Projects and Consultancy
Helen Liebling is a violence against women and girls expert with over 25 years’ experience in carrying out qualitative, participatory and feminist research, provision of psychological therapies and training who provides gender consultancy in conflict, post-conflict and humanitarian settings. She has excellent knowledge of ethical and practical issues in designing projects, data collection, data analysis and reporting to effect policy change; particularly in Uganda, Liberia and eastern DRC. Having helped establish and run the clinical psychology Masters Programme at Makerere University in Uganda. She has been carrying out funded research with survivors of sexual and gender-based violence and torture in non-conflict, conflict and post-conflict settings since 1998 in the UK and throughout Africa.
Helen was invited by UN Women, World Health Organization and the Sexual Violence Research Initiative, as a member of an expert panel to plan and implement a five year international research agenda on sexual and gender-based violence in humanitarian, conflict and post-conflict settings. Helen has recently carried out projects in the following Countries: Democratic Republic of Congo (establishing support systems for health care staff), Liberia (training and manual development to increase the capacity of treatment for war survivors), Rwanda (applied research on trauma counselling), Southern Sudan (evaluation of training), South Africa (applied research), Uganda (development of a model for trauma counselling services and evaluation), and United Kingdom (refugee and asylum seekers). Helen is an Associate consultant with Social Development Direct, WISE Development and works closely with Women Regional Network East Africa, WRNEA.
Helen is able to offer expertise in the above and following areas:
- Carrying out funded applied qualitative and feminist research with women and girl survivors of conflict and post-conflict sexual and gender-based violence and torture.
- Organisation and delivery of staff training and supervision in conflict, humanitarian settings and fragile states; development of trauma specialist services and psychological therapies for women and girl survivors of SGBV and provision of training to increase in-country capacity for medical and psychological treatment of survivors of SGBV and torture.
- Development of policy documents.
- Sexual and gender-based violence in programme delivery, service provision, training, monitoring and evaluation.
