End Violence Secretariat

The End Violence Secretariat is responsible for day-to-day management and operations of the End Violence Partnership and Fund. The team supports the work of the governing bodies, works with partners to develop strategy and prepare plans, and facilitates collective advocacy and coordinated action by partners to deliver Partnership priorities.

Leadership Team

Stella Ayo-Odongo

Director, Pathfinding

Stella Ayo-Odongo

Director, Pathfinding

Stella is a child rights, child protection and social policy expert with over 20 years of experience in strategic leadership, development management and programmes. She currently heads the African Partnership to End Violence Against Children (APEVAC), where she has spearheaded advocacy efforts towards ending violence against children at country, regional, continental and global levels that has generated and contributed to building the end violence movement.

Prior to this, Stella led technical and advocacy initiatives at national, regional and international levels with a focus on child rights issues. She holds an MSc degree in Development Management from the Open University, UK, and an Honors degree in Social Sciences from Makerere University, Uganda.

Sally Burnheim

Deputy Executive Director

Sally Burnheim

Deputy Executive Director

Sally joined End Violence in March 2018, where she oversees programmes and operations, including investments from the Fund to End Violence Against Children.

Prior to that, she worked for UNICEF, leading diverse advocacy initiatives with governments and business, and engagement in multi-stakeholder platforms and global programme partnerships. She led the development of UNICEF’s strategic framework for partnerships and grew relationships with some of UNICEF’s major public and private sector partners. She worked in the office of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2002-06 on special political assignments and as Executive Officer.

An Australian national, Sally began her career in communication and external relations and has lived and worked on four continents, including in two emergencies – South Sudan in the 1990s and the Kosovo crisis in 1999. She has worked with UNICEF HQ offices in New York, Geneva and Sydney, and UNICEF National Committees in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. She holds a Master’s degree in human rights from the University of London’s Institute of Commonwealth Studies and a BA in Communication from Charles Sturt University, Australia. She enjoys spending time in nature.

Chloë Fevre

Director, Safe to Learn

Chloë Fevre

Director, Safe to Learn

Chloë has dedicated her professional life to the rights, well-being, and safety of children. She has more than 15 years of experience working at the international level in designing, implementing, and evaluating policies and programs aimed at ensuring girls and boys have the conditions to fulfil their potential both through more inclusive education systems and through evidence-based violence prevention activities.

Prior to becoming Safe to Learn Director, Chloë led the Safe Schools Initiative at the World Bank that aimed to create the next generation of best practice education projects where violence against children would be an integral part of any future education support. She has also served as violence prevention technical lead for the World Bank Fragility, Conflict and Violence Strategy focusing on mainstreaming violence prevention in human capital and urban development endeavours. Before the World Bank, Chloë worked at the Inter-American Development Bank where she led a series of strategic and operational evaluations on violence prevention in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Chloë has worked in more than 25 countries and deeply values all the partnerships developed in each of them. She began her career and volunteer work at the grassroots level working with street children in Mexico and physically and mentally challenged orphans in India. Her heart and soul stay focused on the mission thanks to these early experiences.

Chloë obtained her PhD from UCL, UK, with a dissertation focusing on mainstreaming inclusive violence prevention in the development agenda. She is an animal and art lover, enjoys learning about neuroscience, and practices meditation.

Andrew Hassett

Director, Communications and Advocacy

Andrew Hassett

Director, Communications and Advocacy

Andrew is a passionate child rights and international development leader with more than 20 years of experience leading teams in the areas of strategy, advocacy, campaigns, policy, communications and marketing. Andrew is currently the Director of Communications and Advocacy at End Violence. Prior to this, he held the position of Senior Director of Advocacy and Global Campaigns at World Vision International, where he led the organisation's advocacy campaigns in the areas of child health and ending violence against children across 70 countries.

Andrew has also led global and national coalition campaigns in support of the Sustainable Development Goals and held the position of co-convenor of the Make Poverty History campaign in Australia. He holds a Master of International Studies and a Bachelor of Commerce and Arts and previously held the position of honorary research fellow at Deakin University.

Marija Manojlovic

Director, Safe Online

Marija Manojlovic

Director, Safe Online

Marija is working on the strategic alignment of Partnership’s priorities, governance engagement and leading on End Violence Fund’s investment approaches on child online safety. Marija believes in the power of multidisciplinary teams and that the key to achieving sustainable development is to work at the intersection of human needs and new technologies.

Prior to joining the Partnership, Marija has worked with UNICEF in East Africa and Central and Eastern Europe on issues that affect children through innovations in research, partnerships, and system reforms, testing new approaches with and for children and young people. Throughout her career, Marija has focused on shedding light on the nature, drivers and impacts of violence against children as part of a broader agenda on early childhood learning, quality education, innovations for young people, social and emotional skills of children, as well as through her work on the Violence Against Children Survey and information poverty of children in Mozambique. Marija holds a MSc in International Relations and Diplomacy from Leiden University, the Netherlands. Finally, Marija is a space nerd, vinyl lover and animal rights activist.

Dr Howard Taylor

Executive Director

Dr Howard Taylor

Executive Director

Dr Howard Taylor is Executive Director of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, an innovative public-private partnership launched by the UN Secretary-General.

Howard has lived in Africa, Asia, Europe and the US. He has led a global corporate foundation, established a creative social enterprise, built government teams, and led a UN-hosted global partnership – all to improve the lives of millions of people.

As Vice-President and Managing Director of the Nike Foundation, Howard was the driving force behind the successful spin-out of Girl Effect as an independent, a creative social enterprise that uses branded mass and social media, technology and data to tackle negative social norms and change behaviours.

Prior to Nike, Howard held senior roles across the UK Government, including at the Department for International (DFID), Cabinet Office and Foreign Office. He was Chief of Staff to two Secretaries of State and led DFID’s largest country programmes in India and Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, he co-chaired the Development Assistance Group, responsible for coordinating the most impactful investment of over $3 billion/year of development finance.

Howard serves on the Board of the WePROTECT Global Alliance and is a member of the International Telecommunication Union Broadband Commission Working Group on Child Online Safety. He is married with two children and enjoys sports, arts, politics, and pursuing inspirational ideas that can change the world.

As a UNICEF-hosted fund, the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children operates under all of UNICEF’s policies, procedures and financial rules and regulations, including audit requirements for adequate and effective governance, risk management and control processes. In compliance with UNICEF’s 2022 audit of the End Violence Partnership, the recommended actions outlined here will be implemented as part of its management response.