Partners
Jakob Kirkemann Boesen
Managing Director & 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 Kirkemann Boesen is a Partner and current Managing Director at NCG Denmark. He is an experienced manager and team leader and combines senior leadership experience from ActionAid Denmark and the Danish Institute for Human Rights with extensive consulting experience in programme formulation, appraisal, review and learning processes for bilateral donors, multilaterals and civil society organisations.
Jakob has more than 20 years of experience working with human rights, democratisation, civil society and governance. He has particular expertise in civic space and the right to participation, including freedom of expression, association and assembly, state and civil society dialogue, and support to civil society partnerships and local leadership. In recent years, he has worked extensively with strategy and programme design, organisational reviews, calls for proposals and assessment processes, and funding modalities for democracy, human rights and civil society support, including in digital civic space.
He has worked with civil society organisations, international organisations, state institutions and national human rights institutions in more than 30 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He has also authored and co-authored publications on human rights-based approaches and civil society partnerships.
Core Areas
Human rights and human rights-based approaches
Democracy and civic space
Digital civic space and digital democracy
Democratic governance, public participation and accountability
Civil society and locally led partnerships
National human rights institutions and independent governance institutions
State and civil society dialogue
Youth engagement, movements and informal civil society actors
Nexus, conflict sensitivity, inclusion, and non-discrimination
Expertise and Services
Leadership and general management
Programme scoping, contextual analysis, and learning studies
Strategy and programme formulation
Appraisal and quality assurance
Programme/organisational review and monitoring
Calls for proposals, assessment criteria and selection processes
Civil society partnership design, localisation and local leadership
Organisational development and capacity assessment
Process facilitation, workshops and multi-stakeholder dialogue
