Eva Niederberger

Eva has extensive experience as first phase humanitarian responder in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector. Prior to joining Oxfam, she has conducted sociological research and worked in South East Asia on community health.

Eva joined Oxfam GB in 2011 and has as Public Health Promotion expert responded to natural disasters, epidemic outbreaks and conflict settings in the Middle East, West and East Africa as well as Asia.

Over the past four years she has been substantially involved in the development and application Oxfam’s community engagement (CE) approach in WASH – supporting on field trial and action research, strategy development and external coordination with a strong focus on capacity building of national, international and wider WASH sector teams.

Since December 2018, Eva is leading the global Public Health Promotion team for Oxfam’s humanitarian team, providing overall technical support to ongoing emergency responses, developing new approaches to improved quality WASH programming and promoting new innovations.

Eva is the author and co-author of Oxfam’s field guidance notes and formative research on community engagement in WASH:

• Guide to community engagement in WASH: A practitioner’s guide based on lessons from Ebola.
• Introduction Guide to CE in WASH.
• Community Engagement in WASH Emergencies: Understanding Barriers and Enablers Based on Action Research from Bangladesh and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).