Country Experience: Burkina Faso, Guinea Conakry, Niger, Central African Republic, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia (Highlands and Somali region), Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Mozambique, Madagascar, Bangladesh, Thailand, India, Ireland, Australia, Italy, Spain, France, Colombia.
Fred Jaunasse is a specialist in supply and logistics management and coordination, with more than 18 years of professional humanitarian logistics experience, including 8 years working in low-income countries and fragile states as a field logistician and country logistics manager. His experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post-emergency planning, and long-term development, with organizations such as a community-based organization (CBO) in Eastern Uganda, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Oxfam.
Fred has held several senior roles with Oxfam in the last 10 years; these have included Regional Coordinator with Oxfam Spain, Logistics Resources Coordinator and Adviser for the Oxfam International Global Humanitarian Team (GHT) and, most recently, Senior Adviser to the Oxfam GHT Supply and Logistics team, including leading specific environmental objectives in this unit.
Fred holds a qualification in Management of Small and Medium-Sized Organisations from the University of Limoges, France, followed by a qualification in International Business in Ireland. In addition, he holds a specialty in Humanitarian Supply and Logistics from Bioforce Institute, France. He also holds several training certificates relevant to the humanitarian sector such as LRT-Logistics Response Team training from the Global Logistics Cluster, PARCEL- Partner Capacity Enhancement in Logistics Training of Trainer, HEAT-Hostile Environment Awareness Training from ILS, RTE/R-Real Time Evaluation/Review from Oxfam, CVA-Cash and Voucher Assistance skills for Operation staff from CALP.
He speaks French, English and Spanish fluently, and has a good working knowledge of Italian.
Prior to working in the humanitarian sector, Fred travelled independently across Asia, Africa and Latin America, as well as spending 3 years working in IT sector in Ireland.