Neva Frecheville

CONSULTANT, REPUBLIC OF EVERYONE

Neva Frecheville recently relocated to Sydney from London, where she was the lead policy analyst on the UN Sustainable Development Goals for CAFOD from November 2012 – October 2015, heading up the organisation’s work on the successor framework to the Millennium Development Goals. Her focus was on the perspectives and aspirations of people experiencing in poverty and marginalisation, and understanding how a global development framework could contribute to development pathways that lead to lives of dignity. A central approach is around the inclusion of people living in poverty in policy-making processes that affect their lives, so that people have the ability to affect the decisions that impact their lives. She also focused on the integration of climate change so that the post-2015 framework delivers sustainable development within environmental boundaries, and promoting universal energy access in the transition to low carbon development. Neva co-chaired the global civil society campaign, Beyond 2015, from November 2012 – March 2014 and acted as the link between the campaign and the Participate initiative, the global participatory research network which provides in-depth high quality evidence for the post-2015 process from the perspectives of people experiencing poverty and marginalisation. She has a Masters in Globalization, Ethnicity and Culture from the University of Sussex, and studied English and American Literature as an undergrad.