Rachida El Rhdioui is a youth development and public policy specialist with more than six years of experience across programme management, research, youth participation, governance, digital inclusion, civic engagement, gender equality, and peacebuilding.

Her key qualifications include:

• Programme and project management: designing, coordinating, and delivering multi-stakeholder programmes, including EU-funded and international initiatives.
• Public policy and research: conducting consultations, interviews, stakeholder mapping, qualitative research, policy analysis, and translating findings into reports, recommendations, briefs, and practical programmes.
• Youth engagement and participation: designing inclusive spaces, mentoring young people, facilitating dialogue, and developing approaches that move participants from consultation to meaningful participation and leadership.
• Facilitation and capacity building: delivering workshops, training, policy discussions, and participatory learning on leadership, civic engagement, governance, digital inclusion, and related topics.
• Stakeholder engagement and partnership building: working with governments, municipalities, NGOs, UN agencies, international organizations, grassroots actors, universities, and youth networks.
• Resource mobilization and programme development: developing concepts, supporting funding applications, mobilizing partnerships and resources, and turning ideas into structured initiatives.
• Digital inclusion and governance: experience in digital literacy, cybersecurity awareness, digital rights, online safety, data protection, AI, and Internet governance.
• Strategic communication: developing outreach strategies, awareness content, newsletters, reports, public-facing materials, and communication for diverse audiences.
• Monitoring, reporting, and documentation: tracking programme progress, gathering feedback, documenting activities, producing reports, and supporting learning and evaluation.
• Cross-cultural and international collaboration: experienced in working across Africa, the Mediterranean, and international networks, coordinating with diverse teams and stakeholders across countries and institutional contexts.
• Rachida also brings strong skills in critical thinking, adaptability, relationship-building, facilitation, problem-solving, intercultural communication, and turning community needs into practical, policy-relevant action.