Solveig Als

• Provided strategic advice and coordination for global advocacy efforts at Danish Refugee Council. • Supported leadership in external engagements, including speeches, talking points and panel debates. • Translated operational data into policy recommendations and collaborated with academia and civil society for impactful dissemination. • Supported alignment between global press and advocacy engagement efforts.

• Provided strategic advice and coordination for DRC's global advocacy efforts, focusing on EU policy engagement. • Supported senior management in external engagements, including events, conferences, and bilateral meetings. • Translated data and analysis into policy recommendations, coordinated research projects, and disseminated results to policymakers.

• Provided technical guidance and capacity building to ensure compliance with EU donor requirements. • Engaged in donor relations and policy advocacy on funding and framework agreements. • Coordinated cross-organizational advocacy related to the European refugee situation in 2015-2016. • Supported the opening of the DRC Global Representation in Brussels, prioritizing relevant EU political agendas.

Conducting evaluation of the Kosovo Return Assistance Programme – a programme facilitating sustainable return to Kosovo and the reintegration of rejected asylum seekers. • Developing evaluation design and targeted interview guides • Undertaking two months fieldwork in Kosovo, conducting more than 30 interviews with returnees, partners and stakeholders • Data analysis, reporting and identification of recommendations

Led strategic regional meetings and annual program reviews, fostering collaboration between HQ and field management. • Coordinated successful fundraising efforts, resulting in project funding and support from donors. • Monitored project implementation and expenditures, conducting regular field visits to ensure program success.

• Managed project for IDP Profiling in Serbia and Kosovo, overseeing methodology development, interagency collaboration, and budget monitoring. • Facilitated Regional Project for IDP/DP Associations, ensuring donor compliance and conducting organizational self-assessments. • Led impact monitoring and evaluation efforts, including Gender Needs analysis and presentation of tailor-made IM Guidelines.

• Responsible for the development, organizing and coordination of a study trip for vocational teachers from Africa and Central America; • Establishment of contacts with relevant institutions and organizations countrywide, as well as follow up and informational meetings with a view to future cooperation; • Responsible for budgets and accounts, preparation and conduction of evaluation and reporting.

• Project development, organizing, coordination and management as well as cooperation with a long range of educational and cultural institutions countrywide; • Responsible for budget monitoring and accounts as well as evaluation and reporting; • Process facilitation, coordination and supervision of a large group of volunteers and facilitation of a multiethnic working group.

• Reconciliation among youth in the Balkans – facilitating the development of the youth department of the Centre – project development, coordination and process facilitation and supervision; • Insight into the reconciliation work, the post-war situation and the handling of internally displaced and the human rights problems in the region in general.