Georgia Booth Email & Phone Number

London, GB

I provide tailored support to organisations on programme design, strategy development, research, strategic influencing and grant-making. My technical expertise is in girls’ rights, meaningful youth participation and gender justice and I have extensive experience supporting organisations to work more meaningfully and respectfully with youth movements. An.

Global

• Led the implementation of Plan International’s ‘Powering the Movement’ strategy and grew the team to six people. Co-led the Girl and Youth Power + Action Hub, piloting Plan’s first feminist co-leadership space.
• Oversaw the design and prototyping of girl- and youth-centred grant-making programmes including:- Equality Accelerator, which provides a resource hub, community, fund database and grant-making mechanism for girl and.
• Grants assessor for the Girls’ Fund and the West and Central Africa Youth Challenge Fund
• Led a team that managed the Safer Cities for Girls and Champions of Change programmes as well as the youth advocacy component of the Girls Advocacy Alliance programme (GAA) / She Leads programme. This included the.
• Co-led the youth engagement and mobilisation strategy for the Girls Get Equal campaign
• Managed an internal, global learning and development process. Provided technical advice to Plan offices across the federation on movement building, girl- and youth-led activism and youth partnerships.

• Worked in the Peru office from December – March 2019 and advised on the development of the office’s youth engagement strategy
• Led the development of Plan International’s first ever global girl- and youth-led collective action strategy
• Built and managed a team of two people designing and piloting new initiatives including: Regional youth activism camps, youth network mapping tools and a flexible funding mechanism for youth activist groups
• Co-designed the Girls Get Equal campaign and led the youth-led collective action and movement building component.
• Managed the youth advocacy component of the Girls Advocacy Alliance programme, a 5-year advocacy and civil society strengthening programme in 10 countries
• Coordinated youth advocacy in international accountability processes including Commission on the Status of Women

Independent Consultant

• FRIDA - Young Feminist Fund: Developed the training programme and trainer's guide for FRIDA's accompaniment programme, which engages a group of companions to mentor different grantee groups in their feminist activism.
• Plan International: o Led the development of a new gender transformative youth advocacy module for the Champions of Change programme implemented globally and in the UKo Managed Plan’s girl-centred advocacy and.
• Plan International UK: Supporting editor for the first ever State of Girls’ Rights in the UK report, which was launched in UK parliament in September 2016
• Mercy Corps Europe: Provided project management services from July-September 2016
• Co-led a scoping process to design a collective care, wellbeing and mentoring initiative for girls and women in the UK, including facilitating reflection space and insights workshops with adolescent girls.

London, United Kingdom

• Project managed the Girl Declaration campaign and co-designed the accompanying influencing strategy
• Supported the Investment Fund team to manage a portfolio of grants for girl-led advocacy programmes to influence the Sustainable Development Goals
• Co-designed multi-sector influencing strategies for key global and national advocacy processes e.g. Ethiopia Girl Summit, Commission on the Status of Women and the Addis Financing for Development Conference.
• Led on girl advocacy for the organisation. This included developing youth-friendly policy briefings, designing training workshops, and project managing delegations of girl activists
• Led on the design and development of the first strategy and staff toolbox on girl engagement
• Represented Nike Foundation in the Girl Declaration Joint Advocacy Group and inputted into the SDG indicators strategy and recommendations

• Developed case files, reports and actions on the individuals at risk cases and thematic campaigns
• Co-led on communications activities for the Central America coordinators team, including updating the social media sites and producing content for AIUK website, blogs and newsletter
• Co-designed and delivered the Guatemala: No Going Back conference in May 2014
• Led on members’ capacity-building, including supporting students to deliver a resolution at the 2014 AGM calling for increased campaigning on impunity. The resolution was carried overwhelmingly.

• Authored a report on corporate responsibility and partnerships to inform the advocacy strategy
• Assisted the Head of Fundraising with the drafting of funding applications and interim reports. The organisation reported a 47% increase in funding in 2013.
• Assisted in the planning and delivery of PBI’s annual gala event in May 2013.

• Provided advocacy support to age-disputed asylum seekers in detention centres and supported them in age assessments and meetings with solicitors
• Led on the development of the 2012 statistics report for the Age Dispute Team and wrote a research paper on the treatment of child refugees in the EU

Guatemala

• Managed the Guatemala office, managing partnerships with two women’s cooperatives and a microfinance programme for women
• Coordinated a team of volunteers with our partner organisations
• Led on all external and internal communications, including web-content and social media.

Ma Understanding And Securing Human Rights, Human Rights, Distinction

Ba Economics And Social Sciences, Social Anthropology, 2.1