Jenny is a GESI specialist with extensive social development experience in a wide range of gender and inclusion related areas including gender-based violence, girls’ education, safeguarding, sexual and reproductive health and rights, women and girls’ empowerment and child nutrition. She brings a consistent track record of providing high-quality gender and inclusion technical advice for a range of bilateral and multilateral agencies including UN agencies, the World Bank, IFC, FCDO, USAID, and NGOs. 

Jenny enjoys working collaboratively with clients to strengthen and mainstream organisational approaches to GESI and has significant experience undertaking organisational reviews, developing theories of change and GESI sensitive M&E frameworks. She excels at distilling complex knowledge and evidence into practical user-friendly products and guidance materials for busy policy makers and practitioners.

A social anthropologist by training, Jenny is passionate about the role of social research to support grass-roots solutions to complex social change processes. She has particular interest and expertise in feminist research and evaluation methodologies and innovative participatory techniques. A strong team leader, her diverse experience spans discreet in-depth qualitative studies, organisational evaluations, mixed-methods impact evaluations and real-time assessments of global initiatives.

Jenny has an MA in Medical Anthropology from the University of Sussex, a BA in International Development Studies with Chinese from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), has lived in Cambodia and Ethiopia and has worked extensively in Asia and Africa. Outside of work, Jenny is kept busy bringing up two feminist sons and is a keen walker, swimmer and flute player.