Ignacia works for Oxfam as Gender Humanitarian Staff Personnel.

She is a gender and disability specialist with 10+ years’ experience working in migration and low-income settings. Within the sector, her experience includes: Trainings on Female Genital Mutilation for survivors within the asylum seeker and refugee community; setting up and managing Women and Girls’ Safe Spaces; women’s access to shelter and WASH; access to healthcare for women with disabilities; supporting women’s grassroots organisation; and developing strategies for the prevention and mitigation of gender-based violence in refugee camps and low-income communities.

Ignacia is an experienced researcher with a focus on participatory and feminist methodologies such as photovoice, gender time-use and timelines, participatory planning, and safety audits and mapping for GBV. She also has experience in qualitative data analysis using NVivo and quantitative data collection with digital tools such as Kobo Collect.

She has led multi-cultural teams and collaborated with Médecins Sans Frontières, World Health Organisation, Global Disability Innovation Hub, University College London, Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre, Federation of Urban and Rural Slum Dwellers in Sierra Leone, Indonesian NGO Kota Kita and Latin American NGO TECHO.

Ignacia holds a PhD from University College London which focused on women’s access to shelter and community-based strategies to mitigate gender-based violence. Ignacia speaks fluent Spanish and English, and has a working knowledge of Portuguese.

Country Experience: Brazil, Chile, Greece, Indonesia, Kenya, Perú, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and The Philippines.

Country Experience: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Jordan, Serbia, Syria, Uganda, Ukraine, Western Balkans, Yemen.

Zorica is a gender specialist with over 20 years’ experience in women’s empowerment programming and gender mainstreaming in conflict, post-conflict, and socially transitioning environments.

Zorica is experienced in working in challenging contexts, including over ten years of gender component leadership experience. Her work history demonstrates a wide range of thematic areas, including women’s and girls’ empowerment, women’s rights organisation development, community engagement, engaging men and exploring masculinity, mainstreaming gender in vulnerable livelihoods, WASH, infrastructure projects, policy, and the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325: Women, Peace and Security.

Zorica’s career is centred on developing and supporting transformative gender equality strategies and research initiatives, to advance women’s rights and social transformation on multi-stakeholder, high-impact humanitarian and resilience programmes.

Zorica holds a Bachelor’s degree in Arabic and a Master’s degree in Gender and Politics. She speaks Serbian and English.

Country Experience: Burundi, Colombia, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, Guatemala, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Mali, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Rwanda, Senegal, Thailand.

Mireia is an independent consultant working with UN agencies and International and Norwegian NGOs on gender equality in the humanitarian development peace nexus.

Mireia has led several programme evaluations, including women’s cross-border trade in Eastern DRC and a study on Colombian refugee women’s access to housing, land and property rights in Panama. She has worked as gender advisor to the Colombian peace process with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mireia has also developed gender policies and strategies for the World Food Programme, UNICEF, the UN Industrial Development Organization, the UN Economic Commission for Africa, Action Against Hunger and The Rainforest Foundation Norway.

Mireia has led participatory gender audits with the International Criminal Court in the Hague, facilitated gender trainings for the European Directorate for Humanitarian Aid and coached staff at the Norwegian National Centre of Human Rights.

Mireia holds an MSc in International Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies in the UK, and an MA in Refugee Studies from the University of East London. She speaks English, Spanish and French.

Country Experience: Bangladesh, Belarus, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Greece, Jordan, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Turkey.

Michelle is a specialist in public health and community engagement. She has more than 15 years professional experience in the fields of capacity building, public health, epidemic preparedness and response and community engagement, which includes over 8 years working in low-income countries and first phase humanitarian emergencies. Her experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post emergency planning and long-term development.

Michelle has worked with several humanitarian NGOs, including Water Aid in Madagascar, International Medical Corps in Syria, and Oxfam in multiple humanitarian contexts. Through her work with Oxfam, she has delivered a range of action-research projects including:

● A partnership defined quality project between rural communities and the Ministry of Health in Sierra Leone.

● A desk study of the impact of socio-cultural perspectives on humanitarian response.

● A participatory design project that bought together female Rohingya refugees and female Bangladeshi architects to collaboratively design sanitation facilities in Cox’s Bazaar (the Social Architecture Project).

Most recently, Michelle led the public health component of Oxfam’s COVID-19 Task Force, providing advice on preventative measures for the Oxfam Confederation. She is currently leading a research project for Oxfam, in collaboration with Help Age and the University of Leeds, looking at the incontinence needs of older people in humanitarian emergencies.

Prior to working with Oxfam, Michelle led capacity building initiatives for RedR UK, focusing on building humanitarian capacity in WASH and Shelter. She supported the roll out of a WASH specific monitoring system for UNHCR, and a WASH sector capacity analysis in Sudan.

Michelle has Masters degrees in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response from the University of Manchester, and Public Health from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Country Experience: John has worked with Oxfam (Great Britain/Intermon and International GHT) since 2017, and earlier Médecins Sans Frontières in and including Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan (Darfur), South Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Venezuela, and Yemen

John is a supply and logistics specialist, with a focus on logistics resource management.

John has a background in electrical engineering and is a veteran logistician. He has hands-on experience working on hospital waste management, including incinerator construction and management. John has been a humanitarian logistician for more than 20 years, with extensive field experience.

John is therefore well versed in conducting needs assessments, project asset disposal, networking, and cluster orientation.

Additionally, John is a Training of Trainers (ToT) facilitator, who specialises in partner organisation empowerment and team development. He has received intensive external training in logistics (LRT training with WFP), Security (SAFA/HEAT with ILS),

Memberships: John is passionate about humanitarian work and founded the Association for Dignity of Catalunya humanitarian organisation, supporting elderly people and disadvantaged children in Africa. He is an associative member in MSF. He is also a member of the Oxfam feminist working group. John speaks English, Spanish, and Kiswahili.

Country Experience: Argentina, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinée Conakry, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal.

Manel is a specialist in community engagement. He has more than 15 years’ experience, including more than over 7 years working in low-income countries and fragile states. His experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post emergency planning and long-term development.

Manel has worked for several Africa-focused organisations in community engagement on public health, WASH, migrations and livelihood projects. He collaborates as associated lecturer in Development and Humanitarian Studies at Universitat Oberta deCatalunya.

Manel holds a Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and received an Open Source Programming Master’s Degree from the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) for his thesis onData Revolution, Cooperation and Open Source: Implementation of Platforms Based on Open Source for the Management of the Municipal Cadastre in the Cities of Manihça, Inhambane and Maxixé (Mozambique).

In addition to anthropology, Manel holds postgraduate studies inEngineering Applications for Human Development (UOC), inEngineering and Humanitarian Aid (UOC)and inCommunication for Peace (UAB). He has a higher-level training cycle on Computer Systems Programming and he is a Chartered Catalan Association of Anthropology Professionals.

Country Experience: Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Fiji, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen, Zimbabwe.

Mary is a specialist in public health promotion and community engagement. She has more than 20 years of professional public health promotion and community development experience, including over 10 years working in low-income countries and fragile states. Her experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post emergency planning and long-term development.

