Najah Almugahed

Najah is the inclusion and protection, gender advisor for Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), where she works on mainstreaming gender across IRW’s offices around the globe. Over the past 3 years Najah has participated in drawing a strategic direction for inclusion and protection that meets organisational commitments globally. She coordinates and liaises with different organisational departments and country offices to ensure gender and gender-based violence response and prevention is at the core of IRW’s programmes in both humanitarian and development contexts. She works on providing remote technical support as well as field on the job training, and building the capacity of staff on gender justice, inclusion and protection and gender based violence. Her work within IRW is influenced by the faith-based nature of the organisation, and is derived from the universal sectorial standards and approaches. Najah is also co-chairing Violence Against Women and Girls (VAW/G) working group in the Gender and development network, which brings together UK based NGOs working with partners worldwide towards gender equality. Previously, Najah worked on Women’s Economic Empowerment through,micro-financing in Yemen leading the national network for microfinance institutions. She holds a MSc degree in Development Administration and Planning from UCL, focusing her thesis on faith-based organisations approaches to respond to gender-based violence.