Dorothy Sang has over ten years’ experience of influencing the international system on humanitarian policy. Having been at the helm of campaigns in leading organisations, she has a proven track record of developing advocacy strategies that lead to policy change – at Save the Children she led a coalition to secure a UK Government win on child refugees; at Oxfam, she devised and led campaigns that saw refugee participation enshrined in the South Sudanese peace process, and secured the rights for women and girls in the Rohingya response, in the last year she has led the Crisis Lookout Coalition campaign has helped to secure new multi-million dollar G7 package of financing for disaster risk.
Dorothy also has direct experience in developing collective advocacy strategies. While at the Global Protection Cluster at the height of the covid-19 pandemic, she designed and led a strategy that successfully mobilised IASC Principle level endorsement for covid-19 protection advocacy messaging, established the Global Protection Advocacy Task Team which now has multi-year funding from the ECHO, and launched the Cluster’s flagship report ‘Breaking the Glass Ceiling’.
Dorothy also has extensive experience of strengthening the capacity of individuals and teams to deliver advocacy.