Daniel Stothart

Experience

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  Kiponda Secondary School

  Jan 1998 - May 1998

  Volunteer teacher (English, Mathematics, French)

  • Taking lessons following the syllabus (own lesson plans, unsupervised). Average class size: 48. Giving private lessons; writing exams and marking homework.

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  Oxfam

  Oct 2002 - Feb 2007

  • Successfully managed ECHO €1m DRR and livelihoods recovery programme. Reported to donor, disposed of assets and reduced office from 35 staff to two. All completed as the most senior manager in the country. 69,000 beneficiaries. • Turned around late and underspent programme (32% spent at half-way point) to being fully spent with all activities completed by its closure.• Successful security management during elections, a racially tense and violent period.• Mainstreamed gender into the programme, with improvements noticed in women’s self-respect and decision-making power, and the men’s participation in disaster preparedness (previously men were very under-represented in DP).• Designed “psychosocial for men” component, considered a model by ECHO.• Successfully managed staffing issues including racial tension and sexual harassment.• Designed and managed £70,000 microenterprise and animal health training programme. Show less West Africa; Middle East, Eastern Europe and CIS; Global humanitarian responses• Designed and delivered introductory course for new staff in Yemen, covering programmes, gender and preventing sexual exploitation. Staff now feel more a part of the organisation and are aware of beneficiaries’ vulnerability to exploitation.• Rolled out new pay and benefits structure, slotting new and existing jobs into that framework. Successfully implemented without appeals.• Conducted Ghana salary review: Represented Oxfam to agencies; analysed data by job profiles, benefits analysis, total employee cost and, hard currency salary indexing. Show less

  • Humanitarian Programme Manager

    May 2006 - Feb 2007

  • Humanitarian Programme Officer

    Mar 2006 - May 2006

  • Regional Humanitarian Information Officer (Horn of Africa)

    Dec 2005 - Mar 2006

  • Regional Programme Support Officer (Central Africa)

    Aug 2005 - Dec 2005

  • Regional HR Executive

    Nov 2003 - Aug 2005

  • Humanitarian HR Administrator

    Oct 2002 - Nov 2003
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  International Rescue Committee

  Apr 2007 - Sept 2007

  Programme Coordinator

  • Co-designed refugee, community-driven reconstruction, education, protection and livelihood projects.• Renegotiated complicated contractual relationship with UNHCR.• Co-designed and facilitated the launch of inter-agency health advocacy campaign.• Successfully managed a labour dispute in a field office when country HR was unavailable.• Cover for absent Field Co-ordinators and ongoing support to newly arrived FC to facilitate his take-up of a complicated programme. Cover also for absent Gender-Based Violence Co-ordinator and Protection, Return and Reintegration Co-ordinator.• Donor reporting to US government (BPRM), UNHCR and Irish Aid. Show less

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  Oxfam

  Sept 2008 - Apr 2009

  DRR Project Manager

  • Headhunted to finish a DIPECHO DRR project in 11 communities.• Reorientated late and underspent project to meet indicators and spend 100%, including consolidation of some activities and a total budget rewrite.• Direct manager of sub-granting mitigation projects to communities, including facilitating feasibility study, protocols for financing community-driven development and M&E.• Managed staff evacuation, insecurity and disciplinary process;• Executed development project with as many activities as an emergency project at emergency project speed with a development team. Show less

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  Dan Stothart - Independent Consultant

  Jun 2009 - Jun 2009

  Independent Consultant

  Developed OFDA-funded 23-month DRR proposal, integrating DRR into community development planning cycles. Funded in full without changes.Client: Plan USA

