Sonia Herrero

Independent human rights consultant with a focus on torture prevention, democracy promotion, international justice, gender issues and the European Union. Delivery of training courses in fields such as project management, proposal drafting, advocacy skills, training of trainers. Research and drafting reports, facilitation of workshops, capacity building for civil society organisations, monitoring and evaluation, support with identification of EU funding programmes, proposal writing. Evaluation and monitoring

Monitored and analyzed EU policies and financial instruments in the fields of human rights, development, and conflict prevention. Designed and conducted ICTJ’s EU advocacy strategy. Designed a country program for transitional justice related work in Spain. Development of the strategy for the organisation of a workshop with EU officials and NGOs on international justice. Designed and spearheaded an EC fundraising strategy including the provision of proposal drafting training to staff and the drafting of prop

Monitored and analyzed EU policies and financial instruments in the fields of human rights, development, and conflict prevention. Designed and conducted ICTJ’s EU advocacy strategy. Designed a country program for transitional justice related work in Spain. Development of the strategy for the organisation of a workshop with EU officials and NGOs on international justice. Designed and spearheaded an EC fundraising strategy including the provision of proposal drafting training to staff and the drafting of prop

Led a team of 8 evaluators that carried out an evaluation of 10 human rights EC-funded projects on behalf of the European Commission, Europeaid.

Policy analysis, research, and provision of legal advice on European Union policies in the field of human rights and refugees/asylum seekers/migration. Policy and advocacy work in order to ensure the correct application of the Geneva Conventions and EC asylum directives Designed and led training sessions for numerous grassroots organisations in the areas of EU advocacy, capacity building, proposal drafting, fundraising, and project management.

Managed an extensive portfolio of more than 40 EC-funded human rights projects in the fields of racisms, discrimination, women’s rights, gender, political rights, torture prevention and rehabilitation, international justice, and good governance. Conducted programatic identification missions to various countries in order to define the European Commission’s human rights policy in those countries. Appraised and selected project proposals submitted by NGOs under call for proposals. Monitored and evaluated num

Managed an extensive portfolio of EC-funded social community-based projects in Eastern European and CIS countries. Appraised and selected project proposals on behalf of the EC. Monitored and evaluated numerous projects