Mary has worked for several Africa-focused organisations, concentrating on WASH and water governance. She has researched the area of safe water, hygiene and diarrhoea, and helped develop manuals on household water treatment based on field trials in Kenya, and worked towards the roll out of household water treatment solution in Kenya.

Mary co-authored a study on the impact of a school-based safe water and hygiene program on knowledge and practices of students and their parents in Nyanza province (Epidemiology andInfection Journal: 2007), and a study on diarrhoea prevention in Kenya schools using a simple safe water and hygiene intervention (America Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: 2007).

Mary received a Master’s degree in Community Health and Development from Great lakes University of Kisumu (GLUK), for her thesis on Behaviour Changes Among School Pupils: Adoption of Safe Water Systems and Hand washing Practises Among School Going Children in Western Kenya.

Country Experience: Andy has worked in over 45 countries focused mainly in Central, Southern and West Africa, South and South East Asia, Middle East, and Latin America.

Andy Bastable is a specialist in sanitation and water supply. He has over 35 years of professional WASH experience working exclusively in low-income countries and fragile states. His experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post emergency planning and long-term development.

Andy joined Oxfam in 1990, before becoming the Public Health Engineering Team Leader in 2002. Andy has focused on improving technologies and approaches in sanitation, bulk and household water treatment, evaluations, and leading a number of innovation projects for emergency response and long-term sustainability.

Andy was the WASH focal point for the 2nd edition of Sphere in 2004, and is currently co-lead of the global cluster FSM technical working group. He led the Emergency Wash Sector Gap Analysis in 2013 and 2020.

Maria is the Business Development Officer for Oxfam Consults. She is responsible for operationalising business development elements of Oxfam Consults.

Maria’s responsibilities include supporting the Business Development Coordinator in the expansion of the Oxfam Consults program and providing support on related issues, including administrative, communications, procurement, HR and finance. She also supports projects with the Gender Team, having experience in research.

Maria has a background in law, having completed part of her studies between Spain and Italy. Maria speaks Spanish, English, French and Italian.

HEAT- Hostile Environment Awareness Training

Country Experience: Australia, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, Yemen.

Carly is a specialist in Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP). She has more than 15 years humanitarian experience, including over 10 years working exclusively in low-income countries and fragile states. Her experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post emergency planning and long-term development.

Carly has worked for several international NGOs and UN agencies. She has worked in a range of positions, including programme management, coordination, and information management.

Carly has held a long passion for improving accountability to communities, and now represents Oxfam on the Board of the Core Humanitarian Standard Alliance. She has been closely involved in the development and roll-out of Oxfam’s innovative ‘Your Word Counts’ digital feedback system and specialises in helping Oxfam and partners improve their culture of accountability through training and capacity strengthening.

Carly holds a Master’s degree from the Australian National University in International Affairs.

Country experience: Kenya, South Sudan, Myanmar, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Iraq, Ukraine, Nigeria, Bangladesh.

James is a water, sanitation, and public health engineering specialist, with over ten years of experience with programme delivery, cluster coordination, research, policy development, and capacity building, supporting countries across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

Over the past few years, he has developed a professional focus on appropriate market-based approaches, quality assurance and accountability, and data science applications in the field of WASH. He has led or contributed to several projects in these focus areas and has co-authored technical guides on MBP for WASH and Quality Assurance and Accountability.

In 2020 he joined the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research’s Humanitarian Water Lab (York University, Toronto), as Technical Advisor to the Safe Water Optimization Tool and is the Associate Course Director for the Humanitarian Water Engineering online course.

Prior to his work in the humanitarian sector James co-founded a social enterprise, developing designs for household water collection, treatment and storage products that could be manufactured by makers in low-resource communities.  He completed a Masters in Product Design Engineering, a program jointly delivered by the University of Glasgow and the Glasgow School of Art, in 2009, combining mechanical engineering with human-centered design.

Caroline is a specialist in water supply, sanitation and environmental management. She has more than 10 years professional experience, mostly working in low-income countries and fragile states. Her experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post emergency planning and long-term development.

Caroline has worked for several non-governmental organisations in Africa and Asia, focusing on WASH and water governance. She has performed research on some of the pertinent WASH issues in Kenya, including a review of Kenya’s Pro-poor Implementation Plan for Water Supply and Sanitation (PPIP –WSS, 2007) by the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Government of Kenya, which she presented at the African Water Association’s 18th Congress. Additionally, Caroline conducted a critical review of the existing government policy on rural water supply in Sierra Leone, with Tonkolili District as the case study. Another notable publication she compiled was on the Urine Diverting Dry Toilet (UDDT) Standard Operating Procedures in 2018.

In recent years, Caroline has expanded her technical scope to cover behaviour change communication, using the community engagement approach. She has led field teams to effectively manage epidemics like Ebola and COVID-19. Prior to working in the humanitarian sector, she did some assignments with environmental companies and governmental parastatals in Kenya.

Caroline has a Bachelor of Science degree in Soil, Water and Environmental Engineering from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) in Kenya. In addition to her engineering qualification, Caroline holds a Master of Science degree in Water Management (specialising in community water and sanitation) from the Cranfield University, UK. She also holds a post-graduate certificate in Water and Environmental Law and Policy from UNESCO. She is a registered engineer with the Engineers Registration Board of Kenya.

Regional Experience: Eastern Europe and Central Asia (Ukraine, Kazakhstan)

Tara is a public health researcher with over 8 years of experience studying access to healthcare for people living with HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. She has directed multiple research grants funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, with a focus on evaluating both intervention effectiveness as well as intervention implementation. She seeks to produce community-engaged, culturally relevant, and applied research that promotes equitable access to healthcare in the Eastern European and Central Asian regions.

Tara holds two Masters degrees, in Public Health and in International Affairs. She is currently pursuing her Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences.

She speaks Ukrainian and Russian

Martin is a MEAL specialist with a focus on developing MEAL systems and processes that are digital by default.

He speaks French and English fluently, and ahas a good working knowledge of Spanish.

Country Experience: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Haiti, Indonesia, Jordan, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Thailand, Yemen, Zimbabwe.

Bagus is a specialist in water supply and sanitation. He has more than 22 years professional engineering experience, including over 8 years working in commercial construction and 14 years in the humanitarian/development sector in low-income countries and fragile states.

Bagus worked for several consultancy and contractor companies in Indonesia, before switching into humanitarian/development work. His experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post emergency planning and long-term development.

Bagus received a Bachelors degree in civil engineering from Gadjah Mada University, with a thesis on The Use of Primavera For Managing Project Delays: A Project Management Case Study.

Country Experience: Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Chad Basin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, Sri Lanka, Sudan (Darfur), South Sudan, Uganda, United Kingdom.

Maxwell is a Logistics Coordinator for Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Team, with more than 20 years’ experience in the humanitarian and development sectors. He is passionate about improving the quality of service delivery and accountability to beneficiaries and communities, by adopting a strategic and proactive approach to complex issues.

Maxwell has spent the past 10 years in pivotal Operations and Supply Chain Management roles at Oxfam, as well as 5 years in programme support management and 5 years in corporate sectors of various aid organisations. As such, he has worked on a diverse range of interventions and participated in deployments across 4 continents and more than 20 countries; this has enabled him to develop robust coordination, leadership, capacity training and supply chain skills.