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  Plan International

  Aug 2009 - Oct 2014

  • Lead development of regional DRM/climate change strategy for 12 countries. Countries now have programmatic orientations focussed on child protection, education and economic security in all stages of the disaster cycle;• Lead organisation of regional DIPECHO consortium in Central America, strengthening protection in DRM. Consortium selected by ECHO despite donor liquidity difficulties;• Lead disaster preparedness analysis in seven countries, personally evaluating two. Central America, DR, Peru and Bolivia are now better prepared to respond to disaster with workplans for further humanitarian capacity strengthening;• Manager of team of four (three advisers and regional DIPECHO coordinator). Show less • Technical adviser to all DRM projects (donors ECHO, OFDA, AECID and Finland, worth $6.2 million). Proposal selected by GFDRR – Plan’s first. Only six of 266 were selected;• Designed and advised project to rewrite national needs assessment tools and school safety index. Both national standards have been fully adopted by the government;• Lead Haiti 2010 earthquake assessment and reoriented initial response in Jacmel (protection, education, WASH, cash transfers);• Lead response to Hurricane Sandy, funded by ECHO including cash transfers, WASH, child protection and early childhood care in emergencies;• Evaluator for the final evaluation of El Salvador 2010-11 DIPECHO project;• Lead designer of two urban DRR consortia, both funded, total value EUR1.9 million. DM programme was Plan Global Awards design and implementation category finalist;• Lead contingency planning process and organisational capacity analysis: Plan DR now has a plan aligned with global emergency strategies for the organisation;• Positioned Plan as a leading DM player and regular invitee to the government national technical committee for DRR. Plan had previously had only one DRR project;• Regional climate change adaptation focal point for the Americas. Show less

  • Regional Disaster Risk Manager

    Jul 2013 - Oct 2014

  • National Disaster Management Adviser

    Aug 2009 - Oct 2014
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  Dan Stothart - Independent Consultant

  Oct 2014 - Apr 2015

  Independent Consultant

  Independent consultant available for assignments in disaster risk management and climate change adaptation globally. Project/proposal/strategy development, process facilitation, development of tools and training materials, facilitation of staff training processes, emergency planning, organisational emergency preparedness and change management, external evaluation and real-time evaluation particularly in humanitarian contexts.Fluent in English, Spanish and French. Based out of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.* Developed urban DIPECHO for consortium in new area focussed on shelter and protection with needs assessment and project design aligned with gender, age and resilience markers. Assessment consulted 540 people. Project created government advisory group on protection, disability and age in emergencies. Client: Oxfam Intermon. Show less

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  UN Environment Programme

  Apr 2015 - Aug 2021

  Regional Humanitarian Affairs Officer

  • UNDAC team leader 2018. Lead team of 8 to assess (MIRA) and coordinate response to oil spill;• Team leader, Ituango dam emergency, Colombia 2018. Lead technical team to assess and advise response to an unstable dam with 100,000 people at risk in context of extreme media controversy;• Leading UNEP regional response to COVID-19, focussed on health and environment in displacement contexts. Integrated into CCCM cluster, Central America humanitarian analysis (HNO);• Lead UNEP regional response to Venezuela situation together with UNHCR, mainstreaming environment into 282 projects in regional response plan, and supported operations in Brazil and Colombia. Environmental dimensions of emergency were highlighted in Global Humanitarian Overview 2020. Developed guidance for seven sectors. Multiple field deployments with UNHCR;• Negotiated UNEP response inside Venezuela with embedded staff and technical support. Developed humanitarian capacity building for agencies in four sites;• Support to 23 responses as at end 2019, including chemical spills and fires, hurricanes and mass displacement / migration, through coordination with OCHA, IOM, and UNHCR;• Incorporated environment / humanitarian issues in seven Humanitarian Needs Overviews / response plans, clarifying the environment / needs relationship to decision-makers, donors and responders;• Coordinated integration of environmental dimensions of crisis in Venezuela UNDAF;• Trainer for environmental experts deployed to emergencies and cluster coordinators. Supported development of simulation-based training with an UNDAC version under development;• Successfully advocated for inclusion of emergency risk in political decisions of Forum of Ministers. Leading intergovernmental network on environment and emergencies (17 country members to date); • Managed team career development. 50% of interns entered international cooperation in six months. Show less

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  Save the Children International

  Aug 2021 - now

  Regional Humanitarian Director

  • Mobilise SCI to respond to Haiti chronic emergencies, earthquake and displacement.• In-country support and leadership to Mexico Cat 5 Hurricane Otis first phase response;• Lead regional emergency scale-ups to El Nino, regional hunger and human mobility;• Grew portfolio, developing donor engagement leading to increased awards with ECHO, SIDA;• Integrated anticipatory action (inc. AA for conflict and for human mobility) into portfolio.• Grew regional humanitarian team, adding roles in access, info management, DRR/AA and capacity building / localisation. SC LAC can now support countries to go further and faster in response;• Support establishment of Humanitarian Leadership Academy regional centre for LAC;• Support country teams to reach hardest to reach children/areas resulting in new/increased portfolios in Haiti, Venezuela and Mexico. Show less