David Archer Email & Phone Number

London

Connecting ActionAid's global work on economic justice and public services, climate justice and women's rights. Building collaborative leadership with colleagues from 45 countries to support system change for economic and climate justice. Operationalising ActionAid's human rights based approach. In 2022 I was the Convenor of the Finance Track for the Heads.

London, United Kingdom

• Managing programme and policy specialists linked to all of ActionAid’s strategic objectives – from land rights and livelihoods to democratic governance, youth, education, resilience and women’s rights.
• Supporting the Tax Power campaign – linking with the international trade union movement, writing policy papers on tax and education,
• Collating and writing People’s Action in Practice: ActionAid’s Human Rights Based Approach Resource Book – the definitive reference point for all… Show more
• Collating and writing People’s Action in Practice: ActionAid’s Human Rights Based Approach Resource Book – the definitive reference point for all ActionAid’s rights-based programme, policy and campaigning work.
• Overseeing holistic programme quality and helping countries make connections between local, national and international programmes,
• Establishing and supporting International Platforms on ActionAid core mission objectives - to build collaborative leadership; and developing Communities of Practice to generate and share learning.

• Supporting civil society campaigning on basic education at national level across Africa, Asia and Latin America, and at regional and international levels.
• Building a strategic partnership between ActionAid and Education International – building trust between teacher unions and rights-based NGOs.
• Supporting programme quality and a rights-based approach to education (including producing key resources like the Guide for Practitioners and Activists) and facilitating the evaluation of… Show more
• Supporting programme quality and a rights-based approach to education (including producing key resources like the Guide for Practitioners and Activists) and facilitating the evaluation of ActionAid’s education work.
• Developing and supporting the evolution of the Reflect approach to adult learning (which has now won 5 UN International Literacy Prizes and has spread to 500 organisations in 70 countries);
• Writing reports and briefings on education policy and practice e.g. on the impact of the IMF on education spending; on the status of teachers; on civil society roles, on girls’ and women’s education and the impact of.

• Coordinating long-term integrated development programmes in Peru and Ecuador.
• Establishing new long-term programmes in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Bolivia.
• Advising education programmes in 15 countries across Africa and Asia.
• Co-ordinating the UK NGO Education Forum (30 NGOs working on international education brought together for the first time).
• Chairing the Board of the Central America Human Rights Committees (1992-1998), overseeing the secretariat of 8 staff… Show more
• Chairing the Board of the Central America Human Rights Committees (1992-1998), overseeing the secretariat of 8 staff in an inter-agency initiative; inc. championing the campaign for Rigoberta Menchu’s Nobel Peace.

Pgce, English And Drama

Philosophy And English, Ba Hons

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