Feminist sub-granting across MENA
Designed and ran participatory sub-granting schemes worth €8M+ for 250+ social enterprises, CSOs and women's-rights organisations. Tools in …
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Moving resources to the organisations doing the work.
Fifteen years between humanitarian operations and participatory design — from refugee response in Iraqi Kurdistan to sub-grants across Yemen, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia. Currently with Oxfam Italia and Disrupt Development.
Now · Oxfam Italia · Disrupt Development
Based · Torino, Italy
Working in · EN · IT · FR · ES · AR
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Featured Projects
Selected work, recent first.
Sub-granting, project management, participatory design — across humanitarian, peacebuilding, gender and community contexts.
Volunteers in Europe's refugee response
Methodology and coordination of a four-country mapping study on volunteer organisations supporting refugees and migrants in Europe.
Read more → →Arbat Community Center, Sulaymaniyah
Stood up a multi-service centre serving refugees, IDPs and host community — including a GBV survivors' service and a youth volunteer program…
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About
A practitioner of careful systems and uncomfortable conversations.
I work where participatory design, feminist principles and the unglamorous parts of operations meet. Most of what I do is build the scaffolding — calls for proposals, contracts, dashboards, evaluation frameworks — that lets local organisations move quickly when they need to.
The rest is listening: to grantees, to communities, to the people closest to a problem who already know the shape of its solution.
Participatory by default
Tools designed with the people who will use them, in the language they actually speak.
Operationally rigorous
Compliance, audit trails and donor reporting that don't slow the work down.
Feminist principles
How power moves matters as much as how money moves. Designed in.
Learning, not theatre
Evaluations grantees actually read — and that change what we do next.
Services
Six things I keep being hired to do.
For UN agencies, INGOs, foundations, social enterprises and community-based organisations.
Sub-granting design & management
Calls for proposals, contracts, SoPs, evaluation frameworks, grantee support — multilingual.
Project management & implementation
Budgets, donor reporting, consultancies, partnerships with local CSOs and authorities.
Proposal development & fundraising
20+ proposals contributed to, ~€20M raised, on gender, peacebuilding, green economy, civil society.
Participatory facilitation
Community workshops, listening campaigns, public debate, holistic online facilitation.
Operations & org development
Admin manuals, cloud workflows, financial systems — built for organisations growing fast on small budgets.
Monitoring, evaluation & learning
Lean-data MEL, feminist principles, learning research, evaluations that grantees actually use.
Footprint
Where the work has happened.
Twelve countries between field missions, fellowships and remote sub-grant management — across the EU, the Maghreb, the Levant, the Gulf and Iraq.
Countries
ITItaly
DEGermany
FRFrance
ESSpain
IQIraq
JOJordan
TNTunisia
MAMorocco
TRTurkey
YEYemen
LBLebanon
PSPalestine
Languages
Italian
Native
English
Full professional
French
Full professional
Spanish
Intermediate
Arabic
Intermediate