clarisseconsultant@yahoo.fr

Last Name: Sonon First name: Clalice Blanche    With over twenty years of experience, I am a lawyer and an independent consultant in Gender & Development.   Specialist in civil conflict management, I'm a member of FemWise. Activist of women's human rights, I am the first Coordinator of the Platform for the Participation of Women in Decision Making Instances in Benin. Since 24 March 2017, I am President of Social Watch Benin, which is a Citizen Control Network for Public Action in Benin and has special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). As such, I fight tirelessly for the participation of the populations especially, vulnerable people (women, people with special needs, etc.) in the development, monitoring and evaluation of policies, projects and development programs. at the local and national levels in order to take into account the priority needs of the populations, to improve the quality of the public social services rendered to them, for the purpose of their better being. Social Watch Benin being Transparency International's National Contact, I worked for Benin's adoption of its National Integrity System (SNI) to strengthen the fight against corruption, which is a breeding ground for gender inequalities create insecurity and lead to lasting peace and real-time achievement of the SDGs. To this end, I am strongly involved in budget transparency, therefore, monitoring the budget process at the local and national levels to take into account the priority needs of communities in the local and national budgets and thus oversee actions of advocacy for purposes. In addition, until 2017, I was Vice-Coordinator of the WILDAF-Benin network working for the human rights of women and girls in Benin and West Africa.