Joseph Nhan-O'Reilly Email & Phone Number

London, England Metropolitan Area

In 2019 I co-founded the International Parliamentary Network for Education (IPNEd) with Stephen Twigg MP. IPNEd's mission is to grow and deepen political understanding of and commitment to delivering SDG4: 'inclusive and equitable quality education for all’. IPNEd• works with individual parliamentarians supporting them as policy makers, legislators, and advocates• supports collective action and advocacy by parliamentarians working together• encourages collaboration between parliamentarians and wider stakeholders, building broad alliances that support sustained political commitment to and leadership on education• brings together parliamentarians from across their regions to learn, share ideas, and agree on joint and individual action• facilitates the collaboration of parliamentarians globally to deliver co-ordinated messaging, calls for action, and improved accountability at international fora.

London, United Kingdom

I was appointed by the United Kingdom Secretary of State for International Development to the UK National Commission for UNESCO. I have responsibility for supporting UK engagement with and participation in UNESCO, including representing the UK at UNESCO General Conference and other official meetings, especially on education and with a particular focus on delivering the Education 2030 Agenda.

New York, New York, United States

I worked with the Senior Leadership Team and Executive Committee of Education Cannot Wait to develop the organisation's second Strategic Plan which covers the period 2023-2026. This included facilitating a series of strategic planning retreats, designing and analysing a series of surveys and co-drafting the plan with the leadership team for approval by the High Level Steering Commitee.The plan describes how ECW will build on its proven model, while catalyzing new solutions in response to growing needs. The plan embodies the 'New Way of Working' - facilitating strengthened collaboration of a wide range of stakeholders to achieve collective education outcomes. It sets out ECW’s ambitious results for children and adolescents, and articulates the strategic objectives, programmatic priorities and MEL approach to deliver that ambition. It also provides an overview of ECW’s core functions and investment windows, and the accompanying Theory of Change and Results Framework.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

I was the founding chair of the Global Book Alliance, an international Alliance involving multiple stakeholders working to transform book development, procurement and distribution in order to ensure that no child is without books. The Alliance's mission is to guarantee that children everywhere have the books and learning materials they need to learn to read and read to learn. More at www.globalbookalliance.org

Greater New York City Area

I helped design and establish Education Cannot Wait: the global fund for education in emergencies and served on its founding Executive Committee. ECW is the first global fund to prioritise education in humanitarian action. It aims to play a groundbreaking role in ushering in a more collaborative approach to ensure every crisis-affected child and young person is in school and learning. I played a leadership role in the development of ECW's flagship Uganda Multi-Year Resilience Plan (MYRP) which shaped the creation of what became ECW's principal funding modality. I also developed ECW's first Acceleration Facility Strategy and supported all aspects of ECW's operationalisation and governance, including successive resource mobilisation efforts.

London, United Kingdom

After three years in Asia I returned to Save the Children's London headquarters where I was responsible for education policy analysis and development and for designing and implementing global advocacy strategies. I led our global campaign on refugee education which included successful influencing the UN, donors and multilateral agencies, country level programming and policy development and public campaigning. I have played a leading role in establishing two new multilateral education initiatives, Education Cannot Wait the world's first global fund for education in emergencies and the Global Book Alliance of which I am the chair.

Bangkok, Thailand

In late 2012 I moved from Save the Children headquarters in London to our Asia regional office in Bangkok where I was responsible for increasing the scale and improving the quality of our education portfolio across the Asia region. I designed and won funding for new programmes in Asia including new large scale programming in Myanmar and work with refugees and migrants in Thailand.I led Save the Children UK's global work on learning outcomes with a focus on literacy. This included designing the International Children's Book Initiative the aim of which is to close the global children's book gap. I also lead on the implementation of First Read, the approach I developed, designed to support families with preschool aged children learn together with a focus on building children's emergent literacy and numeracy skills. I secured funding for First Read programmes from Prudential in Cambodia and the Philippines.

