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United Nations Human RightsProgramme Coordinator, UN Joint Programme on Human Rights
Feb. 2023 - Oct. 2024Manila, National Capital Region, PhilippinesLeading the UN's Joint Programme for Human Rights in the Philippines as their P4 Programme Coordinator
Andrew Pearlman Development ConsultingIndependent Consultant - International Development and Humanitarian Affairs
Aug. 2022 - Feb. 2023Manila, National Capital Region, PhilippinesI have now left the British Council and am working as an independent consultant specialising in humanitarian affairs, international development, strategic planning and theory of change work for the international development and humanitarian sectors
British CouncilDirector of Society, East Asia
Jul. 2019 - Aug. 2022Metro Manila, Philippines
OxfamProgramme Director
Sep. 2018 - Jan. 2019Yangon, Myanmar
Department for International Development (DFID)Humanitarian Adviser
Jul. 2017 - Mar. 2018
Self employedHumanitarian and Resilience Specialist
Feb. 2017 - Aug. 2018Manila
Concern WorldwideCountry Director
Nov. 2016 - Feb. 2017NepalLeading Concern's mission in Nepal focusing on earthquake recovery programming across four districts (Gorkha, Dhading, Sindhuli and Dolakha). The country programme focuses on school reconstruction, school and community based WASH and livelihoods programming.
Folkekirkens Nødhjælp (DanChurchAid)Emergency Team Leader (Nepal Earthquake)
Jun. 2015 - May. 2016Kathmandu, NepalLeading a multinational multi-organisational team to respond to the the April and May 2015 Earthquakes in Nepal. Managing around USD 7.5 million of response funding and coordinating a team of technical specialists and national partners to provide WASH, Shelter and livelihood support to those impacted by the earthquakes and their aftershocks. We supplied assistance to over 100,000 people across four districts (Bakhtapur, Lalitpur, Gorkha and Dhading) that have been badly affected by the earthquake. The programme covers WASH (emergency and permanant water scheme and latrine construction as well as hygiene promotion), cash for livelihoods, cash for shelter and shelter technical assistance as well as psychosocial support. The response involved international and national staff from Danish Church Aid, Norwegian Church Aid, ICCO and Church of Sweden working within the ACT Alliance as well as five local implementing partners.
Action Against Hunger | ACF-USAInterim Country Director
Jan. 2015 - Apr. 2015South SudanWorking first and Deputy Country Director (January to February) and then as Interim Country Director, I led ACF in South Sudan in providing life saving nutrition services, emergency response and long term programming on WASH and Food and Livelihood Security to some of the most vulnerable people in South Sudan. The role involved leading the country programme, working - with the programmes team - to set strategic direction of the mission and managing a country team comprising approximately 150 national and international staff with an annual budget of around USD 6 million per year.
Health Poverty ActionProgramme Manager
Sep. 2013 - Sep. 2014Hargeisa, SomalilandManaging around USD 3 million of health and nutrition programming based out of the Maroodi Jeex (capital) region of Somaliland. The Maroodi Jeex Programme focuses on sexual and reproductive rights (including FGM), health system strengthening and improving maternal and child health outcomes for some of the most vulnerable communities and nutrition services. The role includes managing a team of approximately 25 staff and across five departments and assisting the Country Director on the development of new proposals.
ACTEDRegional DRR Project Manager for Central Asia
May. 2012 - Aug. 2013Khojund, TajikistanManaging a Dipecho funded Disaster Risk Reduction project in Tajikistan and Krygyzstan. I manage a cross border team of 23 direct indirect employees across both countries and four bases. The role has included every aspect of project management from set up to close down, reporting and donor management to field level implementation. I have also worked as a DRR focal point for ACTED globally, remotely supporting the development of DRR projects in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India and Cambodia. The project itself works with 34 cross border communities and local government to build disaster resilience through a mixture of classic CBDRM approaches (HVAs, mitigation works, simulation drills) and through the establishment of cross border structures for disaster risk management for local authorities. The project also has a significant GIS mapping and component and includes mapping at the community level (GIS maps for the community in each of the 34 villages) and mapping all of the ten year data nationally for the Ministries of Emergency situations in both countries. The project has also ensured training for school teachers, medical centre workers and local government officials on disaster risk management. This work focusses on natural resource management and land use planning as a way of reducing risks, and therefore uses a mutli-sectoral approach to enhancing resilience.
Folkekirkens Nødhjælp (DanChurchAid)DIPECHO Consortium Coordinator
Jul. 2011 - Jan. 2012Phnom Penh, CambodiaLeading a consortium consisting ActionAid, DCA and Concern, the role involved both coordinating the responses to the 2011 SE Asia floods and leading a three partner Euro 1.3 million DIPECHO consortium. The focus of the 2011 flood response was predominantly on the distribution of WASH supplies (water purification tablets and water filters) and food distribution to the large number people displaced by the worst flooding to affect Cambodia in a generation. The role also involved leading on the preparation of emergency grants to various donors including the ACT Alliance and ECHO. My role was to ensure the effective field delivery of project goals which included a mixture of CDRM approaches, the construction of community safe hills, the provision of rice banks for disaster food security and ensuring the preparedness of provincial government for disaster response. The role also involved all aspect of financial management and donor coordination on the project as well as coordinating all INGOs active in disaster resilience through the Joint Activities Group (JAG). The effective functioning of this group proved essential in ensuring effective emergency scale up during the floods.
Andrew Pearlman DevelopmentFounder and Senior Consultant
Oct. 2009 - Jan. 2012Cambodia, BangladeshI worked on a number of major projects to enhance community, local government and national level disaster resilience to a range of natural and man-made hazards for INGOs, national level government and the UN. Examples of the work undertaken inlcue: Save the Children Bangladesh Training Programme Design and Strategy Development:
Developing field tested toolkits for creating Youth defined solutions to emergency preparedness and response and indentified youth defined new entry points for DRR. The focus was on empowering women and ensuring that female adolescents could act as leaders in their communities to promote the solutions they identified. The resulting toolkit is now in use by several major national NGOs in Bangladesh. The role also involved designing Save the Children’s DRR Strategy Oxfam GB - Cambodia Technical Assistance to the Royal Government of Cambodia’s National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) to sensitise the whole of government to the ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER) and integrate its disaster management processes into the 2010-15 AADMER Work Programme. The work prioritised a whole society and mutli-sectoral approach National Committee for Disaster Management (Cambodian Government) Supporting the Royal Government of Cambodia to develop sub-national disaster response structures. The work would create the overarching emergency preparedness and response strategy for the Royal Government of Cambodia
the UN CambodiaConsultant, Coordination - UNRCO
May. 2009 - Sep. 2009Working with senior management across the UN system to review, update and improve the UN’s Pandemic Influenza Contingency plans and programmatic response. Playing an important pandemic preparation and response role as part of the UN Crisis Management Team (UNCMT) and helping to improve national pandemic response by working through the National Committee for IEC. Liaising with critical donors and assisting in the review of the Royal Government of Cambodia’s Avian and Human Influenza preparedness Plan and the UN-Government Joint Framework for Pandemic Influenza. Organising key forums for the Pharmacists Association of Cambodia and several roundtables for pandemic preparation.
University of SussexMA Social Development Student
Jan. 2004 - Dec. 2005Specialising in issues of governance, particularly urban governance for developing contexts.
University of YorkBA (Hons) History and Politics
Jan. 2001 - Dec. 2004YorkStudying History and Politics BA degree at the University of York
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