Tracy Apoll is a gender expert with experience in international development. She specializes in gender-based analysis, gender audits, needs assessments, strategic planning, and monitoring and evaluation. Her work includes results-based management, humanitarian assistance, and training.
As an expert for the Technical Assistance Partnership-Expert Deployment Mechanism (TAP-EDM) initiative implemented by Alinea International and funded by Global Affairs Canada, Tracy works alongside the governments of Mexico, Bolivia, and Colombia. In Mexico, Tracy collaborated with the Ministry of Finance to design a strategy to promote the inclusion of women in leadership in the financial sector using the Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) methodology. For another project in Mexico, she is collaborating with the National Institute for Women (INMUJERES) to develop a proposal for a sustainable early learning and childcare policy framework. She is working on this project in partnership with TAP experts on socio-economic analysis, and childcare policy.
In Bolivia, Tracy worked with the government’s Plurinational Public Service School, which provides training to public servants and civil society organizations, to develop and deliver a one week course and a diploma program on the use of GBA Plus for the implantation of the country’s gender equality policy. Tracy is also collaborating with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Colombia to support institutionalizing the first Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) to foster a discrimination and violence-free internal culture that promotes diversity by implementing a cultural transformation process to foster an inclusive and gender-equitable working environment.
Based in Edmonton, Canada, Tracy has worked with Global Affairs Canada, the Government of Alberta, and multiple municipalities across Alberta. She is bilingual in English and Spanish. Tracy holds a Master of Arts in Development Studies, Specializing in Women, Gender, and Development from the Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University, a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Alberta, and a Diploma of Commerce from King’s University.