London, United Kingdom

I worked with a global team of education advisers and programme managers to develop and grow our efforts to give the world’s out of school children, especially those caught up in conflicts and emergencies, a quality basic education. I grew and led a team of specialists both in the UK and around the world who provide technical assistance and support to country programmes in the design, development, implementation and evaluation of education projects with a global annual value in excess of £40 million.I led development and resource mobilization efforts which saw significant forward growth in the education portfolio including 30 million GBP of funding for girls education from DfID, a new strategic initiative from Comic Relief in support of early grade reading in Rwanda and new corporate funding for First Read our innovative new approach to supporting early learning. I also led the development of 'Born to Learn', Save the Children UK's Education Strategy that formed part of Ambition 2015, the organisation's 2012 - 2015 Strategic Plan.

London, United Kingdom

I provided leadership of the Global Campaign for Education UK's policy development and influencing work including engagement with the UK Parliament, Secretaries of State and Ministers for International Development and officials at the Department for International Development (DfID). I led GCE UK's engagement in the development of the last three DFID education strategies including providing input directly to responsible ministers.I authored key reports that drove GCE UK's advocacy and campaigning including, 'The Final Countdown. Achieving quality primary education for all by 2015', 'Education for all: A call for UK action' and 'From rhetoric to results: closing the global education gap for the world's women and girls.'

Washington D.C. Metro Area

The Global Partnership for Education is the only multilateral body dedicated to helping low-income countries achieve free, universal basic education.In 2011 I was elected to represent Northern civil society and international non-government organisations on the first board of the newly constituted Global Partnership for Education. I served on the GPE's strategic planning working group which produced the Partnership's first strategy. I also Co-Chaired, along with H.E. Farooq Wardak, Afghanistan's then Minister of Education, the Partnership's working group on conflict and fragile states which developed an ambitious work plan for increasing the Partnership's support to education in those settings.In March 2013 I was re-elected by Northern civil society and INGOs for a second term.At the beginning of 2014 I was appointed Chair of the Partnership's new Strategy & Policy Committee and led various initiatives for the board, including GPE’s Strategic Plan 2015-2020, an Independent Review of the entire Partnership, a review of GPE's hosting arrangement with the World Bank, the development of its Gender Equality Policy & Strategy, its Results Framework, Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy (2015-2020), and GPE's new strategy for supporting advocacy and accountability.

London

I worked at ATL the union for education professionals across the UK. I led the development and implementation of 'Our global future: ATL's international policy and strategy', which involved supporting the professional development and global awareness of members, working with education unions overseas to help achieve their goals, contributing to the global dimensions of educational policy and supporting member engagement and activism on global issues.

Book Aid International supports literacy, education and development in sub-Saharan Africa by increasing access to books and information. At Book Aid I led the development of a new progamming strategy and a significant expansion in the organisation's education focussed partners and projects. I authored a policy on the role of books and learning materials in supporting primary education and developed the 'Bringing Books to Life' series of manuals and wrote 'Starting and managing a book collection' and 'Using books in the classroom'.

Brighton, United Kingdom

I provided strategic policy advice across the international secretariat and to Alliance linking organisations and partners working in over 30 developing countries and led the organisation’s policy and influencing work on the rights and interests of vulnerable populations.I developed and implemented a policy and influencing strategy for the Gates Foundation funded Frontiers Prevention Project. I conceived and managed a multi-country participatory photo project involving communities highly affected by HIV/AIDS from India, Ecuador and Cambodia, which led to the publication of Unheard Voices, Hidden Lives.I helped secure the commitment to universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care made at the UN High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS in 2006 and played a lead role in advising UNAIDS on its implementation.Convened the first ever pre-conference satellite event at an International AIDS Conference dedicated specifically to gay and other men who have sex with men. The event was attended by over 800 delegates, was addressed by UN Under-Secretary General and UNAIDS Director, Peter Piot and led to the establishment of the Global Forum on MSM & HIV.