Maxwell has worked with Oxfam (Great Britain/International), Médecins Sans Frontières, ACF, SCI, and the US African Development Fund. Throughout his career, Maxwell has been fully involved with humanitarian and development projects, with specific focus on protracted crises/disasters, post emergency planning and long-term development. He has a proven record of successfully outlining project scopes, strategies, and designs, defining implementation mechanisms that are geared towards long-term sustainability, and management of humanitarian programmes.

Additionally, Maxwell has extensive logistics experience, possessing programme logistics knowledge related to food security and income generation, nutrition, WASH, epidemics and outbreaks, natural disasters, and cash and markets within the disaster and development sphere.Furthermore, he is well versed in mitigating supply chain risk and developing guidelines to optimise in-field humanitarian operations.

Maxwell has a Business Administration degree; he is currently pursuing a Certification in Humanitarian Supply Chain Management with the Fritz Institute and an MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management with the University of Salford, specialising in humanitarian logistics.

Country Experience: Bangladesh, Iraq, Malawi, Mozambique, Philippines, Serbia.

Rodilyn is a MEAL specialist. She has more than 9 years of professional MEAL experience, including more than 15 years working in low-income countries and fragile states. Her experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post emergency planning and long-term development.

Rodilyn has worked extensively in fragile and conflict affected states, such as Iraq and Southern Philippines, as well as lending remote support for Syria and Yemen. She has worked in several countries, both in-country and remotely, focusing on establishing monitoring, accountability/feedback systems, and facilitating learning reviews and evaluations. She has a long history of working in both rural and urban contexts.

Prior to joining the humanitarian sector, Rodilyn worked extensively in project development and management, thus possessing a good knowledge of project cycle management. Thematically, her work experience is mostly in Economic Justice, Women Economic Empowerment, SustainableLivelihoods and Resilience.

In her roles as MEAL Coordinator and later as MEAL Adviser in the humanitarian sector, she has supported responses with integrated programmes on WASH, Emergency Food Security and Vulnerable Livelihoods, Cash, Gender and Protection.

Country Experience: Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece,Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines, Senegal, Tunisia, Turkey(Syria).

Juanjo is a supply chain and logistics adviser, specialising in humanitarian logistics.Juanjo has more than17years of professional logistics experience, including more than 2 years working at field level as head of base, 2 years as a flying logistics coordinator in emergencies, and several field visits performing training, audits, and real time reviews.

Juanjo spent part of his humanitarian career at Oxfam headquarters, in decisional and advisor positions. His experience includes training in logistics, as well as cross-cutting issues like communication, gender, security, cash, local partners, preparedness and exit programmes.

He has worked for several humanitarian organisations as a regional logistics advisor across Africa and Latin America. Juanjo is currently working as a Global Logistics Adviser for Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Team, managing a team of humanitarian support personal to be deployed in emergency response.

Juanjo has been deployed on more than 14 emergency missions, helping him develop a deep understanding of the humanitarian field in different contexts (typhoons, war conflict, droughts, etc). He has extensive programme implementation knowledge and experience, having worked as an in-field head of base. Juanjo is also a knowledgeable trainer who collaborates with the University of Alcalá annually to deliver training.

Juanjo is licensed in Law at University of Barcelona. He has received intensive external training in security (SAFA/HEAT with ILS), logistics (LRT training with WFP), cash (with CALP), donor’s proposal (with ECHO), local partners (PARCEL methodology) and several internal trainings (safeguarding, safe programming, feminism and communication). Juanjo speaks Spanish, French and English fluently, and has a good working knowledge of Russian and Arabic.

Country Experience: Iraq.

Rohlat has extensive experience as an in-country consultant, with more than ten years of work experience in Iraq. Her skills include conducting in-person and remote interviews on sensitive topics, coordinating interviews, training teams of enumerators, managing the data collection process, establishing contacts with local organisations, working with international teams, and Arabic–English translation work. She also has extensive experience with overseeing the data collection process.

Besides Oxfam, Rohlat’s previous clients include UNICEF, IOM, Exigo, Mercy Corps and SREO. Her core research topics include the protection environment of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), refugees and host communities, and the consequences of conflict in Iraq. All her research has included a specific gender component.

Rohlat holds an English language degree. She speaks English, Arabic, Kurmanji and Sorani.

Country Experience: Albania, Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, Yemen.

Brian has a technical background in hydrogeology and groundwater resources, and a broad interest in durable water and sanitation solutions. He has more than 30 years professional engineering and management experience, including 25 years working exclusively in low-income countries and fragile states. His experience includes managing water and sanitation programmes and teams responding to protracted humanitarian crises, as well as long-term development.

Brian lived and worked in Horn and East Africa for 15 years, focusing on water issues in arid and semi-arid contexts.He returned to the UK in 2016 to join Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Team. Brian has experience working with governments, donors, UN agencies, private sector, other civil society organisations (international and local) and affected populations to address their WASH needs. This includes urban, rural and working contexts, as well as working with mobile, sedentary and displaced communities affected by conflict, natural disasters and other human induced crises.

Brian has been a promoter of renewable energy for many years and is currently involved in the Global Solar Water Initiative, which aims to build evidence and train humanitarian workers and decision makers on the technical and economic benefits of adopting solar energy.

Brian has a Masters in Water Resource Systems Engineering from Newcastle University. He worked as a hydrogeologist in the UK for 4 years, prior to entering the development and humanitarian sectors.

Country Experience: Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Burundi, Ethiopia, Haiti, Iraq, Myanmar, Netherlands, Niger, Peru, Rwanda, South Sudan, Spain, Tanzania.

Jaime is a specialist in water resources management, water supply and sanitation. He has more than 12 years professional engineering experience, including more than 10 years working in low-income countries and fragile states. His experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post emergency planning and long-term development.

Jaime has worked for several organisations, focusing on WASH and water governance. He has extensively researched the water distribution options for refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and host communities. He has worked as a senior adviser to UNICEF, UNHCR, national governments, private sector companies and humanitarian agencies.

Jaime also has a long history of working in both rural and urban contexts, including major engineering projects, flood alleviation, water pipeline designs, solar pumping schemes, climate resilience and supporting water utility and institutional reforms.

Jaime received a qualification from Algeciras University for his studies in Civil Engineering, specialising in Hydrology. He also holds a post-graduate certificate as aWASH expert in international cooperation from Alcalá de Henares. Jaime speaks Spanish, English, French and Portuguese.

Shreeju is a specialist in cash and voucher programming and market-based approaches. She has worked leading and facilitating the design, delivery and monitoring of cash and voucher programming to reach sectoral and multipurpose outcomes across various emergency settings. She has focused on the promotion and use of digital technology and the use of innovative group cash transfers to facilitate greater efficiency, transparency and community-based CVA programs. Shreeju has a master's degree in Environmental Management and her professional background spans more than 9 years of working on humanitarian and development issues in food security, livelihoods, economic empowerment and rural development, and climate research.

Country Experience: Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Vanuatu, Mozambique, Poland.

Country Experience: Bangladesh, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Greece, Lebanon, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Uganda, United States.

