Looking at the world through the Gender Lens.
Portfolio
Professional Summary
I am a freelance gender specialist with over ten years experience providing policy and programming advice specifically around labour migration and the world of work. Having originally trained and practiced as a solicitor in the UK, I now regularly provide technical, gender-responsive support to UN and international development agencies including UN Women, the ILO, IOM and UNOPS.
Specialism & Expertise
Gender responsive policy and programming
Developing the Gender Strategy for the ILO’s Better Work Bangladesh programme.
Producing three policy briefs, and facilitating the Regional Dialogue, on empowering women migrant workers from South Asia, through gender-responsive employment and recruitment practices.
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Legal analysis and technical support to the Spotlight Initiative’s study, Listening to the voices of women migrant workers: Gender mainstreaming in the draft law on Vietnamese Workers Working Abroad under Contract.
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Research into the gendered inputs of COVID-19 on migrant resilience across the Asia Pacific region for USAID via Integra.
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Study on the impact of protective policies for Myanmar Migrant Domestic Workers in Thailand and Singapore for the Government of Myanmar Ministry of Labour Immigration and Population and UN Women.
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Providing programme support to UN Women’s global programme to protect and empower women migrant workers, including producing technical briefs and researched reports on gender responsive migration governance.
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Author of the Gender & Migration Module of the updated version of the Essentials of Migration Management.
Programme Design
Formulation of multi-stakeholder programme on internal migration of women into peri-urban spaces for UNOPS Myanmar.
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Finalising the formulation and gender responsiveness of an SDC supported joint ILO, IOM and UN Women programme on migration from South and Southeast Asia.
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Formulation of a regional programme focused on migrants in fishing in Southeast Asia for EuropeAid.
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Design and development of an EU funded, EUR25.5million, ten country, joint ILO and UN Women project to strengthen safe and fair labour migration for women across ASEAN.
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Technical support on a successful proposal for USD$20million for a ten-year migration project in ASEAN.
Programme Evaluation
Final evaluation of UNOPS Myanmar LIFT funded trafficking protection programme.
Final evaluation of UNOPS Myanmar LIFT funded migration programme.
Final evaluation of ILO Malaysia project on protecting the rights of migrants in domestic work and in the plantation sector.
Tools
Developing guidelines for employers of migrant workers during COVID-19.
Developing requirements for employers to repay migrant worker fees and costs for the IOM.
Publications
Holliday, J. (2020) “Incongruous Objectives – Endeavouring to Realise Women Migrant Workers’ Rights through the Global Development Agenda”, International Journal of Law in Context.
Holliday, J. Hennebry, J. and Gammage, S. (2018) “Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Surfacing the Role for a Gender Analytic of Migration”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1456720
Elias, J. and Holliday, J. (2018) “Who gets ‘left behind’?: Promises and Pitfalls in Making the Global Development Agenda Work for Sex Workers – Reflections from Southeast Asia”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1456747
Holliday, J. (2018) “Myanmar domestic workers - driving development at home and abroad - Study on the impact of protective policies for Myanmar Migrant Domestic Workers in Thailand and Singapore”, Government of Myanmar Ministry of Labour Immigration and Population and UN Women.
Hennebry, J. Holliday, J. and Moniruzzaman, M. (2017) “At What Cost? Women Migrant Workers, Remittances and Development”, UN Women.
Holliday, J. (2015) “Women migrant workers in ASEAN: Policy Brief Series”, UN Women and ILO.