Suzy Madigan
Role: Senior Humanitarian Advisor specialising in Gender and Protection
Profile:
Suzy Madigan is CARE International UK’s Senior Humanitarian Advisor specialising in Gender and Protection and regularly deploys to emergencies worldwide to support CARE teams. As part of the Emergency Team deployed to the Beirut Explosion and Covid-19 response she led on the Beirut Rapid Gender Analysis for CARE. She’s currently acting as Regional Gender in Emergencies and Protection Advisor for Middle East, North Africa and the Caucasus.
Recent fieldwork includes support to DRC and South Sudan refugee operations in Uganda; operational recommendations for gender and conflict dynamics in cyclone-hit Mozambique, and research into women’s economic empowerment in fragile and conflict-affected settings such as Syria, OPT and Niger. She was previously an advisor within CARE’s Policy and Advocacy Team on humanitarian and conflict issues.
Prior to joining CARE, she worked in programming for the United Nations and NGOs. She led a protection response in Northern Iraq within the combined Syrian refugee and Islamic State crisis, and has worked on gang violence with the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti; the reintegration of armed groups including the FARC and paramilitaries in Colombia with the Colombian Government, and reconciliation among ethnic groups in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
She has written for The Independent, Huffington Post, Overseas Development Institute and Thomson Reuters.
Email: madigan@careinternational.org
Twitter: @suzy_madigan
Blog posts
A rapid gender analysis of the August 2020 Beirut explosion
Tuesday, 27 October 2020 17:43On August 4 2020, the devastating Beirut explosion shook the whole city to its core, taking the lives of 191 persons (120 males, 58 females, and 13 unspecified), wounding at least 6,500, and leaving 300,000 people displaced. The impact of the
Women affected by disasters often face the greatest protection risks – they need to be part of the solution
Friday, 30 November 2018 11:21From Cox’s Bazaar to Kinshasa, women are not passive beneficiaries of assistance. Women responders – volunteers,
International aid and the Conservatives: What did we learn at the Party Conference?
Friday, 06 October 2017 15:17A six foot badger wanders among dozens of undistracted police holding a placard, “I am innocent”. Security is called to disperse a furious mob of septuagenarians barred entry from a sell-out Brexit event where Conservative Party darling,
Inside conflict: What does research reveal about women’s rights and changing gender roles in Yemen?
Monday, 24 July 2017 14:54Until the acceleration of violence in 2015, women in Yemen were making some headway in challenging a system that largely excludes them from public life. But since 2015, war has impacted not only on their security and health, but also on the
Against the odds, women are making political progress in Somalia
Wednesday, 10 May 2017 13:12As the international community gathers for the London Somalia Conference, the role of women in determining the country’s future is high on the agenda. So what are Somali women saying about women’s political participation in their
