Cica Mathilda DADJO

• Lead development and implementation of IRC's organization-wide vision, strategy, and delivery to evolve IRC into a fully feminist organization
• Designed and launched IRC's Gender Equality Diversity and Inclusion Unit, working across programs, operations, and external relations to support the delivery of organizational feminist commitment in 40 countries across Africa, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and North America serving 25000 + staff
• Achieved progress in Senior leadership group diversity by increasing the representation of women, staff from underrepresented race and ethnicity and staff nationals from global south countries by 8, 15 and 9 points in 2 years
• Introduce gender equality and inclusion program quality standards and launched the Gender equality Diversity and Inclusion marker as key tool to strengthen program quality from and intersectional feminist lens
• Launched women's mentorship program, designed and launched global Gender equality Diversity and inclusion learning strategy
• Position the IRC as thought leader on gender equality, diversity, and inclusion in the humanitarian sector through external engagement with stakeholders
• I work with Leadership board to Ensure IRC Equality value is centered in all IRC business decision, policies, and core organizational practices

• Assembled and managed a global team working with Leadership board, with staff, and key internal and external stakeholders to develop and execute a plan that enhances Diversity equality and inclusion at the IRC
• Lead on development and release of six workstream research and learning reports identifying key challenges, opportunities, and recommendations that formed the basis for defining the goals and objectives of the DEI strategy
• Deliver global DEI strategy defining IRC vision, goals, and priority milestones rooted in the principle of intersectional feminism, decoloniality and antiracism
• Developed leadership Diversity goals for gender race and national origin representation
• Set a strong staff engagement mechanism across the organization ensuring all voices, particularly the most marginalized ones, are heard and reflected in the IRC DEI work, building on the feminist principles of social inclusion, transparency, and two-way accountability
• Successful delivery for global DEI initiatives: DEI Lexicon, employee
• Demographic survey, development of respect at work policy.

• Deliver on IRC gender Equality ambition across 9 countries in west Africa with more than 2000 staff
• Manage a network of 50 GEDI champion and 30+ chapters of Women at
• Work – W@W groups with more than 1000 members
• Spearheaded improvements on travel, parental leave policy and building workplace infrastructure to better accommodate the needs of women workers
• Support business development for multimillion-dollar programs centered on women & girls’ empowerment in education, health and economic development
• Introduce critical reflection on the IRC approach to gender equality & feminism and foster an intersectional and postcolonial understanding of feminism within the Gender Equality Unit.

Lead organizational strategy development for INGO (CARE International Freedom from Hunger, Mercy corps, Intergovernmental organization) ; European Union and UN agencies (UNDP, UN Women, IFAD, UNICEF) and donors agencies ( USAID, MCA)

• Gender integration to Benin Private sector health partnership activity ENCOMPASS-USAID
• Development of Off-Grid Clean Energy Facility Gender and Social Inclusion Plan and technical assistance for gender and social inclusion in the awarded projects, (40 M US$ MCA)
• Gender inclusion in the National Indicative Program (PIN) (372 M Euro); implementation and reporting of EU gender action plan for members countries (EU delegation, )
• Formulation of "Programme d'appui au Développement des filières agricoles" Cameroun- Gender transformative and inclusive development of agricultural value chains (57.6 M US$- IFAD- 2018) –
• Program Formulation for USAID solicitation for Food assistance project, (60M US$) Mercy corps/World Vision, democratic republic of Congo, 2016)
• Gender audit and Development of National gender strategy and action plan - Benin ministry of health for gender Mainstreaming
• Elaboration of country gender profile (Benin), 2015
• Country office gender review; development of gender equality action plan; staff training on the use of gender equality marker; UNICEF Madagascar

• Lead program strategy review and development of Care International
• Cameroun new program strategy, and deign of new operational model, including development and transition to the new structure, refine and recruit for key functions
• Successfully transition the country office structure to the new operating model, reconfiguration of program team and establishment of coordination, performance monitoring and accountability mechanism
• Achieve 20% budget increase of program portfolio through business development and fundraising and launch new program offices
• Ensure technical and financial accountability to program participants, partners, and donors; Knowledge management; Oversight of M&E, coordination of reporting on program performance and impact
• Successfully close out multiyear humanitarian response program and transition to early recovery programming in East and Far North of
• Cameroun

• Benin Togo
• Management of two (02) multi-country women's and girl’s empowerment program initiatives (girl education and women's land access & economic empowerment)
• Country Gender taskforce leader and focal point for the Emergency response team
• Coordination of country office gender and diversity audits, action plan development, monitoring, and reporting of progress

• Netherland Development Organization, SNV - BENIN
• Coordination of girl's education program in north Benin
• Elaboration of Governance for Empowerment strategy
• Gender capacity building for staff and partners organization
• Contribution to the development of corporate gender tools
• Coordinating gender and social inclusion studies and research in various sectors (cotton, wash, livestock, education, renewable energy).

• Migration for Development Program in Africa (BENIN Government)