Steering Committee
The Steering Committee provides leadership and retains an oversight function of the revie process; individual members provide input and feedback at different stages, depending on their area of expertise. The following are members of the Steering Committee as of July 2009, listed here in alphabetical order by family name:
Dr Ivone Atar Adaha Independent
Marie-Luise Ahlendorf works in the Global Programmes Department at Transparency International in Berlin. She is also contributing to the Sphere Handbook revision. Marie-Luise can be contacted at mahlendorf@transparency.org.
David Bainbridge is the Disaster Management Director of Tearfund. He can be contacted at: David.Bainbridge@tearfund.org.
Niels Bentzen is Policy Advisor in the Policy and Programme Support Unit of the Danish Refugee Council. Niels can be contacted at Niels.Bentzen@drc.dk.
Michelle Brown is , Save the Children UK
Steve Darvill has been the Humanitarian Aid Adviser to the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) since October 2007. He is responsible for reviewing humanitarian, fragile states and peace-conflict themes within development co-operation systems of DAC member states. He recently authored a synthesis report to the DAC on composite findings from ten humanitarian peer reviews measuring progress against the collective donor commitments under the Good Humanitarian Donorship initiative. Prior to joining the DAC, he worked for the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) for nearly 12 years – most recently as the Humanitarian/Peace-Conflict Adviser. He worked extensively on crisis situations in the Asia and the Pacific and oversighted development of the AusAID Peace Conflict & Development Learning Package. Before joining AusAID, Steve worked for eight years with NGOs on development and humanitarian programmes in Africa and the Middle East. Steve originates from United Kingdom and migrated to Australia in 1984. He holds a Masters Degree in International and Community Development (Deakin University, Australia).
Jan Pieter Lingen joined the Steering Committee driven by the complementary interests of the Working Group on Accountability for, and Audit of, Disaster-related Aid set up by the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI). He is Head of Cabinet of Maarten Engwirda at the European Court of Auditors.
Nicholas Morris, Independent
Esther Mujawayo, Independent
Yeshey Pelzom
Maria Thorin is Programme Officer in the Humanitarian Team of the Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (SIDA).
Pauline Wilson specialises in participatory evaluation and strategic planning with INGOs, local NGOs and CSO Networks. After a career in INGOs (Catholic Relief Services and ActionAid) serving in Tanzania, Rwanda, Togo, Senegal and Vietnam plus in several senior management posts at headquarters level, she has become an independent evaluator, researcher and facilitator covering programs related to social development and emergency response. A socio-political specialist by training she has carried out participatory evaluations that involved multiple stakeholders at primary level in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Nepal. Additionally she has completed organizational reviews for a number of global organizations. All of her work seeks to promote more accountable democratic development practices and encourage the use of gender and social inclusion approaches.
