Led skills and capabilities building for the Humanitarian Innovation Fund. Working collaboratively with colleagues, grantees, and external stakeholders to document, develop, decolonise, and deliver accessible, context-sensitive, and future-aware technical resources. Including tools and processes for managing and enabling innovation within humanitarian contexts, through supportive cultures and environments.

Highlights #

• Reported to and liaised with statutory and institutional donors FCDO and Dutch MFA
• Coordinated and delivered non-financial grantee support, incl. convenings, workshops, and presentations
• Managed researchers exploring the present and future needs of humanitarian innovators and innovation managers
• Managed and co-created ethics resources with McGill/McMaster universities and participatory resources with MIT’s D-Lab
• Managed FCDO-funded grantees exploring how inclusive disaster preparedness can enable inclusive humanitarian response, for people with disabilities and older people