Mathilde sepcialises in the areas of gender equality, prevention and response to gender-based violence, protection of human rights and safeguarding.

Mathilde has more than 8 years of experience working in multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post-emergency planning and long-term development. She has collaborated with several internationalNGOs, UN agencies, and research institutes across East, West and Central Africa, Europe, South Asia and the Middle East. Throughout her career, she has worked in a range of positions, including global expert and specialist, technical adviser, country coordinator, and programmemanager.

Mathilde is passionate about women's protection and empowerment and supporting organisations to ensure their programming is not only safe for women and girls, but also results in gender-transformative outcomes. Mathilde has extensive experience in gender-sensitive assessments and gender analysis, training design and facilitation, as well as program and strategy design.

Mathilde holds a Master’s degree from Sciences Po Paris -France, in International Affairs, specialised in Human Rights. She speaks English, French, Spanish and Italian.

Laura Rana has nearly fifteen years' experience in monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) across the international development and humanitarian sectors. Her experience covers a wide range of sectors and contexts, with a particular focus on children and young people, and in-depth experience in Bangladesh. Recent full-time roles including leading the British Red Cross' PMEAL team, and working as the Global MEAL Advisor for War Child UK, where she led the organisation's CHS self-assessment.

Laura has an undergraduate degree in English from the University of Oxford and an MSC in Development Studies from SOAS, and is about to commence a MSt in Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cambridge. She specialises in participatory, action-oriented approaches - for example, leading the design and piloting of a pioneering child-participatory Complaints Feedback and Response Mechanism while leading the MEAL team for Save the Children's response to the Rohingya refugee crisis.

Country experience: Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Somalia, Morocco, Yemen, Afghanistan, Tajikistan.

Ehabiddin Al-Jayyousi holds a degree in Civil/Water and Environmental Engineering with focus on infrastructure and environmental health engineering in emergency, post-emergency, and development contexts. He is also a professional trainer of trainers and material designer in his area of expertise.

Ehabiddin specializes in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) with emphasis on the design and contextualization of training materials, and he is a certified trainer of trainers by the Global WASH Cluster in different WASH topics, including WASH in Operational Coordination and Leadership. During the past few years, he has supported various organizations in building the capacity of various international governmental and non-governmental entities in several counties in improving water and sanitation public policy and interventions, and identifying and mitigating public health issues related to lack of environmentally sound water and sanitation services, especially those leading to climate-related issues.

He also possesses high skills and expertise in WASH as a main factor for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) especially SDG 6 on water, and its’ cross-cutting issues with the other sectors, including WASH in Health-Care Facilities and solid and healthcare waste management (HCWM) under the Sanitation component.  One of his most recent works included supporting the assessment and implementation of Management (HCWM) for more than 1500 primary and secondary Health-Care-Facilities all over Tajikistan, in addition to the review and endorsement of updated National WASH standards for Schools and Health-Care Facilities in the country, based on the parameters of the WASH Facility Improvement Tool (FIT).

While Ehabiddin may spend his working days delivering services to International Governments and Organizations in different countries, the fact that WASH provides an unlimited space for innovation and collaboration on achieving targets of other SDGs, such as SDG3 on health and SDG 4 on Education, is a key driver of his passion to do what he does every day.

Country Experience: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Somaliland, South Sudan, Yemen, Sudan (Khartoum & Port Sudan), and Poland.

Yasmin is a specialist in supply and logistics, as well as partners’ capacity development. She has more than 15 years professional experience on supply chain and logistics management; this includes more than 9 years of international working experience in low-income countries and fragile states.

Yasmin’s experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, emergency and post emergency planning, and long-term development. She has worked in several African and Asian countries and the Middle East, as a Logistics Manager and a Logistics Coordinator. Her main focus was on supply chain and logistics functions management, from opening to closing phase of programme set-up, assessment and external coordination. She was also responsible for IT functions and administration management, both in emergency and development programmes.

Yasmin holds a Masters of Business Administration and a professional degree in Supply Chain and Logistics Management-Certification in Humanitarian Logistics from Fritz Institute/CLIT (UK). She has received intensive external training in logistics (LRT training with WFP), Security (SAFA/HEAT with ILS), Need Assessment Training (NAT) RedR, India  and various Oxfam internal training  CTP (Cash Transfer Programming – The Fundamentals), Training of Trainers ToT -PARCEL(Partner Capacity Enhancement in Logistics), Information Security Awareness , Anti- Fraud and Corruption,  safeguarding and safe programming .

Yasmin is able to speak and write in Bangla and English, as well as being able to speak and understand Hindi and Urdu.

Joelle Semaan is a specialist in MEAL and Program Quality (including Strategy Development). She has more than 12 years of experience in humanitarian and development contexts, working almost exclusively in fragile and low-income countries in both urban and rural settings.

Joelle's experience is versatile, supporting MEAL and PQ work in different sectors at local, regional and global levels. She has worked with several international NGOs, with a focus on the MENA region, in managerial roles for MEAL and PQ. She has experience developing and rolling out country office strategies, impact measurement frameworks, information management systems, and humanitarian accountability mechanisms. She also has experience in business development/grant acquisition, putting in place the appropriate systems and procedures for effective fundraising efforts.

Joelle has a Master in Public Health from the American University of Beirut. She is fluent in Arabic, English and French.

Country Experience: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda.

Vincent is a water and environmental specialist, with over 12 years of progressive experience in water resources management, water supply and sanitation in low-income countries and fragile states. His experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post emergency planning and long-term development.

Vincent has worked for several Africa-focused organisations, concentrating on WASH and water governance.He experience covers both rural and urban contexts, including water supply engineering projects, sustainable management models, irrigation and supporting water utility and institutional reforms.

Vincent received a qualification in Water and Environmental Engineering from Egerton University for his thesis on Geotechnical Investigation and Design of Egerton Dam.

Country Experience: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Philippines, Myanmar, Vanuatu, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, Mozambique.

Hilman is a specialist in water supply, sanitation, and digital technology. He has more than 13 years professional engineering experience, including over 9 years working exclusively in low-income countries and fragile states. His experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post emergency planning and long-term development.

Hilman has worked in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, focusing on WASH with specialisation in digital programming and ethical data.He has worked as a senior staff member in humanitarian agencies, including the INGO sectors and the Red Cross Movement.

Hilman received a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia for his thesis on Ground Water Modelling. Additionally, he holds a Master of Science from IHE Delft in the Netherlands. Hilman is proficient in mobile data collection tools, such as Survey CTO, Kobo, ODK based survey, and Mobenzi. He is skilled in various GIS mapping tools, such as QGIS, Water Network mapping and cutting-edge visualization with Power Bi.

Country Experience: South Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Philippines, Yemen, Nepal, Iraq, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Liberia, Sierra Leone.

Abdullah, or Duoi as his colleagues call him, has more than 15 years of experience in both the humanitarian and development sectors. He has experience working in the contexts of disease outbreaks, civil war, typhoons, floods, earthquakes and refugees.

Duoi is highly skilled in managing projects and staff, coordination, working with partners, community mobilisation, capacity building, mainstreaming gender, protection and disaster risk reduction in WASH interventions, large scale NFI distribution, developing modules and learning materials, and conducting project evaluations.

