Small Grant and Capacity Building Initiative Expert Panel
IWEI’s Experts Panel will facilitate a structured exchange between Iraqi women NGOs and a group of experts who, with their diverse backgrounds, can help the women’s NGOs in all aspects of NGO capacity building and sustainability, including but not limited to: (i) NGO management and fundraising; (ii) use of the media; (iii) advocacy for women’s rights and legal issues and; (iv) networking with both national and international NGOs so that Iraqi women can maximize their role as advocates for change within their own societies. In addition, IWEI will establish two resource centers where women will receive skills and job training. Therefore, IWEI will facilitate an exchange between women and experts in fields such as law, engineering, and international organizations so that Iraqi women can garner specific advice or information about that particular field.
A coordinator will communicate with the participants and the women's groups via e-mail, phone, site visits and during the national meetings to survey them about their needs and challenges, get updates on their activities, and identify common issues of interest. The coordinator will use this information to help the women liaison with each other and with members of IWEI’s Experts Panel.
- Pamela Coffey Curtin
Senior Technical Advisor, Development Alternatives Inc.
- Expertise in women's human rights, international development, technical advice to NGOs and youth training.
- Isabelle M. Bleas
Senior Operations Officer, Gender Coordinator, World Bank Institute
- Expertise on gender issues, international organizations, and development in Iraq.
- Anne Trenelone
Public Policy Manager, FINCA International
- Expertise in microfinance, small business generation, and served as public affairs advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Health (2003-2004).
- Neveen Abel-Jalil
Patent Examiner/Trainer-Database Technology, US Patent and Trademark Office
- Expertise in intellectual property, engineering systems, and database technology.
- Patty Friedman
Director of Women's Advocacy for Iraq, America's Development Foundation
- Expertise in women's human rights and international development
- Martha H. Hutto
CFO and Vice President of Administration
Independent Women's Forum
- Expertise in accounting and Finance
The Women’s Leadership Program Expert Advisory Panel
The experts below were available to help the participants in the Women's Leadership Program learn about issues such as which electoral systems would benefit women; how Iraqi women should lobby to be nominated in significant numbers in party lists; and how to secure women's rights and basic individual freedoms in the permanent constitution of Iraq. The program coordinator helped the participants communicate with the advisory panel via surveys and e-mail.
Carole Basri
Adjunct Professor of Corporate Law, the University of Pennsylvania School of Law
Expert on corruption.
Dr. Amy Chua
Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Expert on law, development and globalization; democratization and ethnic conflict.
Haleh Esfandiari
Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson Center
Expert on the women's movement in Iran; Former Deputy Secretary General of the Women's Organization of Iran
Dr. Hisham al-Jazairy (no online bio)
Dean of the University of Basra School of Law
Expert on constitutionalism and women legal issues.
Dr. Jo Kwong
Director of Institute Relations, Atlas Economic Research Foundation
Expert on free market economies and democracy, globalization and women.
Dr. Richard Matland
Professor of Political Science, University of Houston
Expert on elections, political parties, and how differing institutions can affect women's ability to gain political representation. |
