MARIAN NWAOKOLO

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the design, planning, and implementation of strategic programs that empower girls, young women, and other vulnerable groups.
• Oversee program execution of the Girl Impact Project, to promote educational access, skill development, and advocacy for gender equality in education.
• Develop and manage policies to uphold ethical standards and safeguard the wellbeing of the community.
• Conduct trainings and workshops for relevant stakeholders focusing on intersectional issues and grassroots accessibility.
• Collaborate with regional networks, stakeholders, and policymakers to expand organisation's impact and advocate for structural changes in education policy.
• Lead program evaluation and reporting efforts, to enhance program impact across socioeconomic and health domains.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Facilitate FRIDA’s annual participatory grantmaking process by conducting outreach, screening applications, reviewing final results, supporting with due diligence.
• Support grantee partner capacity strengthening and communication of regional strategic priorities with FRIDA
• Inform strategic and programmatic decisions in various areas of FRIDA’s organizational mission through thematic and expert input.
• Inform FRIDA’s strategic direction every 5 years
• Create and keep regional and global spaces for feminist solidarity and collective care.

ISDAO is an activist-led fund dedicated to building a West African movement that advocates for sexual diversity and sexual rights through a flexible approach to grantmaking and strengthening a culture of philanthropy committed to promoting human rights and social justice.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate actively in the review and scoring of the proposals, including but not limited to participating in in-person and virtual meetings to discuss and make decisions about funding by ISDAO.
• Share knowledge about current issues, concerns, opportunities, and priorities within the LGBTQI+ movements in the focal countries and regionally.
• Share knowledge and skills with other panel members and ISDAO staff in order to ensure effective decision-making on proposals.
• Devote time to the proposal review process and provide assistance and special technical advice.
• Commit to and strictly comply with the provisions of the conflict of interest and Confidentiality
  agreement required with respect to the activities of the panel.
• Follow ISDAO’s principles in all decision-making processes.

NGỌỌ Consultants is dedicated to spurring social change through knowledge management. It aims to intersectionalize identities and dehomogenize diverse experiences through feminist principles, research, and capacity development (including workshop facilitation, proposal writing, the analysis of policy contexts, awareness building, institutional adjustments, policy research, and more)

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop associates through coaching performance, completing performance reviews, goal setting and development planning
• Design curricula as a subject matter expert, develop assessments, activities and participant materials
• Develop training goals and training evaluation to ensure effectiveness of programs
• Diversity and programming consultant for NGOs
• Researcher

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate actively in the review and scoring of the proposals, including but not limited to participating in in-person and virtual meetings to discuss and make decisions about funding by ISDAO.
• Share knowledge about current issues, concerns, opportunities, and priorities within the LGBTQI+, PWUD and Sex Workers movements in Nigeria.
• Share knowledge and skills with other panel members and ISDAO staff in order to ensure effective decision-making on proposals.
• Devote time to the proposal review process and provide assistance and special technical advice.
• Commit to and strictly comply with the provisions of the conflict of interest and Confidentiality
  agreement required with respect to the activities of the panel.
• Follow ISDAO’s principles in all decision-making processes.

Women Initiative for Sustainable Empowerment and Equality (WISE), a lesbian led organization in Northern Nigeria, aims to provide support, strengthen the capacity of sexual and gender minority womxn as well as create safe spaces for them to cushion the impact of religious and cultural fundamentalism.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Worked closely with the director of programs to plan and execute human rights programming
• Built policy capacity of the office and advised on project implementation.
• Took lead in strategy, planning, development and implementation of communication campaigns and programs.
• Initiated and facilitated training sessions and capacity building activities for stakeholders, policy makers, women, and members of the LGBTQI+ community.
• Developed strategic partnership with sister organizations.
• Prepared proposals, reports, and applied for grants.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Filmed and directed a photo-documentary to document the exclusion of northern LBT+ womxn from mainstream Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) organizing and LGBTQI SRHR organizing.
• Steered recruitment processes and hired full time staff and contractors committed to the goals of the organization.
• Diversified organization’s strategic planning to ensure organizational financial sustainability and accountability.
• Led major fundraising efforts that secured funds, attracted several grant-makers to the work at WISE, and enabled WISE to move office to a bigger and safer space.
• Formed a sub-regional coalition to tackle erasure and invisibility of violence against marginalized/minority women through research and documentation
• With the team, conducted a research in Kano to ascertain whether increased visibility in political and civil participation can serve as a tool to combat exclusion and entrench the rights of LBT+ people in Nigeria. This informed the engagements with religious heads, and the political participation trainings I conducted for LBT+ womxn, some of who are now active politicians in the north.
• Engaged traditional media to build allyship committed to sensitive reporting of LGBTQI+ identities
• Engaged religious and traditional leaders in the north on the rights of LBQTI+ womxn; a context notorious for cultural and religious syncretism that jeopardize the safety of womxn human rights defenders.

The Rustin Times aims to change the narrative surrounding issues about the LGBTQI+ community.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Developed strategic partnerships within the greater LGBTQI+ community and community-based organizations working in diverse communities.
• Worked closely with the communication team to create advocacy content for all social media platforms.
• Designed and oversaw outreach plans that connect LGBTQI+ community members who don’t regularly utilize LGBTQI-centered facilities.

The Initiative for Equal Rights focuses on promoting the health and rights of LGBTQI+ persons through engagement with the national, regional and international human rights mechanisms.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Worked closely with the director of human rights and advocacy department to execute human rights programming
• Prepared proposals, reports, briefings and other such publications for gender and human rights programming
• Liaised with internal and external teams to plan, execute and monitor advocacy projects
• Provided advisory on gender minority and human rights issues.
• Facilitated training sessions and other capacity building activities
• Monitored key developments in relation to human rights violations experienced by gender minority
  persons.
• Prepared digital contents on human rights and gender quality.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Coordinated a 40-person feminist pre-conference in Abuja, Nigeria as part of the Beijing +25 conference/64th Commission on the Status of Women. Came up with a conference position paper that was inclusive of LBQTI+ womxn issues and endorsed by all mainstream women’s rights groups present at the feminist pre-conference. This was sent to the ministry for women affairs.
• Conducted baseline research documenting inclusion /exclusion of LBQTI womxn’s issues to reveal existent gaps and guide future movement building and synergies.
• Commenced holistic research into violence against women in Nigeria that is inclusive of LBQ womxn, FSW and WWD

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leveraged full field of optometric instruments and equipment to determine patient visual acuity, amplitude of accommodation and refractive state.
• Performed ophthalmology research and stayed abreast of new developments to treat eye disorders.
• Interviewed and examined patients with full range of vision problems and consulted medical charts to assist with diagnosis.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leveraged full field of optometric instruments and equipment to determine patient visual acuity, amplitude of accommodation and refractive state.
• Interviewed and examined patients with full range of vision problems and consulted medical charts to assist with diagnosis.
• Calculated proper prescription employing formulas for single corrective lenses, contact lenses, prisms, aniseikonia and aphakic lenses.