Emily Malcolm

• Strategic leadership and management experience, supporting strategic reviews and development, and overseeing management of programme teams.
  
  
• Programme management and Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) knowledge and experience through creating standardised frameworks across projects and organisations, with a focus on adaptive management, participatory approaches, lived experience engagement, and learning.
  
  
• Partnership development to support collaboration and capacity building.
  
  
• Practitioner experience used to support policy development or practical implementation through evidence, such as speaking at an All-Party Parliamentary Group on Immigration Detention about an alternative to detention project, and at the International Summit on Legal Rights of Street Children & Youth to develop implementation measures on prevention for the UN General Comment on Children in Street Situations.

Emily is working part-time at BIHR and is also working at a charity she founded called Hope after Cancer, and is a certified Trauma-informed yoga teacher.

Prior to working at BIHR, Emily was Head of Client Services at a charity supporting people seeking asylum and refuge across the Northeast of England. Emily used to work internationally through MEAL and rights-based programme management to support children living and working on the streets across Africa and Asia, and also worked in Ghana working with local partners to oversee projects focused on education, livelihoods, reproductive health, and disability rights. Emily has also worked at UNHCR in Geneva supporting the Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) Cluster especially with Information Management in level 3 emergencies, and the UN System Staff College in Turin, Italy, as part of the Development, Gender, and Human Rights Team supporting courses such as the Human Rights Based Approach.

Emily holds a Master in Global Politics & Law (distinction), including receiving a Best Dissertation Award for her published thesis on the effect of host-country citizenship on the occupational status of children of third country national immigrants in Italy.