FEMINIST MOVEMENTS IN ASIA-PACIFIC

  Led research into mapping invisible feminist issues and struggles in West and South Asia; Southeast Asia & the Pacific.

• May 2020-Dec2023

  Public Services International (PSI), Asia Pacific

  CONSULTANT – COMMUNICATIONS AND CAMPAIGNS

  Lead and support PSI Asia Pacific’s communications and campaigns work such as overseeing the region’s communications strategy as well as coordinating campaigns for trade justice, decent work for community health workers, democracy in Myanmar etc. Highlights include:

  ▪ Leading the production of the video: Public Service Workers on Frontline of Climate Crisis Fight for a Just and Equitable Transition highlighting the need for quality public services to respond to the climate crisis as well as the role of unions in advancing just transition particularly in small island states.

  ▪ Organising launching of a PSI study: Towards a Public Goods Approach for Climate Finance: the Case Study of the Green Climate Fund at the 5^th ITUC World Congress in Melbourne. This study aims to assess the degree to which international climate finance (such as the Green Climate Fund) strengthens universal quality public services in developing countries.

  ▪ Developing the story: Mana Wāhine Claim: Māori women workers unite to challenge colonial legacies and restore indigenous workers’ rights and leading the production of a podcast and a short video on how Māori women are fighting discrimination in in Aotearoa New Zealand.

  ▪ Creating the social media tools for the #TRIPSwaiver digital campaign which were used by several international organisations to push for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines and treatments during the pandemic.

• May - July 2022

  Malala Fund, UK

  CONSULTANT – LEAD RESEARCHER, GENDER-TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATION

  Led and authored background research on conceptualising Gender-Transformative Education in partnership with Bonhishikha, Bangladesh to inform Malala Fund's strategic programming.

• July 2021 - June 2022

  Oxfam International, Global

  CONSULTANT (VARIOUS)

  Consultant - Briefing paper on securing women's land rights (Apr–Aug 2023)
  Research and author an 8000-word Oxfam briefing paper on securing women's land rights in the context of SDGs and GEF commitments, providing analysis and recommendations targeted at governments, donors, companies, and other stakeholders.

  Consultant – Expert in feminist participatory action research training (Apr–Dec 2023)
  Provide training, coaching, and support to Oxfam's partner organisations in Southeast Asia to integrate Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) methods into their work on water governance to produce evidence-based reports to strengthen gender-responsive advocacy in the region.

  Consultant – Expert in feminist participatory action research training (Jul 2021–Jun 2022)

  Provided FPAR training and targeted capacity support and technical assistance to Oxfam’s Inclusion Project Phase-2 partners in Mekong, including targeted technical advice for the project’s monitoring and evaluation framework in partnership with Edith Cowan University. Led the development of a FPAR toolkit to support the partners in implementing their FPAR work.

• July 2021 - January 2022

  International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW-AP), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  CONSULTANT – GENDER EQUALITY AND MACROECONOMICS TRAINING AND TOOLKIT

  Designed and delivered a series of feminist participatory training workshops on Gender Equality and Macroeconomics for staff and partners, with a particular focus on collaborating with grassroots and community-based activists and organisations. Developed IWRAW-AP’s Gender Equality and Macroeconomics (GEM) Training Manual.

• 2020 - 2022 Enter year from

  ActionAid International, Global

  CONSULTANT (VARIOUS PROJECTS)

  Consultant – Authoring a care framework for Women’s Labour Alliance (October - February 2022)
  Developed and wrote “A Care Framework” envisioning a feminist, just and green future which requires a radical re-valuing and reorganisation of the economy, with care at the centre. This includes literature review of feminist economics theories and grey literature to support the members of Women’s Labour Alliance.

  Consultant – Research Advisor (interim) (March - June 2021)
  Facilitated and supported the piloting of ActionAid's Feminist Research Guidelines in Zimbabwe, Liberia, and Brazil. Reviewed international research terms of references, reports, policy repots and the development of new policy positions.

  Consultant – The Feminist Humanitarian Network Research (September 2020 - March 2021)
  Supported members of the Feminist Humanitarian Network in undertaking a research study to document the experiences of local and national women’s human rights organisations in responding to the challenges of COVID-19 including in designing, providing tools and approaches, analysis and validation of findings and producing reports and materials for policy advocacy.

  Consultant - Piloting of ActionAid's Feminist Research Guidelines in Myanmar (August 2020 - February 2021)
  Supported and facilitated the research team in Myanmar to undertake piloting of ActionAid's Feminist Research Guidelines, including actively reflecting on and documenting the process, to identify and build on good practice, evaluate their usability, identify elements that need changing or missing to support their finalisation, including tools to support their roll-out across the ActionAid federation.

  Consultant – Global report and primer on the impact of COVID-19 on young women working in the informal sector (October –November 2020)
  Authored a rapid assessment report on the impact of COVID-19 on young women living in 22 informal settlement areas in India, Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa. Authored a primer for 16 Days of Activism call to action for the advancement and implementation of ILO C190 and the Beijing Platform for Action highlighting the plights of the young women working in the informal sector.

  Consultant – Expert in feminist participatory action research training in India (October 2019 -March 2021)
  Designed, developed, and facilitated offline and online training for participatory data gathering and analysis methods and campaign tools for evidence-based advocacy on the impact of COVID-19 on young women living in urban settlements in three cities in India. Authored FPAR report summarising the findings and outcomes of the programme.

• 2020-2021

  Asia Pacific Forum On Women, Law & Development (APWLD), Chiang Mai, Thailand

  CONSULTANT (VARIOUS PROJECTS)

  Consultant – Annual report 2020 (March - July 2021)
  Authored APWLD’s annual report capturing the organisation’s major achievements in 2020 including challenges and lessons learnt.

  Consultant – Land FPAR country briefs and regional report (August 2020 - March 2021)
  Authored 10 country briefs and a regional report based on FPAR reports submitted by APWLD’s Breaking Out of Marginalisation (BOOM) programme partners on the issues of women’s access to land and natural resources.

  Consultant – COVID-19 research and database (June - July 2020)
  Undertook desk research to collect, categorise and map data related to policies and measures put in place by governments to address COVID-19 crisis, as well as International Financial institutions in countries in Asia and the Pacific.

  Consultant – Women’s Global Strike Campaign website (March - April 2020)
  Provided technical support for managing the Women’s Global Strike Campaign website including maintenance of the virtual server on Digital Ocean platform and WordPress content management.