ABOUT US
Praxis Labs is a collective of humanitarian practitioners and project managers in international development with a varied background in research, law, migration, education, gender and child protection, environment, sustainable development and One-Health solutions. We are dedicated to the protection of the most vulnerable people in the context of forced migration as well as humanitarian and post-conflict settings.
The collective was founded to bring the best of academic research into programme design and implementation in the field. Each of our practitioners is a professional in their own field: combining the best of advanced degrees with extensive field experience. We emphasize sound grasp of the most current debates in our respective areas, and designing innovative responses that are based on extensive community and stakeholder consultations. Our methodologies are drawn from areas such as law, anthropology, and development economics.
The collective was founded to bring the best of academic research into programme design and implementation in the field. Each of our practitioners is a professional in their own field: combining the best of advanced degrees with extensive field experience. We emphasize sound grasp of the most current debates in our respective areas, and designing innovative responses that are based on extensive community and stakeholder consultations. Our methodologies are drawn from areas such as law, anthropology, and development economics.
CORE TEAM
Ms Dorien Braam has 12+ years of research, monitoring & evaluation, programme development and management experience in humanitarian assistance and sustainable development. With a background in One Health (livestock disease and epidemiology) and engineering (architecture and humanitarian shelter coordination), she has worked with non-profit and UN organisations, governments and the private sector. She is an expert in disaster risk reduction and livelihoods, and has (co-) authored reports on DRR, disaster displacement and gender, and climate change related displacement and conflict. She has worked as researcher and project coordinator in a number of (post-) conflict and developing countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, South-East Asia, China, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. She is fluent in Dutch and English.
Ms Frida Khan is a development sector professional, specialized in skills development, employment issues and women's economic empowerment. She has over twenty years experience with the government of Pakistan and the United Nations as a project manager and technical adviser. Her publications include reports on the gender pay gap in the garments sector in Pakistan, the impact of inheritance laws in Muslim societies on rural women, and skills development strategies for women's economic empowerment. She has worked in Pakistan, Hong Kong, and most recently Jordan.
EXPERT ADVISERS
Praxis Labs has a multidisciplinary network of senior specialists who are leaders in their respective fields. They are strategically deployed for each project. A few examples:
- Our South Asia expert is an anthropologist currently based at one of the world's leading universities. She is an expert on bureaucracies in India, and on the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). She has worked extensively with civil society in the field in India and an expert on social protection issues and ethnographic methodologies, critical to investigating the impact of business activities on migrant workers. She is fluent in Hindi and English.
- Our East Asia expert is a legal scholar who has done extensive research on environmental law and climate change law. She has published widely in international journals and is often invited to present her work at international conferences. She is a member of a number of global research networks. She has experience adjudicating environmental disputes and has served as legal consultant to governments, international organizations and multinational corporations. She is fluent in Mandarin and English.