

An Independent Advisory Board Board (IAB) for the What Works 2 programme provides high level strategic advice and review on program implementation, quality assurance including independent oversight in selection of grantees. As leaders in the VAWG and gender justice fields, IAB members also champion the progamme externally and help identify and utilise opportunities and strategies for using its evidence to influence policy, practice, and investments.
Comprising of representation from all Consortium partners to promote equal access to decision-making and ensure we leverage the advantages and skillsets of each organisation, the Programme Management Unit (PMU) drives the delivery of the programme and ensures operational excellence in day-to-day management and upholds the Consortium’s shared, feminist programme principles, which are the basis for all design, planning, implementation and learning in the Programme, including our management and organisational structures, our programmatic priorities, and our ways of working.
The Programme Management Team comprises of staff from the Research Consortium’s core partners and is responsible for leading the day-to-day functioning of the consortium and its diverse workforce as well as providing oversight, technical leadership and financial and contract management for the consortium, the Working Groups and to the research partners.The Research Consortium’s Programme Management Team will coordinate closely with the Implementation Consortium.