Jeanne Ward

Jeanne Ward is an internationally recognised expert on Violence Against Women (VAW) and Protection against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA). She provides technical leadership, training, assessment and evaluation support to UN agencies, INGOs, NGOs/Community Based Organisations (CBOs) and government partners in developing and improving VAW-related research, policies, systems, and programmes, as well as in improving institutional and system-wide capacity to address SEA.

Jeanne is currently based in the United States after spending over 15 years overseas, and having consulted to over 30 countries around the world. She is the author of numerous publications on VAW, and has developed globally disseminated tools and guidelines. For example, she led the revisions to the 2005 global guidelines on Gender-based Violence (GBV) for humanitarian settings (2015); drafted a comprehensive web tool for UN Women on designing, implementing and monitoring VAWG programming in humanitarian settings (2012); and wrote the first-ever comprehensive guidelines on coordinating GBV in humanitarian settings (2010). She was also responsible for developing the first global PSEA training tools for managers and focal points. She has taught at Smith College, Columbia University and University College Dublin.