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Suzanne Dumouchel
In addition to her master’s degree in social work, Suzanne Dumouchel has more than twenty-five years of international cooperation experience. She has acted as a gender equality consultant to various project teams and partners, helping them develop tools for analyzing and implementing gender equality strategies in sectors such as local governance, small arms, human rights, democratic development, conflict prevention, agriculture, economic development, and post-disaster reconstruction.
Ms. Dumouchel planned, managed, and monitored two innovative women’s rights projects in Africa, relating to networking and civil society-government cooperation strategies as well as men’s involvement in regional activities. Four national women’s rights networks ensuing from these projects are still active.
She wrote a case study based on one of these projects to illustrate the role of civil society in aid effectiveness, and coordinated the analysis of five best practices in the area of women’s rights/gender equality (West Africa and the Great Lakes).
In 1989, Ms. Dumouchel initiated the reevaluation process that led to CECI’s adoption of a women and development policy (1992), and she also set up a gender committee.
