Partners
Jakob Kirkemann Boesen
Partner
Country Experience
Asia and the Pacific: Bangladesh, Myanmar, Cambodia, India, China, Nepal & Timor-Leste.
Europe and Eurasia: Bosnia, Croatia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine.
Middle East and North Africa: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Tunisia, Yemen.
Sub-Saharan Africa: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Niger, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Languages
English: Fluent
Danish: Native
Jakob is a senior international expert with extensive leadership and practical experience in human rights, civil society, democratization, and governance. He has held leadership positions in ActionAid Denmark and the Danish Institute for Human Rights, and has a solid foundation in international development partnerships, programming and management.
Jakob has more than 20 years of experience working in partnerships focused on human rights, democratisation and public participation, civil society, and good governance in Europe, Asia, and Africa. His core expertise includes support to network and alliance building, human rights based approaches, movement building, strengthening of independent governance institutions and state and civil society dialogue. He has supported both state institutions, international organisations, and civil society organisations with governance, strategy formulation, programme management, learning, capacity building, partnership development, funding mechanisms, review and learning.
He has authored and co-authored publications on human rights-based approaches and civil society partnerships.
Core Areas
Freedom Rights including freedom of speech, assembly and association
Democratisation, democratic governance and public participation
Civil society, public participation and cooperation between state and non-state actors
Civil society as an actor in democratization and development
Engagement of youth, movements and informal civil society actors
National Human Rights and Ombudsman Institutions
Human rights-based approach (HRBA), gender mainstreaming, equal treatment and non-discrimination
Humanitarian partnerships and localisation
Civil Society and Development Partnerships
Organisational development and capacity-building
Expertise and Services
Leadership and general management
Strategic planning and development
Organisational assessment and audits
Organisational coaching and capacity development
Programme scoping, situational and contextual analysis
Programme formulation, implementation, monitoring, review and evaluation
Partnership identificaition, development & management
Process and programme management, facilitation and support
Course/seminar/workshop design, facilitation and evaluation
Development of learning and review processes
Development of organisational or programmatic approaches, systems and guidelines