Duoi has worked in some of the world’s most difficult and often dangerous contexts in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Country Experience: Ethiopia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan (Darfur), Uganda.

Asenath is a specialist in water supply and solar systems planning, design and implementation. She has more than 14 years engineering experience, including 10 years working in the private sector and over 4 years working in low-income countries and fragile states. Her experience includes leading the design and implementation of solar powered water systems for governments and aid agencies in both humanitarian and development contexts.

She has led the development of capacity within the WASH sector through development of reference material, documents, tools, standards and guidelines for quality implementation of sustainable water systems using solar energy.

Asenath has championed the mainstreaming of solar energy for water supply, by raising awareness among various stakeholders, including building evidence on its sustainability and cost effectiveness. Her work building the capacity of WASH engineers on solar energy has expanded its application in refugee camps, Internally Displaced Persons camps and marginalised rural communities for improved water service delivery.

Asenath holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Nairobi, as well as professional learning on the topics of solar photovoltaics, solar water pumping, water resources management and policy, climate science, public private partnerships that are crucial for planning, design, financing and implementation of sustainable water systems. She is currently pursuing an MBA in entrepreneur ship, focusing on the role of small businesses in expanding access to renewable energy which will be useful in exploring new models of service delivery to populations in fragile contexts.

Country Experience: Afghanistan, Bangkok, Bangladesh, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Nepal, Pakistan, Syria (North East, North West, GoS), Turkey, Yemen.

Muhammad is a MEAL specialist with a focus on Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) and the Core Humanitarian Standards. He has 19 years of experience working with several international NGOs and UN agencies. He specialises in coordination and support in the development of MEAL mechanisms at an agency-wide level.

Muhammed has conducted various studies, including assessments, pre-and post-KAP, and endline evaluations of humanitarian and development projects. He has developed and implemented accountability systems in more than 10 organisations, and provided technical support to various national and international organisations to develop and implement their accountability systems.

As a quality and accountability practitioner, Muhammed has led CHS self-assessments of 5 organisations. He is also a registered trainer of Sphere minimum standards and its companion volumes and has conducted numerous sessions with staff of national and international organisations. He is also a trained investigator from the OSACO Group and CHS Alliance. He has led the workplace investigations of more than 150 cases. He speaks English, Urdu and Hindi fluently, and has a good working knowledge of Arabic.

Anne is a specialist in hygiene promotion, with a focus on community engagement. She has more than 35 years humanitarian experience, including more than 10 years working in low-income countries and fragile states as part of humanitarian response teams. Her experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post emergency and planning for long-term development.

Anne has worked for several different organisations (NGOs, UN, Red Cross Movement) and focuses on the hygiene promotion/community engagement aspects of WASH. She has been involved in the production of key documents, such as the Guidelines on Hygiene Promotion for IFRC, and the revision of the Sphere Handbook. Anne is a charity member of RedR and is on the British Red Cross/IFRC roster as a Hygiene Promoter.

Anne has a long history of working in a wide variety of humanitarian contexts, planning, implementing, monitoring and capacity building on health/hygiene promotion; this includes responses to natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes, epidemic responses (Ebola), and movement of people due to conflict (Uganda).

In the course of her career, Anne has done 10 years of field work and 5 years as an adviser for Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Team, which involved doing rapid assessments, providing advice and support both in the field and from the Oxford office. For the last 20 years, Anne has worked as a freelance consultant doing reviews/evaluations, short rapid response deployments and capacity building in a variety of humanitarian topics (e.g. standards and accountability).

Anne obtained a Masters in Community Health for Developing Countries (MCommH) from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool University in 1991. Additionally, she holds an MSc in Development Management from the Open University and an International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance. Anne initially trained as a nurse/midwife/paediatric nurse which led to her working in the humanitarian sector.

Country Experience: Iraq, Jordan.

Hala is a civil engineer and specialist in water supply and sanitation. She has more than four years of engineering experience, working exclusively in low-income countries and fragile states. Her experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post emergency planning and long-term development.

Hala has worked for several international organisations, focusing on WASH and water governance. She has extensively researched sustainable water supply and sanitation in refugee settings and public schools. She has worked in different positions (Senior Operations Officer, Construction Engineer, Head of Infrastructure Department, Researcher) for intergovernmental organisations, international private sector companies, humanitarian agencies (UNOPS, Action Against Hunger), and the United Nations.

Hala also has a long history of working in both rural and urban contexts, including major engineering projects, humanitarian development, climate resilience and green growth. She advocated for young professional involvement and developing data for sustainable water supply in Jordan in her policy paper with West Asia-North Africa Institute (WANA)and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) under the project “Jordan-EU Dialogue on Human Security Issues.”

Hala holds an MSc in Advanced Engineering Management, with distinction, from the University of Birmingham for her thesis on ‘A Conceptual Framework: Sustainability of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Post-Emergency Contexts’. She wasawarded the Chevening Scholarship by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. In addition to her qualifications, Hala volunteers with the Jordan River Foundation to create a better environment for Children.

Country Experience: Afganistan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Haiti, Indonesia, Iraq, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Mozambique, Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, Sierra Leone.

Susana is a specialist in water resources management, water supply and sanitation with special focus on faecal sludge management (FSM). She has more than 15 years of engineering experience, including over 12 years working in low-income countries and fragile states. Her experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post emergency planning and long-term development.

During her professional humanitarian years, she has worked for three organisations, namely Oxfam GB, CRS and UNHCR; her focus has always been on WASH and water governance, and now also increasingly in FSM. She has extensively researched the intersection between the pure technical engineering solution aspect and the social component in water and wastewater resource management. For the past five years, Susana has worked as an adviser for private sector companies and humanitarian agencies (United Nations and INGO sectors).

Susana also has a long history of working in rural, peri-urban and urban contexts, including a wide range of engineering projects, such as water and wastewater management systems recovery and upgrade, disaster and climate resilience, and supporting water utility and institutional reforms. Susana has worked in the world’s most austere environments.

Susana’s initial degrees were Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management Engineering from Valencia Polytechnic University and TECNUN University. After a few years working for the private sector, she upgraded her studies by coursing a Social Science Master degree in Humanitarian Assistance, NOHA, with her thesis done on the environmental impact in the fragile and conflict affected country of Democratic Republic of the Congo.In addition to her qualification, Susana holds a 2nd qualification of Water and Wastewater Engineering from the University of Cranfield, obtained in 2018 with her thesis based on Anaerobic Digestion.

Iulia Toma is an intersectional feminist with 9 years of diverse experience, highly versed in delivering significant scopes of work in limited timeframes on gender integration across several country contexts.

Her country experience is in South Sudan, Colombia, Haiti, DRC, Bangladesh and Mozambique responding to rapid onset emergencies as well as protracted conflict ones.

Iulia has a diverse field based and head office humanitarian experience working across local NGOs, international NGOs and the UN, with a focus on gender analysis and gender mainstreaming in humanitarian action.

Iulia is a knowledgeable and confident trainer on gender equality and feminist principles and can do so in five languages – Romanian, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

Country Experience: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Jordan, Laos, Lebanon, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zimbabwe.

Louise is an experienced humanitarian and development professional who has worked in the sector for over 20 years. This includes having worked in multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters and long-term development.

