photo of Jeanne Ward
Location of the provider
US
Type of provider
Individual Consultant
List of services offered
Organisational culture
Policy development
Safe programming
Standards, audits and reviews
Survivor-centred case handling and referrals
Systems and procedures for safeguarding implementation
Type of client
Community-based organisations
International finance institutions
International Non-Governmental Organisations
Multi/bi-lateral donors of aid and development
Non-Governmental Organisations
Private sector organisations delivering aid and development
Research and academic institutions
United Nations
Safeguarding expertise
Protection from sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment; PSEAH
Safeguarding
Programmatic / thematic area(s)
Gender based violence/ Violence against women and girls
Research
Social Protection
Context in which services are delivered
Humanitarian
Development
Geographical coverage
Global
Languages spoken
English
Spanish

Jeanne Ward is an internationally recognized expert on VAW and PSEA who has almost 20 years of global consulting experience. She provides technical leadership, training, assessment and evaluation support to UN agencies, INGOs, NGOs/CBOs and government partners in developing and improving VAW-related research, policies, systems, and programs, as well as in improving institutional and system-wide capacity to address SEA.  She has consulted in all regions of the world. She is active on several rosters, including as technical advisor to the GBV AoR Helpdesk through Social Development Direct. She is the author of numerous publications on VAW,  and has developed globally disseminated tools and guidelines.   Most recently she led the revisions to the 2005 global guidelines on GBV for humanitarian settings; drafted a comprehensive web tool for UN Women on designing, implementing and monitoring VAWG programming in humanitarian settings; and wrote the first-ever comprehensive guidelines on coordinating GBV in humanitarian settings. She was also responsible for developing and piloting the first global PSEA training tools for managers and focal points.  She has taught at Smith College and Columbia University, and has been awarded a visiting Assistant Professorship at University College Dublin. 

She is a native English speaker with basic knowledge of Spanish.

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