Jo Feather is Associate Director and Principal Consultant in the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Portfolio. She has been working in gender and social development for 20+ years specifically on violence against women and girls, adolescent girls, sexual and reproductive health and rights, safeguarding and social norms programming. She is an experienced team leader, trainer and facilitator, modelling inclusive, feminist and participatory approaches and has significant experience working with a wide range of stakeholders from women’s rights organisations, NGOs, Government Ministries, Development Partners and the Private Sector across different contexts.
Jo provides research, evaluation and technical support to a range of programmes, and has held a number of roles providing long term technical advisory support to FCDO-funded GBV prevention and social norms change programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. She co-led the Evidence pillar on the FCDO’s Safeguarding Resource and Support Hub (RSH) where she co-authored a Global Evidence Review of SEAH in the Aid Sector, and contributes research and advice support to the Ending Violence Against Women and Children’s helpdesk. Jo has been team leader on a number of multi-country evaluations for clients including Spotlight Initiative, UNICEF, WHO and UNAIDS.
Prior to joining SDDirect, Jo worked both as an independent consultant and in senior staff positions for a range of civil society and private sector organisations, including Save the Children, the Girl Effect, GEC and Action Aid.