With a background in public health and a recognised capability in MEAL, Louise is Oxfam’s Global Lead for Humanitarian MEAL and Knowledge Management.Louise has led several large-scale humanitarian and development programme evaluations and reviews, including real time reviews and meta-evaluationsIn addition to working with Oxfam, Louise has also worked with local organisations in many countries, as well as with RedR Australia and UN agencies.

Louise received a Bachelor of Social Science from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia (1999) and a Masters of Public Health in International Health Stream, from Monash University in Melbourne,Australia (2006), where she focused on community-based responses to HIV and AIDS prevention and mitigation.This included working closely with affected communities, focusing on strategies for reducing stigma and discrimination, and improving livelihoods for people living with HIV and AIDs.

In 2011, Louise took these programme management skills, with a focus on MEAL, into the humanitarian sector. She has since led humanitarian programme reviews, including RedR’s UN Standby Partnership in the Middle East and Vanuatu, a five-year Humanitarian Programme Review for Oxfam in Myanmar, humanitarian real time evaluations/reviews in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea, Mozambique and Solomon Islands, andh umanitari an impact evaluations in Nepal, Papua New Guinea and Laos.Louise has also led various humanitarian learning and training events, for local, national, international, UN and university stakeholders.

Country Experience: Asia and the Pacific - Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, Pakistan, Malaysia. Middle East, Northern Africa, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia - Lebanon, Jordan, Georgia, Armenia, Abkhazia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Ukraine, Hungary, Tunisia. West and Central Africa - Gambia, Guinea, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Niger, Cote D’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Chad. Eastern Africa - Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda. Southern Africa - Malawi, Botswana, Madagascar, Mozambique. Latin America and the Caribbean – Honduras, Haiti, Turks & Caicos. Remote evaluations of – Somalia, South Sudan, and Hungary.

Sharon is a cross-disciplinary consultant with extensive experience with senior team leadership of large-scale, multi-agency strategic reviews and evaluations for donors, respected international agencies, UN, Red Cross and NGOs (ACF, DFID, ECHO, FAO, WFP, World Bank, CaLP, IRC, Save, Oxfam, IFRC, American, British & Irish Red Cross and others). With technical qualifications (MSc Land & Water Management, First Class BSc in Development Studies & Natural Resources, Post Graduate Certificate in Education) and published theoretical work that is supported by extensive implementation, technical design, review and evaluation, training design and facilitation experience. Sharon has almost 30 years in the natural resources, food security and sustainable rural livelihoods sectors and has experience across the emergency relief, recovery and development continuum and nexus in Africa, Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Latin America and the Caribbean. Specialising in household economic security (HES & HEA), cash transfer programming and coordination, market analysis (EMMA), climate change adaptation and resilience approaches in rural and urban contexts and has a detailed knowledge of M&E, KAP assessment methods, gender mainstreaming, nutrition (HDDS/IYCF) and PHAST. I am a CaLP Certified Trainer.

Sharon also runs a global cooperative network of over 150 experienced independent humanitarian consultants.

Sharon speaks English, French, and Spanish.

Damien is a food and economic security adviser in Oxfam, with an agronomist background.

Damien has more than 20 years of professional food security experience in humanitarian and development contexts (urban, and rural), including more than 10 years working at the field level (West and Central Africa regions) as head of an agricultural project or food security coordinator. Damien has extensive experience leading need assessment and multi-sector final project evaluation(Food Security, Protection, WASH) in different countries(CAR, Niger, Somaliland, ...).

He speaks French and English fluently and has a minimum knowledge of Spanish.

Country Experience: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Vietnam.

Helen is a social development and MEAL expert, with extensive experience across a broad range of civil society projects and programmes.

While working for Plan UK, Helen produced a case study on civil society’s role in developing a National Social Protection Policy for Malawi. Within Uganda, Helen completed two assignments on early childhood development, most recently looking at efforts to make Early Childhood Care and Development interventions gender transformative.

For several years, Helen played a lead role in the Stars Foundation Impact Awards, which included interviewing and short listing CSO candidates across South-East Asia and then conducting organisational assessment visits to short-listed CSOs. In 2017, Helen facilitated a Monitoring and Evaluation workshop in Vietnam for 16 impact awardees from Asia. As Child and Youth adviser with Department for International Development (DFID), she helped set up the DFID/CSO Children and Youth Network and project-managed the DFID-funded ‘Youth Participation Guide’.Since 2009 Helen has worked on the assessment of DFID/FCDO funding windows, assessing concept notes, proposals and Annual Reports.

Helen has carried out a number of participatory and inclusive evaluations and assessments, utilising methods and tools to enable a wide range of voices and perspectives to be included, with a focus on lessons learned to inform future planning. This includes country strategy assessments for Plan Nepal and Plan Timor-Leste, mid-term and final evaluations for UOB-Optimus Foundation’s partnership in Liberia, a global thematic review of Plan International’s early childhood development work, and an independent evaluation of ‘Safer Cities for Girls’ for Plan Germany.

In 2020-21 Helen was part of a team that worked on the ICAI review of DFID/FCDO support to youth employment in the Middle East and North Africa, with a focus on bringing the voice of young people into the review and on gender and social inclusion.

Helen has a BSc in Economics from City University, and an MSc from the University of Bath in Development Studies.

Country Experience: Bangladesh, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, Jamaica, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nepal, Rwanda, South Sudan, Spain, Tajikistan, Uganda, United Kingdom.

Tanya is a Communications Specialist with over 15 years’ professional experience. Since 2014, she has focused on the aid sector, with emphasis on WASH. She has worked both in-house and in the field for international NGOs, with experience covering multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, and longer-term development.

Tanya specialises in visual communications, both video production (user-generated, animated, short or long-form documentaries), and the translation of complex materials into visually engaging tools, through editing, design or simple formatting/illustrative concepts. She helps organisations to identify target audiences and communications objectives, then crafts and supervises the production process, from initial concept through to final product (including case study documentation, the production of training materials, or the improvement of existing organisational tools). Tanya has worked extensively with WASH actors, developing all materials for Oxfam’s Sani Tweaks approach, in addition to suites of tools for their Community Engagement Model and Community Perception Tracker. She also coordinated and produced the documentation of Uganda’s WASH CRRF process for UNHCR.

After several years working in-house as part of Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Team, Tanya founded Ibex Ideas –an independent communications agency that specialises in visual communications for the aid sector. London-based but internationally mobile, she and her vast network of creatives continue to produce communications tools for the sector, including most recently for the Global WASH Cluster, the German Toilet Organization, the Danish Refugee Council, IFRC, and Oxfam in Tajikistan.

Tanya holds a Master of Arts from Cambridge University and a Master of Laws from the University of Law (London). She is also a qualified solicitor. She speaks English, French and Spanish.

Country Experience: Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Yemen.

Lama is a water and sanitation specialist with more than 20 years of experience working in low-middle income countries and fragile states, including over 10 years of experience as an environmental consultant. Her experience ranges from humanitarian crisis, particularly in conflict areas, to protracted crisis and long-term development in the MENA region.

