Learning design & delivery
Humanitarian Learning Webinar Series: Humanitarian Leadership Academy
Save the Children
Managed and moderated an engaging series of webinars featuring specialists across the humanitarian sector, with a focus on engaging humanitarian professionals on a continued learning journey using polls, quizzes, pre- and post- series follow up, Q&A spaces, and peer-to-peer opportunities. This free series aimed to recognise and certify the expertise of people with lived experience of humanitarian response as part of an ongoing approach to decolonising learning.
Thumbnail from Humanitarian Leadership Academy Webinar: 'Designing and Facilitating Your Online Learning'.
Learning design & delivery
Be Inclusive: Including Women and Girls with Disabilities in Development and Humanitarian Projects
Inclusive Futures Consortium - Sightsavers
Project managed and co-authored a learning report structured around successes (‘What we’ll keep doing’), adaptations (‘What we’re changing’) and challenges (‘What we’ll stop doing’). Collaborated with design consultants to produce a high-end finish. This piece turned challenges and gaps in a programme into opportunities for learning, and resulted in high-profile conference, radio and newspaper engagements.
Detail from 'Be Inclusive' learning report cover.
Learning design & delivery
Resource Governance for Sustainable Development Online Course
Natural Resource Governance Institute
Led the adaptation of a massive open online course (MOOC) for a Middle East & North Africa (MENA) audience, collaborating with subject-matter experts, translators, and pilot testers across the region. This adaptation made the course contextually relevant to an entire region of new learners, and raised the profile and representation of MENA-based experts.
Image of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 12, which the course sought to build learning on.
Learning design & delivery
Creating meaningful and successful partnerships between INGOs and OPDs
Inclusive Futures Consortium - Sightsavers
Established a series of peer-to-peer roundtables with representative organisations of people of lived experience of disability, and international development actors, to discuss lessons learnt from collaborating together through a series of projects. The outcome created two briefs, one focusing on practical actions, and one focusing on values and attitudes. Feedback about the sessions focused on the positive impact of a shared space, active listening, and pausing and reflecting mid-way through a programme.
Detail from ‘Creating Meaningful and Successful Partnerships’ document cover.
Learning strategy & frameworks
Disability Inclusive Learning Architecture: Disability Inclusive Development
Inclusive Futures Consortium - Sightsavers
A collaborative design of a programme wide architecture to gather and share learning from a major UK aid consortium programme. Stages involved stakeholder meetings, consortium feedback sessions, pilot delivery, and achievable steps towards building a learning culture. This resulted in robust quality assurance, increase in publications, and uptake of learning and stories in media. The success of the learning, evidence and research portfolio was noted as a significant strand in a funded extension to the programme.
Detail from Learning Architecture mapping stage.
Learning strategy & frameworks
Learning Design Service: Humanitarian Leadership Academy
Save the Children
Piloted and scaled a multi-stage learning portfolio for global humanitarians including online courses, toolkits, peer-to-peer online spaces. This free suite of tools established the Academy’s brand as a lead humanitarian learning provider, growing their competitive offerings and business opportunities.
Image from Humanitarian Leadership Academy's MOOC Design Toolkit.
Training, Facilitation & Capacity Strengthening
Inclusive Education Learning Exchange: Disability Inclusive Development
Inclusive Futures Consortium - Sightsavers
Created and co-facilitated a multi-day learning exchange between technical specialists and representative organisations of people with lived experience, focused on creating consensus on project learning across a diversity of projects. Used participatory and inclusive facilitation techniques drawing on adult learning principles. This exchange created cohesion between a network of specialists with varying approaches, and ownership of three learning reports developed from the content of the exchange.
Facilitating a learning exchange session.
Training, Facilitation & Capacity Strengthening
Human Rights Defenders’ Curricula
[Censored] Human Rights Group
Analysed qualitative data from human rights reports to identify common violations and community response strategies, to contribute to community-based human rights defenders’ training. The result recognised the agency of individuals in their response to oppression, and shared real-life strategies of resistance and response.
Detail from report cover featuring women’s testimonials.
I deliver learning on a broad range of technical areas across the development, humanitarian and human rights sectors, and in organisations of varying size - from INGOs to smaller community based organisations.
Lisa was a real asset not only in terms of her professionalism, can-do attitude, and warm and personable nature, but her ability to work with technical specialists to simplify complexity and design effective, engaging learning opportunities that were grounded in experience, stimulated reflection and encouraged practice. A true all-rounder!
Gabrielle Schembri, Humanitarian Leadership Academy