Henrik Alffram is a lawyer and sociologist by training with more than 25 years of professional experience focusing on human rights, justice and civil society issues in Europe, Asia and Africa. He has worked for non-governmental human rights organisations, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and at the Faculty of Law at Lund University. As a partner of Rightshouse he has carried out assignments for Swedish and international civil society organisations, academic institutions, bilateral donors, UN agencies and private sector actors.
Henrik specialises in evaluating international development cooperation initiatives related to human rights, justice and governance. At the other end of the process, he is engaged in policy and strategy development, as well as project and programme design. He also has extensive experience in conducting contextual assessments and human rights research.
Henrik has in-depth knowledge of international development cooperation policies and priorities, and a significant track record of applying a human rights-based approach to development. He has often provided training and acted as a mentor on human rights and rule of law issues, and related programme planning, implementation and follow-up.