As an environmental scientist and consultant, Lama specialised in the environmental impact assessment of large-scale development projects in urban and rural contexts, and has worked for many years in the field of solid waste management. She also has considerable experience in environmental advocacy and campaigns.

Working in the field of water and sanitation, Lama focuses on transitional and sustainable development, strategic programme development, research, support to utilities, management of construction contracts, and capacity building.

Lama received a BS in agricultural engineering and an MS in Environmental Sciences from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, where her thesis focused on the environmental analysis of urban and peri-urban agricultural systems along coastal zones. She has also extensively researched resilience mechanisms of large scale social-ecological systems.

Country Experience: Algeria, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, South Sudan, South Africa, Uganda, United Kingdom.

Angus is a specialist in water resource management, water supply and sanitation. He has more than eight years professional engineering experience, which includes over six years working exclusively in low-income countries and fragile states. His experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post emergency planning and long-term development.

Angus has worked predominantly in African and Asian regions, focusing on WASH and water governance. He has experience implementing and managing humanitarian projects in the WASH sector across multiple countries. He also has design experience, as well as having undertaken several research projects and published external publications for water and sanitation innovations.Angus has also consulted with other humanitarian organisations such as UNHCR on the Global Water Networks project.

Angus received a Masters in Civil Engineering from Edinburgh University for his thesis on Household Water Treatment in Cambodia. He is also proficient in GIS, CAD and hydraulic modelling tools.

Country Experience: Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Myanmar, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan (Darfur), South Sudan, Tajikistan, Uganda, United Kingdom, Vietnam.

St John is a freelance consultant specialising in water resources management, water supply and sanitation. He has more than 20 years professional engineering experience, including over 15 years working in low-income countries and fragile states. His experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post emergency planning and long-term development.

St John has worked for several Africa-focused organisations, concentrating on WASH and water governance. He has extensively researched the intersection between the role of citizen science and Government agencies in natural resource management. He was a member of the UK’s Institution of Civil Engineers Appropriate Development Panel and has worked as a senior adviser to Presidential Delivery Teams, national governments, private sector companies and humanitarian agencies, from the United Nations and INGO sectors.

St John also has a long history of working in both rural and urban contexts, including major engineering projects, flood alleviation, climate resilience and supporting water utility and institutional reforms. In the course of his career, St John worked on the Heathrow Terminal 5 Twin Rivers Diversion, which won a CEEQUAL Excellent Achievement Award.

St John received a PhD from Cranfield University for his thesis on Water Resource Management in Fragile and Conflict Affected States. In addition to his PhD, St John holds a BEng (Hons) Degree in Civil and Water Engineering from the University of Hertfordshire and a MSc Water Management from Cranfield University. He is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Water and Environmental Manager.

Wendy is a social protection specialist with extensive, food security, resilience and cash experience. She has worked with countries and regions in influencing policy and accountability for improved access to social protection. Through her technical and strategic leadership, she has assisted countries in the fundraising, designing, implementation, monitoring, research and learning of social protection programs to promote the adoption of social protection lens in humanitarian responses. She has over10years experience managing and implementing humanitarian responses in food security, cash, livelihoods, DRR, WASH, provision of safety nets, working with governments in strengthening social protection systems, promoting access to safety nets, social protection accountability, advocacy and lobbing for access to social protection.

Thematic expertise: Social Protection, food security, livelihoods, disaster risk reduction, cash and voucher assistance.

Academic background: Masters in DRR and BSc Hons in AgricultureGeographical coverage: Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Occupied Palestine Territory.

Emily Farr is Oxfam’s Emergency Food Security and Vulnerable Livelihoods (EFSVL) Advisor, providing technical leadership at the global level.

She has worked for almost 20 years to influence global policy and practice in food security and livelihoods and as part of humanitarian responses to food crises and other emergencies across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Emily's areas of focus have included food security analysis, program quality, gender, and monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) in cash-based programs and in other types of EFSVL response modalities.

Emily has represented Oxfam and served in various functions within the global food security community, including as Chair of the IPC (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification) Global Steering Committee, a member of the Food Security Information Network (FSIN) Steering Committee, a member of the Global Food Security Cluster (gFSC) Strategic Advisory Group (SAG), and as a member of the World Bank Famine Action Mechanism (FAM) technical working group. Emily has an M.S. in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition from Tufts University and a B.S. in Geography from Penn State.

Countries of experience:  Kenya, Somalia, Iraq, Pakistan, Nigeria, Greece, Ethiopia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Pacific Islands.

Kristin is an innovative humanitarian leader focused on cash programming and economic recovery known for her successful leadership of pilot programs and multi-disciplinary technical teams.

Since 2009 Kristin has worked across humanitarian programs to facilitate locally led recovery and resilience- including work on cash and market-based programming, livelihoods, and advocacy.  Kristin can effectively collate ideas and lead consultative processes to set a strategic vision and bring innovation into practice. Achievements due to an emphasis on collaboration, local leadership, networks, partnerships, and alliances as tools that facilitate change.  Kristin has a proven track record on developing and translating strategies into action plans and representing work in high-level forums, including the (previous) Grand Bargain Cash Workstream, CaLP, and the CCD.

Kristin’s areas of interest include anticipatory action and preparedness, and in safe and inclusive digital responses with the overarching aim of economic resilience for communities affected by crisis.

Kristin holds a MSc from the London School of Economics in Population and Development, and a BA in Economics from Oxford Brookes University.

Country Experience: Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Myanmar, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan (Darfur), South Sudan, Tajikistan, Uganda, United Kingdom, Vietnam.

Tsehaye is a specialist in water supply, sanitation, and water resources management. He has more than 13 years professional engineering experience in low-income countries and fragile states. His experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post emergency planning and long-term development.

Tsehaye has worked in humanitarian-focused organisations for several years, focusing on water, sanitation and hygiene programmes, as well as water governance. He has been extensively involved in planning and implementation of water and sanitation projects related to refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and long-term development projects in African and Middle Eastern countries. He also has a long history of working in both rural and urban contexts, covering major engineering projects, water supply, climate resilience and supporting water utilities.

Tsehaye has worked with various international humanitarian organisations, including the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and currently, Oxfam GB. Prior to working in the humanitarian sector, Tsehaye was an educator in Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Ethiopia.

Tsehaye holds a BSc in Irrigation and Water Resource Engineering from the University of Arbaminch. He also holds an MSc in Civil Engineering (specialising in Hydraulic Engineering) from Addis Ababa University, where he conducted his research thesis on Hydrological Modelling in Ungauged Water Catchments of the Blue Nile Basin in Ethiopia.

Country Experience: Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia.

Ed is a specialist in international logistics and supply chain management. He has over 30 years’ professional experience, including 20 years working exclusively in low-income countries and fragile states.

Ed’s experience includes many years in senior leadership roles in the private sector, in low-income countries across Africa, including running a 3PL, a manufacturing business, a multi-modal transport business and a freight forwarder. Since 2014, he has been located in the UK and now runs the Oxfam Supply Centre, supplying specialist WASH equipment to both Oxfam programmes and other NGOs.

Ed received a BSc (Hons) in Physics from the University of Southampton in 1988 and qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant with CIMA in 1993.

Country Experience: Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Nigeria, Palestine, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Yemen and Greece.

