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Jara Henar

Jara Henar

Director, ActionAid Eastern Europe

Jara Henar is a senior humanitarian and policy professional with extensive experience in Ukraine, Eastern Europe and EU-level advocacy. As Director of ActionAid Eastern Europe, she leads humanitarian and recovery programming, strategic partnerships, donor engagement and organisational development. Her expertise spans localisation, protection, migration, humanitarian policy and feminist approaches to crisis response, with a strong focus on women’s rights, GBV, Women, Peace and Security, and women’s and young people’s leadership. She works to connect evidence and experience from local organisations, in particular women’s rights organisations and women-led organisations, with humanitarian policy, funding and decision-making, advocating for more equitable partnerships, locally led responses and meaningful shifts in power within the humanitarian system.

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