The team
Humanitarian Outcomes has five partners: Adele Harmer, Paul Harvey, Katherine Haver, Abby Stoddard, and Glyn Taylor. We work independently and as a team, and draw on a wider network of independent consultants and associate researchers as necessary. Adele Harmer, MSc (Econ), has worked on aid policy issues for over a decade, as both a researcher and for the Australian Government. Prior to joining Humanitarian Outcomes, Adele was a Research Fellow with the Humanitarian Policy Group in the Overseas Development Institute. She led a programme of research examining the changing architecture and financing of the international humanitarian system, as well as an ongoing study of the changing security environment for humanitarian action. Adele previously worked for the Australian Government’s international aid agency (AusAID), including as a political advisor to the Minister responsible for the aid programme. She served with the Australian Defence Force as a civilian peace monitor. She authored numerous publications on humanitarian policy issues, including the Good Humanitarian Donorship process, the role of non DAC donors in the humanitarian system, operational security issues and humanitarian reform.[Full CV]  Paul Harvey, MPhil, has worked as a researcher, consultant and aid worker. Prior to joining Humanitarian Outcomes, Paul was a Research Fellow with the Humanitarian Policy Group in the Overseas Development Institute. Recent work has included reports on cash based responses, corruption, HIV/AIDS, analysing impact, remittances and dependency in humanitarian aid. Prior to joining ODI he worked as an Emergency Coordinator for Concern Worldwide and for various NGOs as a Country Director and programme manager, including longer postings in Somalia, Sierra Leone and Kosovo.[Full CV]  Katherine Haver, MIA (international affairs), has worked at the global and field level on issues related to humanitarian policy and practice. Before joining Humanitarian Outcomes, she worked as a policy advisor for Oxfam based in DR Congo, where she authored reports on developing responses to displaced people in host families; improving the targeting of humanitarian assistance; and designing programmes to better support community self-protection mechanisms. Prior to that, she was a research associate at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation, where she contributed to independent research and policy consultations on humanitarian financing and humanitarian reform, relations between humanitarian agencies and peace operations, and the changing security environment for aid agencies.[Full CV]  Abby Stoddard, PhD, has coordinated the research programme on international humanitarian action since 2000 at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation, where she holds the title of Nonresident Fellow. Prior to that, she served as Program Director for Doctors of the World (MDM-USA), and in field and headquarters positions at CARE USA. She is the author of Humanitarian Alert: NGO Information and its Impact on US Foreign Policy (Kumarian Press, 2006), along with numerous articles, reports, and book chapters on humanitarian action, non-governmental organizations, and the U.S. foreign aid architecture.[Full CV]  Glyn Taylor, MA, has worked in a variety of headquarters and field positions, covering both aid policy and practice. Before joining Humanitarian Outcomes he worked as a deputy director and head of the advisory group for the UK Department for International Development’s Humanitarian Operations Team. This was a key role within the DFID drive to reform the humanitarian system, with a particular emphasis on financing mechanisms and UK support to OCHA and the CERF. He acted as the DFID humanitarian advisor for Darfur through 2005 and 2006. In previous years Glyn has worked extensively through the UK Government’s emergency roster, including: surge support for UN OCHA in 2004, heading the setup of the OCHA office in North Darfur in 2004; the setup of the DFID office in Afghanistan in late 2001 and field evaluations on behalf of DFID in Southern Africa and Liberia. Prior to this, he worked as country programme manager for Merlin in Sierra Leone and Afghanistan.[Full CV] |