Pamela Combinido has over 10 years of combined research and evaluation experience. Her work spans a range of thematic areas including localisation, disaster risk reduction, diversity and inclusion, child protection, and gender equality. She’s based in Manila and occasionally brings banana chips – a HAG team favourite – to Melbourne from the Philippines.
At HAG, Pam is passionate about bridging evidence and practice and working alongside other researchers, practitioners, and humanitarian and development organisations. She’s driven to critically examine whose knowledge counts and why, and believes that actionable knowledge comes from a mix of rigorous research, creative and accessible outputs, and meaningful conversations. Her publication record demonstrates her ability to write and communicate insights in different formats (practitioner-oriented research, guidance notes, academic articles and think pieces) and make it accessible for a diverse audience. Prior to HAG, Pam worked as M&E specialist and researcher in non-government and academic sectors in the Philippines.
She holds a master’s in sociology (with distinction) from the University of Cambridge and a bachelor’s in sociology (magna cum laude) from the University of the Philippines. She was also Chevening scholar and a Cambridge Trust scholar.
Pam’s most recent works include:
- Vision Paper: Toward an Equitable Humanitarian Knowledge and Evidence Landscape
- Making the Results of Humanitarian Evaluation Accessible to Communities: Why it Frequently Fails and What to Do About It
- Bridging Localisation and Locally-Led Climate Adaptation Pathways: Case Studies from Asia, the Middle East and Africa
- Localisation Learning Briefs: Localisation Through Transformative Partnerships, Through Networks and Collectives, and Localisation at a Project-Level
- Needles in a Haystack: An Analysis of Global South Roles in Humanitarian Knowledge Production
To send Pamela an email, please write pam followed by @humanitarianadvisorygroup.org
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