The Elevate Network
Connecting the Sector for Humanitarian Excellence in Delivering Programs in Areas of Global Urgency
Community Of Practice
Our Network approach embraces the ever-increasing complexity of global issues, enabling us to deliver best practices in humanitarian programming. We focus on creating connections, fostering collaborations, and continually expanding our network to ensure widespread adoption of industry best practices.
The Elevate Network is a community of passionate individuals and organisations dedicated to learning from each other and supporting our clients. Through collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and the exchange of best practices, we strive to advance humanitarian programming, assistance, and development efforts.
Key Features
By integrating these elements, the Elevate Network aims to drive collective progress towards equity and excellence in humanitarian efforts. Join us as we work together to address the complexities of the modern world and promote sustainable, ethical, and effective humanitarian solutions.
Knowledge Sharing
Members of the Elevate Network exchange information, lessons learnt, and best practices related to humanitarian programs. This includes insights on disaster response, emergency relief, development projects, program design, and leadership in crises. We believe in leveraging local knowledge to create truly fit-for-purpose humanitarian solutions.
Ethical Considerations
Ethics is at the heart of our Elevate Network, guiding all our actions. We continually address dilemmas and challenges related to humanitarian programming. Our networks and practitioner insights support ethical decision-making, ensuring principled and accountable humanitarian program design.
Innovation
The Elevate Network provides a space for innovation, allowing members to explore and implement new ideas, technologies, and approaches to improve humanitarian knowledge exchange opportunities.
Capacity Building
Elevate serves as a platform for capacity building, offering individuals the opportunity to enhance their skills and knowledge through shared resources, training programs, workshops, and other learning opportunities. Visit our Professional Development page to learn about upcoming opportunities in this space.
Collaboration
The Elevate Network fosters collaboration among its members, encouraging joint initiatives, partnerships, and coordinated efforts to address 21st century challenges. We work together to implement best practice approaches to program design and empower stakeholders through two-way knowledge exchange, enhancing collective progress towards equity.
Advocacy
At Elevate we engage in advocacy efforts to promote humanitarian principles, ethics, and policies at local, national, and international levels.
In this section, we highlight selected members of the Elevate Network who collaborate, share knowledge, and create impactful change together. Each member brings unique expertise and experience to our collective efforts in advancing humanitarian equity. To learn more about our Network, including the backgrounds of our members, their engagement in various initiatives, and the expertise they offer to the sector, click on the respective member profiles. Elevate leverages the skills of some of these distinguished individuals to support national and international programs and events, aimed at improving humanitarian equity worldwide.
Please note that Elevate is currently conducting an onboarding process for immersive program partners, community hosts and development consultants. We are looking forward to introducing the new Elevate Network members shortly.
Caitlin Wyndham
Caitlin Wyndham is part of the Elevate Community of Practice and has been involved in the Humanitarian Innovation Seminar 2024, sharing her expertise in social justice advocacy and program management. Caitlin, a Senior Staff Member at Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation, brings 25 years of experience in non-profits across multiple countries, specializing in program design, grants management, and advising on evidence-based strategies for combating human trafficking.
Dimitrios Tzioutzios
Dimitrios Tzioutzios is part of the Elevate Community of Practice, having been involved in the Humanitarian Innovation Seminar 2024. He is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) focussing on disaster risk reduction, Natech accidents, risk communication, and participatory risk management processes, particularly in the context of technology acceptance and community perceptions in emergency safety systems.
Susan Henry
Susan Henry is part of the Elevate Community of Practice, having been involved in the Humanitarian Innovation Seminar 2024, sharing her expertise in emergency management with a focus on community resilience. With over two decades of experience from the Australian Emergency Management Institute, Susan excels in Emergency Risk Management, Planning, and enhancing Community Resilience.
Nicole Lott
Nicole Lott, is part of the Elevate Community of Practice, having been involved in the Humanitarian Innovation Seminar 2024. She is a Senior Leader in Government and Private Sectors, has a diverse background spanning disaster and emergency management, policing, corrections, and retail sectors. Her specialties include strategy development, risk transformation, and workplace investigations, driven by a commitment to fostering a more just and sustainable world.
