Louise Hemfrey Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

I oversee a portfolio of the Freedom Fund’s partnerships in Ethiopia, closely working with the Freedom Fund team in Ethiopia and supporting our partners on the ground to ensure quality delivery of programs, measure their impact, and support research and learning on behalf of the wider anti-slavery sector.Managing the second phase of USD 11 million from the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. Department of State under their Program to End Modern Slavery (PEMS) in Ethiopia. The program has the aim of measurably reducing the prevalence of domestic servitude amongst girls in Ethiopia as well as improving the migration outcomes of Ethiopian women and girls in the Middle East.Managing first of its kind survivor training and employment program with Walk Free. Building a supportive employment environment for survivors of exploitation and modern slavery in Addis Ababa through training, job coaching, employer negotiation, job placement, alongside tailored psychosocial support, free childcare provision and healthcare.Acting Program Manager for the East Africa Hotspot managing the shortlisting and co-creation phase of 3 million USD program combatting child domestic work through survivor agency and representation across four locations in Kenya.

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

- Managing three-year Department for International Development (DFID) funded grant programme, conducting capacity development in quarterly data collection, report writing. Adapting programme schedule and budget to respond to participant needs, with two partners in urban Kenya, and in a refugee camp in Tanzania, ultimately securing the highest score, A++, from DFID.- Writing research documents and reports, conducting content gathering and sharing learning with colleagues to inform organisational learning and strategic objectives.- Leading annual impact measurement and reporting of programmes portfolio performance againstorganisational KPIs, surveying network stakeholders, informing operational plans, and presenting results to trustees.- Planning content, scheduling and delivery of annual training agenda for 100+ partner staff across fivelocations in Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal, Uganda and Zimbabwe.- Building & maintaining close relationships through meetings, roundtables and one-to-one consultations with key donors, DFID representatives, UN agencies, and other commercial influencers to inform objectives and expand organisational competitivity in the sector.- Project management, including coordinating project groups, scheduling implementation, impact analysis, report writing and presentation to donors and stakeholders.- Contributing to Organisational Culture Working Group, designing a series of workshops and forums for creativity, learning and self-care for Womankind staff.- Line management of volunteer staff incl. objective setting, weekly reviews, task coordination with colleagues.

International

Providing independent commentary on the latest developments in the international women's rights agenda.

Oxford, United Kingdom

- Managed research & evaluation portfolio for strengthening the effectiveness of civil society to challengepoverty and inequality.- Contributed to external report writing, publication proofreading and formatting for influencing policy, strategy and practice in relation to civil society.- Managed Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning database, testing and modifying tools for capacitydevelopment of external organisations.- Contributed to proposal design and project delivery, in collaboration with fellow consultants, for rights-based participatory evaluations.- Contributed to grant management and compliance for European and international institutional donors.- Planned and coordinated learning events for cross-sector of international civil society professionals.

Israel-Palestine And Switzerland

- Built communications relationships with civil society representatives in Israel & Palestinian Territories.- Organised logistics, research schedule, key informant liaison and budget for 4-month field visit.- Developed key informant networks in Palestinian film sector to obtain primary evidence to build an iterative thesis framework.- Liaised with and observed filmmakers on set and during workshops.- Conducted literature review of documentation in English, and French.- Synthesised data from over twenty interviews into iterative evidence framework for final thesis.

Geneva

- Designed women’s rights-based qualitative analysis framework.- Conducted key informant interviews with WILPF stakeholders and influencers.- Qualitatively analysed documentation from the Independent Commission of Enquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic for references to status and treatment of women in the conflict, and compared these with CEDAW rulings, UN Resolution 1325 and WILPF stakeholder interviews.- Authored Gender Analysis Report to the Commission of Enquiry.- Coordinated & presented a workshop to Human Rights Council members and state representatives.- Directly informed WILPF positions and research.Combining a gender analysis of the reports by the Independent International Commission of Enquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic and the Human Rights Council with an investigation of possible areas of convergence to be presented in a final report to the Syrian Women's League and the United Nations.

Geneva Area, Switzerland

The Emerging Security Challenges Programme aims to: 1) Raise policymakers’ awareness of emerging security challenges and their impact on the international community, and 2) Enhance the capacity of governments to address these challenges. To do so, the programme engages in three distinct yet complementary areas of work:-Education and training for government officials and military officers-Dialogue and outreach activities-Policy-relevant researchAssisting in GCSP correspondences and events coordination and management, including administrative support, annotating meeting minutes, and drafting presentation talking points; researching issues in volatile states; editing and cataloguing the research of colleagues; taking charge of correspondences, on behalf of colleagues, between GCSP and stakeholders.

Geneva

- Led scheduling for collaborative working group for national campaign initiative: “Pay Your Interns”.- Supervised modernisation of organisation’s website, conducting phased stakeholder consultations.- Collated subscriber’s database, managing digital content design and scheduling for social media channels.- Built new work-place partnerships with key employers of interns like the ILO and ITC

Boliva

In the summer of 2012 I had a three-month placement in Bolivia as part of DFID’s International Citizen Service scheme. Working with NGO International Service Bolivia, and volunteer organisation Up Close Bolivia (UCB), I worked on the media and communications networks of UCB updating Facebook and Twitter daily, editing and restructuring the website, and developing links with UK university careers centres, emphasising the opportunities to volunteer for the organisation, which worked in coordination with a local children’s centre. Additionally, I organised and coordinated joint events with UCB volunteers and the children’s centre, maintained a volunteer blog, as well as introducing a trial run of computing classes for local mothers with the long term goal of women’s empowerment through skills and employment.

St Andrews, Fife, Uk

Awareness raising events budgeting and organisation, coordinating fundraising task forces, sponsorship appeal to University departments, establishing separate charity bank account, instigated policy focus on Crimes Against Humanity, produced two fundraising theatrical productions.

St Andrews

Assisting the Editor in gathering and refining submissions for the Inklight Journal, a nationally published journal. Designing a Journal Website for the society. Managing workshops, arranging speakers, organising events.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Writing 3-5 reviews a day over three week festival for all genres of performance art, developed and utilised expressive, concise and engaging writing style. Advanced efficiency in time management and communication skills. Acted as representative of publication at press conferences.

London, United Kingdom

UK based Human Rights NGO for Sudanese asylum seekers to the UK. Recruited to manage extra workload during Sudan/South Sudan separation. Collected information about asylum cases via telephone interview and drafted investigative report for UK Home Office. Researched region of East Sudan focussing on ethno-national marginalisation, and drafted policy document

Master Of Art Honours, International Relations, Ii.I

Activities and Societies: University of St Andrews Theatre Fund Inklight Creative Writing STAND Student Anti-Genocide Coalition Global.

Interdisciplinary Master Of International Affairs, Conflict And Peacebuildin, 5.2/6 Gpa

Masters' Thesis title: Identity in Rebellion - Trauma and Identity as presented by Second Generation Palestinian Filmmakers from Israel.

Tefl Qualification, Teaching English As A Second Or Foreign Language/Esl Language Instructor, 95%

Sqa Highers And Advanced Highers, Ah Mathematics, Physics, English - H Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, English & History