Strategic litigation | social justice | human rights
Photo: Mohamed Badarne
Nani is available for selected consultancy projects. Please see below for an overview of the type of work you can engage her for. If you are interested in working together, please get in touch.
What I offer
Advisory work
- Critically reviewing organisational and programmatic strategies, action plans, grantmaking programmes, litigation strategies, etc., through a lens of human rights, digital rights, racial/social/economic justice, climate justice, power dynamics, and marginalised communities’ needs.
- Formulating improvements to grantmaking strategies and processes to identify and remedy gaps and better serve grantee needs.
- Support the making of strategic funding decisions.
Stakeholder engagement
- Designing and running accessible and inclusive consultations, needs assessments, and strategy processes.
- Designing accessible, collaborative, participatory, and generative convenings. (I don’t facilitate gatherings but can help select the right facilitators as well as guide and support them.)
Strategy and design
- Distilling a strategic plan/strategy from the raw data yielded by the various components of a strategy consultation process.
- Designing strategy at case/programme/project level, as well as for a constellation of actors or a whole field.
- Turning strategy into reality: creating blueprints to build new projects/initiatives needed to operationalise a strategy. All my strategic design work is done in a values-aligned way, balancing formal compliance requirements with the real-life demands of social change work.
Photo: Mohamed Badarne
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Experience
Over the past 10 years, I have built two organisations from scratch and designed and developed multiple international social justice and human rights projects. These include Systemic Justice, the Digital Freedom Fund (including a decolonising digital rights process that led to the independent Weaving Liberation project), as well as initiating the PACE Index, and many more initiatives behind the scenes.
This work has included designing and running strategy processes and decolonising work, building systems and processes, engaging with a wide variety of stakeholders, developing governance models, and navigating compliance requirements through an anti-oppression lens. I have built and led international organisations and projects that are all successfully running until this day. In this context, I have learned how communities work and how to ensure their needs are met.
I have worked as a funder (in a re-granting capacity), led on decolonising the grantmaking within my own organisation (the Digital Freedom Fund), and headed conversations about this in funder spaces and networks. I have also been part of a wide variety of funder advisory bodies, grant making committees, and in the assessment of funding applications for collaborative funds.
I have worked as both a corporate and human rights lawyer, engaged in both legal advisory and litigation work and have led on several standard-setting cases in Europe and globally. This has given me experience of not only operating in commercial/business/funding spaces, but also working with local communities and in the context of grassroots work and activism. As a result, I can operate across a broad range of settings and effectively communicate with a wide range of stakeholders.