Sandra Aviles

Skilled policy advisor successful at leveraging expertise to supporting policy-makers with devising forward-thinking plans and delivering assessments of dynamic socio-economic-political trends on humanitarian and development aid and financing. Decisive problem-solver with proven research, persuasion and strategic policy development experience gained over 15+ years in the field of multilateral assistance and diplomacy.

• Authored policy and strategy documents resulting in new or revised organization-wide changes in humanitarian and development programs, operations and financing.




• Spearheaded and successfully coordinated several UN interagency research processes resulting in major shifts in interagency humanitarian policy, planning and programming, increased funding to humanitarian initiatives by 150% over a five-year period.




• Supervised and mentored a highly effective and diverse team of 10 direct reports and 17 indirect reports that successfully oversaw United Nations (UN) specialized agency's overall extra-budgetary (non-core) resources increase by 40 % and alignment to its strategy and priorities.




• Steered and provided the critical oversight of several UN offices' program of work and budget, ensuring successful audit compliance with 0% issues while managing a merger of the two UN liaison offices sharing common premises and administration, resulting in an annual cost saving of 10% biannually.




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- ILO Arab States' Strategic Engagement in the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus: Challenges & Opportunities June 2023 https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/-arabstates/-ro-beirut/documents/publication/wcms_888462.pdf

- Review of learning experiences on the implementation and management of ILO PROSPECTS, Phase 1 Final report, November 2022

file:///Users/sandraaviles/Downloads/ILO%20PROSPECTS_Review%20of%20learning_Management%20and%20Implementation_Nov2022%20(1).pdf

- “Financing as the UN’s Chronic Deficiency,”, Chapter 1 in Rethinking International Organizations, Columbia University & Ruhr-Universität Bochum Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV) to be published December 2020

- “Efficiency and Inefficiency in Humanitarian Financing”, Humanitarian Outcomes and USAID, December 2017 file:///Users/sandra/Downloads/humanitarian_financing_efficiency_%20(8).pdf

- “Funding to Financing – Financing Collective Outcomes”, World Humanitarian Summit Platform for Action, Commitments and Transformations (PACT), OCHA, July 2017 https://www.agendaforhumanity.org/sites/default/files/resources/2017/Aug/AP_5D_0.pdf

- Dull Disasters” Dercon and Clarke, Oxford University Press, 2016 https://www.gov.uk/dfid-research-outputs/dull-disasters-how-planning-ahead-will-make-a-difference

- “Future of Humanitarian Finance: Looking Beyond the Crises,” FAO, CAFOD, World Vision, 2015 (,https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/FHF_Executive%20Summary.pdf)

- Managing crises together, Carpenter and Bennett, HPG, Overseas Development Institute, UK, July 2015. https://www.odi.org/publications/9723-managing-crises-together-towards-coherence-and-complementarity-recurrent-and-protracted-crises

- “Funding at the Sharp End: Investing in national NGO response capacity, CAFOD,” September 2014 - Saving Lives Today and Tomorrow, OCHA Report, February 2014 https://www.unocha.org/sites/unocha/files/OCHA%20SLTT%20Web%20Final%20Single.PDF

- “Dare to Prepare: Taking Risk Seriously, on behalf of the IASC and in collaboration with Overseas Development Institute (ODI),” December 2013 https://www.odi.org/publications/7955-dare-prepare-taking-risk-seriously

- “Haiyan is a call to Action: Risk must be at the Heart of Development,” Global Minds, Avilés, Peters and Kellett, November 2013 http://www.theglobaljournal.net/article/view/1153/