Introduction
IOM Global LGBTIQ+ Focal Point and UN-GLOBE Board Member
Expert
Jenn Rumbach is the Global LGBTIQ+ Focal Point and HR-Business Partner under the Department of Emergencies with the International Organization for Migration. She holds the position of Treasurer at the UN-GLOBE Board, which is the UN group representing LGBTIQ+ staff, and is a Member of the Research Advisory Group on the All Survivor’s Project, focusing on crisis-related sexual violence affecting men and LGBTIQ+ people.
Since 2005, Jenn has worked in the field of migration in a number of countries, including Benin, Ghana, Egypt, Iraq, India, Jordan, Pakistan and Nepal, and was part of the IOM 2015 Nepal earthquake response team. She authored a training package on working with people with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) in the humanitarian context that is now in wide use, including by IOM, UNHCR, other UN agencies, NGOs and national asylum offices. She has trained more than 1700 humanitarian professionals serving 30 UN agencies, governments and organizations in 17 countries on how to create inclusive and safe spaces for LGBTIQ+ people who migrate or seek international protection as refugees, and advises IOM and other organizations on LGBTIQ+ inclusion in humanitarian programmatic work. She has also managed the development of protection-related trainings on intersectionality, disability, gender, children and older people. Her published work includes Towards Inclusive Resettlement for LGBTI Refugees in Forced Migration Review (2013) and Sexual and Gender Minorities in Humanitarian Emergencies in Issues of Gender and Sexual Orientation in Humanitarian Emergencies (2014). She was a 2005-06 Fulbright Scholar to Ghana, where she researched refugee security issues in camp settings.
Fields of expertise: Inclusive social development / inclusive societies / social inclusion