Sara Pavanello Email & Phone Number

Rome, Latium, Italy

Málaga Area, Spain

Examples of selected publications and assignments:• Integrating Disaster Risk Management and Social Protection: mapping Early Warning Systems and their linkages with social protection programmes in the Sahel. Working paper. World Bank (2020, Team leader)• WFP Evaluation of the Resilience and Livelihoods Programme in Lebanon (2019, Team Leader)• WFP Evaluation of the Update of WFP’s Safety Net Policy (2019, Team member• Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) Performance Review of DFID’s partnership with civil society organisations (2018, Team member)• Multipurpose Cash and sectoral outcomes. A review of evidence and learning. UNHCR (2018, Team member)• Users’ experience of technological systems and delivery models of humanitarian cash transfers, Ground Truth and HPG/ODI for DFID (2018, Team member)• Building evidence on operational models for cash transfer programmes in Greece and Nigeria, The Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) (2018, Team member)• Developing Oxfam International’s humanitarian cash strategy to scale up cash-based responses worldwide, Oxfam (2017, Team Leader)• Effects of cash transfers on community interactions. Article published in The Journal of Development Studies. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2015.1134774 (2016, Team leader)• FAO Country Evaluation Programme in West Bank and Gaza (2016, Team Member)• FAO Country Evaluation of the Resilience Programme in Somalia (2014-15, Team Member)

London, United Kingdom

Humanitarian research, policy and technical advice to donors, NGOs, and UN agencies on thematic areas of expertiseAssisting or leading the writing of technical and working papers, policy briefs, research methodologies, evidence reviews, tenders and expressions of interest. Planning (including designing research methodology, research questions, fieldwork plans etc.) and budgeting research projects. Providing leadership and mentoring to local researchers and consultants recruited to assist with research projects. Working as part of the HPG team to support the group's research agenda and common goals, including peer reviewing research outputs; sharing ideas, contacts and experiences; representing ODI in meetings, conferences, workshops; disseminating research findings at public affair engagements.Examples of assignments and publications:- Technical support to ECHO-funded ‘Regional Resilience Enhancement Against DroughtProgramme’, CARE International (2009-2013, Lead Researcher). Provided technicalsupport to CARE’s humanitarian response in the pastoralist border areas of Kenya-Ethiopia,including research on cross-border approaches to improve resilience of pastoralistscommunities, baseline study on livestock marketing, analysis of institutional arrangementsaround cross-border natural resources management.- Research support to DFID-funded Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA)consortium, HPG/ODI (2010-2011, Team Member) Researched the contribution of disasterrisk reduction, social protection, and livelihood approaches to adaptive capacity and led thedesign of the research framework.- Research project ‘Displacement, migration and urbanisation’ (2009 – 2013, Teammember). Developed the research methodology, led research and report writing of casestudies in Amman, Damascus, Nairobi, and Port Sudan, presented case studies findings atseveral workshops and roundtables.

London, United Kingdom

Reported to the Global Head of the Financial Institutions Group acted as senior liaison with bank managers and high profile clients on mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructuring transactionsDrafting technical documents, attending weekly meetings and preparing meeting notes Working in close liaison with the Events Management Department to ensure the smooth running of internal and external events such as workshops and roadshows

Msc, Development Management, Distinction

Bsc, Economics And Marketing, Magna Cum Laude