Nina is a senior expert on gender and gender-based violence (GBV), with more than twelve years of experience in gender and GBV mainstreaming and programming, working to protect and empower women and girls in humanitarian settings.

Nina’s approach to gender and GBV is informed by listening to women and girls in conflict contexts, including Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Nigeria, Palestine, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen. This approach is coupled with drawing on evidence and inter-agency guidance and tools from organisations she has represented, including serving as Global GBV Adviser with International Medical Corps, Global Head of Gender Equality in Humanitarian with Save the Children, Gender and Governance Manager with Oxfam in Afghanistan, Gender andProtection Lead with Oxfam in Greece, and Regional Gender Adviser with Oxfam in the Middle East and North Africa. Nina also served on the IASC Gender Reference Group, IASC GBV Guidelines Reference Group, and GBV Call to Action.

Nina has significant experience in addressing gender inequalities within the work place and at household, community and national levels. Her success has been through capacity building, strategy, tool and guidance development, research (including gender analysis and gender audits), and programme design, implementation and monitoring.

Nina has additional experience at grassroots level as co-founder of Action for Women, a growing women’s rights organisation based in Greece for refugees and asylum-seekers, women’s protection and empowerment in Greece.

Nina holds a Masters degree in Human Rights from London School of Economics and Political Science, where she focused on conflict, women’s rights and international law.

Country Experience: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, Tajikistan, Uganda.

John is a WASH specialist with experience leading and supporting humanitarian and sustainable development WASH interventions since 2006.

During his career, John has worked for non-governmental organisations, WASH start-up enterprises, and as a consultant. He has worked in a range of capacities, managing programmes, leading research initiatives, and advising technical teams.

John’s area of expertise is in WASH systems strengthening, including market-based programming. Sustainability is a focus of his work, establishing financial and management models to enable the long-term provision of services.

John is a specialist in sanitation, wastewater treatment, and faecal sludge management. He has designed innovative solutions, including household sanitation in flood-prone areas in Cambodia, decentralised treatment facilities in Nepal, and the development of a large-scale faecal sludge treatment plant for refugees in Bangladesh. As a practitioner of user-centred design, John has helped develop new water and sanitation products.

John received his BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, where he specialised in environmental engineering. He maintains a broad knowledge of the WASH sector, and enjoys following emerging trends, technologies and approaches. John is based in Kathmandu, Nepal.

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.

Anjil is a specialist in disaster risk management and water supply and sanitation. He has more than 10 years of professional engineering experience, including 7 years of work as a lecturer in an engineering college, and more than 8 years of working experience in WASH and disaster risk reduction.

Anjil’s experience is expansive and he has held a variety of positions, including: thematic head for a 4 million GBP per annum WASH portfolio in Nepal, lead writer/concept creator spearheading business development to secure funding worth 3.6 million GBP, CEO for aprivate company, leading two multi-organisation consortiums, lecturing, and being a young thought leader in the water sector. Anjil has also led two national level research projects, published 3 research papers on WASH and is an active member of Oxfam’s global research network.

His experience includes working for humanitarian crisis and response during the Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal, different scales of floods and landslides, and post emergency planning and long-term development. He has spent the past 5 years focusing on innovation at the ground level and identifying areas of innovation in system design of water supply, micro-hydro, and linking WASH with markets for sustainability. He also has experience of using different hydraulic and hydrological modelling software like GIS, HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, and basic professional knowledge in remote sensing. He has capacity to perform sensitivity analysis for WASH activities, to advise action for sustainability. Anjil also has a long history of working in both rural and urban contexts, including major engineering projects, flood mitigation projects, disaster risk management, water resource management, water supply, sanitation and also support for the WASH sector in institutional reforms through innovative business models.

Anjil received his Master’s degree from Tribhuvan University for his thesis on a Monitoring Tool for User Friendliness of Emergency Pit Latrine: A Case Study of Tudikhel Camp after 2015 Gorkha Earthquake. His thesis is a result of his engagement in the camp after the Nepal earthquake as an Oxfam staff member.

Country Experience: Angola, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Iraq, Malawi, Moldova, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Poland, Zimbabwe, Romania, Rwanda, and Zambia.

Nibona is a specialist in logistics and supply, with more than 15 years of international humanitarian experience, including working exclusively in low-income countries and fragile contexts.

Nibona is well versed in humanitarian crisis response, having worked extensively in major emergency response, post emergency planning and long-term development programmes. He has worked for several Africa-focused organisations, assisting with disaster responses, fighting poverty, sanitation/hygiene, refugees, and displaced people. He also worked as a consultant to community clubs focusing on child-to-child approaches in water, hygiene, and sanitation programmes in Mozambique. He has an excellent track record of managing supply and logistics operations, advising teams, and supporting programmes that are struggling to deliver against their targets.

Prior to working in the humanitarian sector, Nibona served in the private sector on construction projects, including roads and systems for water supply and sewage treatment.

Note that Nibona has participated in many short trainings and one of the trainings was through WFP-led Logistics Cluster - Logistics Response Team Training (LRT), considered as one of the largest scale humanitarian simulations in logistics. He also participated in safeguarding, safe programming and Data protection training.

Nibona holds a diploma in Industrial Engineering from ITS, the University of Burundi. He speaks English, French and Portuguese.

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.

Country Experience: Angola, Bangladesh, Grenada, Guatemala, Kenya, Kosovo, Mozambique, South Sudan, United Kingdom.

Justin is a specialist in water supply and sanitation, with more than 20 years of professional experience, including over 10 years working in low-income countries and fragile states. His experience includes humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post emergency planning and long-term development.

Since 2000, Justin has worked for Oxfam GB as a field engineer on many assignments, focusing on water, sanitation, team leading and staff training.

For the last ten years, Justin has worked for the Oxfam Supply Centre and been responsible for selection of equipment, quality control, innovation and product development. He has also advocated for wider training in WASH principles for programme managers and logistics staff, which led to development and delivery of the ‘WASH for Logs’ course at the Supply Centre in the UK and at Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh.

Justin also has experience working in water supply in the UK. He worked with the water distribution team at Bristol Water, focusing on the planning and implementing of repairs and maintenance of reservoirs, pumping stations, and the distribution pipe network.Prior to that he also worked in Guatemala for a small NGO, building gravity flow systems in remote rural communities.

Justin holds a joint Honours degree from Bristol University, UK, in Geography/Geology.

Country Experience: Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

During her 21-year professional career in the humanitarian and development sectors, Siobhan has been a global coordinator, senior manager, technical adviser, head of mission, programme manager, consultant, lecturer, trainer and facilitator. For the past 15years, Siobhan’s focus has been on designing, developing and delivering gender, diversity inclusion, protection and gender-based violence prevention, mitigation and response programmes and trainings. Siobhan has conducted this work in numerous countries, working as a cross-cutting issue specialist in multi-disciplinary intra-and inter-organisational teams; this includes the United Nations, the ICRC, the IFRC and a number of NGOs. Consequently, Siobhan has acquired broad-ranging and comprehensive gender skills and experience.

Siobhan has a Master’s in Equality Studies from the University College Dublin, where her thesis focused on addressing gender-based violence in conflict.