Kelly Flynn

kelly.flynn@readysetglobal.com
Cell: +1 (250) 702-6691

Kelly Flynn is a professional, international, participatory development practitioner. She is also a humanitarian aid field worker and adult educator/trainer.  Kelly has particular interests in the following areas: culturally and context-relevant community mobilization in disaster management; refugee and internally displaced persons' (IDP) camp management; and post-conflict, and/or environmental disaster, capacity-building training associated with multi-sector reconstruction efforts.  A large portion of her work has focused on field-level training delivery in development and conflict-affected environments. Past clients and trainees have served in tertiary educational and government sectors, NGOs and CBOs, the UN system, and leading INGOs.  Kelly's work has taken her to West, Central, and southern Africa; South Asia; South-East Asia; and the Pacific-Oceania regions.

Kelly's diverse training interests and experiences include the following professional areas: the training of trainers; participatory and experiential curriculum consultation; humanitarian and community development, including subject-specific training workshop designs and delivery; training resource development; and cross-cultural co-facilitation at the field level. 

Training subject areas include the following: youth mobilization; gender and development/humanitarian response; refugee and IDP camp management (including international refugee and humanitarian law, protection, Sphere Minimum Standards, and humanitarian charters and principles); humanitarian field security management; conflict analysis, assessment, and project management; community development and emergency response capacity-building in complex environments; and development and/or emergency response project monitoring, evaluation, and recommendations.

As an NGO Programme Manager and INGO Project Coordinator, Kelly has expertise in developing, planning, leading, and managing community-based development humanitarian response projects.  These have involved large cross-cultural field teams while working in partnership with local authorities, UN agencies, indigenous/national NGOs and CBOs, INGOs, and humanitarian service providers and donors.

Kelly holds a BA Honours in Sociology and Social Anthropology with a minor in International Development Studies from Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia), an MA in Human Security and Peacebuilding from Royal Roads University (Victoria, British Columbia), and various certifications and diplomas in international development and humanitarian response related sectors.  Her academic background has motivated her to focus her professional efforts in-country and at the field level directly working with community members and leaders; development and humanitarian practitioners; and refugee/IDPs, as well as with diverse adult and youth trainees in the training room.

Kelly is based, with her family, on Vancouver Island and is an independent consultant in the educational, developmental, and humanitarian fields.  She travels on contracted assignments and maintains close professional and personal ties with her past project colleagues and partners, training co-facilitators, and field staff members throughout Africa and Asia.