Dr Alyson Brody

Area of Expertise:

• Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research, Analysis
• Private Sector, Social Enterprise, Corporate Social Responsibility
• Social, Education, Gender, Youth, Child

Professional Experience:

I am a gender and development researcher and consultant with over 20 years' experience and a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology (with a focus on gender and development) from SOAS, London University.

I have provided technical assistance for multiple non-governmental, bilateral and multilateral organisations, including UN Volunteers, the Asian Development Bank, the World Food Programme, the European Union, the UK Department for International Development, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the Swiss Agency for Development; Irish Aid; Oxfam; the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development; the Tropical Health and Education Trust and the UK Commonwealth Secretariat.

The former head of BRIDGE, a globally-respected gender and development research programme based at the Institute of Development Studies, I have a track record of leading innovative research and knowledge programmes and of writing and disseminating ground-breaking policy-oriented publications and developing training materials aimed at supporting development policy-makers and practitioners to integrate gender and equality across their work, as well as generating knowledge on a range of gender-specific issues. I have wide thematic expertise, including on women’s political participation; gender-responsive food security and climate change policy and programme design; gender-sensitive health work; violence against women and girls; and trafficking and migration.

I have extensive experience in conducting gender-responsive social research and policy analysis; policy advising; promoting organisational learning through participatory approaches; and running high-level multi-stakeholder events on equality; and diversity issues.

From 2012 – 2016 I managed a partnership between the Institute of Development Studies and the World Food Programme entitled ‘Innovations from the Field – Gender Mainstreaming from the Ground Up’, a $2 million USAID-funded programme which focused on supporting institutional learning and capacity building through participatory action research processes. The programme engaged staff in eight country offices (including Kenya, Senegal, Benin, Malawi and Lesotho).

All the assignments I have undertaken have required a highly developed capacity to gather, analyse, assimilate and synthesise a large amount of qualitative and quantitative data from multiple sources that include datasets, literature, key informant interviews, in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. They have also required a strong understanding of different stakeholders, including policy and practitioner audiences for published products, guidance and training materials; and beneficiary needs.

I have extensive experience of writing and editing high-quality publications. Recent publications include the Country Gender Assessment of Georgia for the ADB (https://www.thet.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Exploring-Gender-Equality-in-the-Health-Workforce-1.pdf) and the public