Mireia Cano

Country Experience: Burundi, Colombia, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, Guatemala, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Mali, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Rwanda, Senegal, Thailand.

Mireia is an independent consultant working with UN agencies and International and Norwegian NGOs on gender equality in the humanitarian development peace nexus.

Mireia has led several programme evaluations, including women’s cross-border trade in Eastern DRC and a study on Colombian refugee women’s access to housing, land and property rights in Panama. She has worked as gender advisor to the Colombian peace process with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mireia has also developed gender policies and strategies for the World Food Programme, UNICEF, the UN Industrial Development Organization, the UN Economic Commission for Africa, Action Against Hunger and The Rainforest Foundation Norway.

Mireia has led participatory gender audits with the International Criminal Court in the Hague, facilitated gender trainings for the European Directorate for Humanitarian Aid and coached staff at the Norwegian National Centre of Human Rights.

Mireia holds an MSc in International Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies in the UK, and an MA in Refugee Studies from the University of East London. She speaks English, Spanish and French.