Projects
2024 Action Aid International, Uganda, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, and global
Synthesis learning report based on a series of youth-led vulnerability assessments for the Danida-funded HUM Youth in Crisis Project.
2024 WINGS, Africa and Latin America (with Arab Foundations Forum)
Research and analysis of the philanthropic support ecosystem for social movements, focusing on domestic funding flows.
2024 Masters candidates, Kenya and South Africa
Developmental editing of final dissertations for MPhil and LLBs in Human Rights at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
2024 Freedoms South Africa
Supporting fundraising efforts to fund community awareness-raising and training in the use of the Clear Me App, as well as general knowledge around criminal justice and building safer communities;
KAP survey design and implementation planning.
2024 The Selful Soul, South Africa and global
Supporting business development activities including updating the website, new product development, communications and marketing strategy development and rollout.
2024 The African Alliance, Africa
Led two research projects to 1) promote collaboration between community leaders and research allies on pandemic preparedness, planning and response; and 2) to understand the extent to which communities were engaged in clinical trial research for COVID-19 vaccine development to inform future programming and advocacy initiatives; supported a continent-wide epidemiological study forecasting future pandemics on the continent.
2022-24 Positive Vibes Trust, Africa, Asia and Latin America
Delivered an analysis of external literature on community-led health systems monitoring and accountability programming with LGBTIQ+ communities; subsequently undertook data synthesis and analysis of internal programmatic documentation to develop an internal learning paper on community-led health systems monitoring and accountability programming with LGBTIQ+ communities.
2023-24 Ilifa Labantwana, UNICEF and Department of Health, South Africa (with the African Alliance)
Delivered a review of the Side-by-Side early childhood development campaign, including overseeing provincial data collection of user feedback, undertaking extensive radio, social and digital media analysis, and developing recommendations for future iterations of the campaign.
2022-23 Aidsfonds, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, and Zambia (with the African Alliance)
Undertook a series of policy mapping and analyses reviewing the extent to which SRHR and self-care approaches are reflected in international, regional, and national health policies in 1) Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia, and 2) in Universal Health Coverage policies in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, and Zambia. Designed the approach, coordinated national consultants, synthesised the data and prepared the final reports, as well as provided content for social media advocacy.
2022-24 South African National AIDS Council - Civil Society Forum, South Africa (with the African Alliance)
Development of Global Fund C19 Response Mechanism-funded toolkit to support faith leaders in providing psychosocial support during health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. Co-designed the materials development process, developed training materials (manual and handouts), and supported piloting and finalisation.
2021-23 The African Alliance, Africa
Developed and harmonised the organisational approach to MEL and MEL toolkit to support the implementation of the organisational strategy (2022-2024) including developing a performance framework that aligns with donor reporting needs, and facilitating conversations with staff about how this and the theory of change aligns to the programmatic and advocacy work.
Led and designed annual organisational reporting processes to donors (South African Medical Research Council; Open Society Foundation (Africa and global); Hilton Foundation; and Frontline AIDS) and internally (2021-2023).
Developed, implemented, monitored and reported on the organisational research strategy, related policies, and annual plans.
Provided comprehensive MEL and research technical support to advocacy and research projects, including designing reporting frameworks for partners and donors, and coaching training partners in their use.
Undertook resource mobilisation activities to support successful funding applications to the Hilton Foundation (USD 2m) Open Society Foundation-Africa (USD 1m) and USAID (USD 45m).
Worked with the team to develop abstracts and present at global health conferences (International Workshop on COVID-19 Vaccines 2022, International Humanities Conference 2023, INTEREST 2023 and International Association of Health Policy Conference 2023).
Coordinated a globally dispersed team from the African Alliance and McGill University to co-author peer-reviewed opinion articles for Frontiers in Health on reimagining demand creation for the African context and using community-led monitoring to inform vaccination programmes.
Mentored 10 Mastercard Foundation-McGill interns supporting programme and advocacy work.
Provided learning and professional development opportunities to the team.
2021-22 One Girl, Australia, Uganda and Sierra Leone
Designed and undertook a 12-year retrospective of One Girl's impact to inform learning, future programming and strategy;
Co-designed and undertook a continent-wide and international donor and partner mapping exercise.
2021 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), global
Supported the update of the 'Advancing the human rights and inclusion of LGBTIQ people: A handbook for parliamentarians' from the 2017 edition.
Wrote legal ‘good practice’ case studies for Uganda and South Africa, and a section on LGBTI and inclusion, as well as general review and editing of the handbook and a new, supplementary facilitators guide.
2021 Fred Hollows Foundation, global
Designed and implemented a meta-evaluation of the Foundation’s evaluation practice spanning the past five years, and recommended an adapted evaluation approach and policy.
2021 Inclusive and Affirming Ministries, South Africa
Collated a regional learning report for the ‘School’s Out’ program (2018-20) identifying key themes from seven partners based in seven Southern African countries, synthesising their experiences of conducting research into faith and sexuality and implementing pilots of Comprehensive Sexuality Education curriculum roll out.
2021 Oxfam Canada, Southern and East Africa
Collated an online resource hub for the regional sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), Her Future, Her Choice program (Ethiopia, Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi). This included sourcing recent national, regional and international documents on a range of thematic areas relating to SRHR, developing a map of the hub, a summary literature review and an introductory document.
2021 Equality Now, global (with dala! Consulting Services)
Process design and project management of a baseline mapping exercise to assess awareness of key Maputo Protocol provisions in African countries amongst women community members and state/non-state actors.
2021 Institute of International Education, global (with dala! Consulting Services)
Process design and management for a review of the global alumni engagement strategy for the Ford Foundation’s former International Fellowship Program, who are now participants in a 10-year tracking study as part of the IFP legacy.
2020-21 Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Thailand and Oxford
Developed user manuals and guidelines for the open source ODK Collect App and the Laboratory Information Management System database for the Wellcome-funded ACORN project which seeks to develop an efficient clinically-oriented AMR surveillance system, implemented alongside routine clinical care in hospitals in LMICs
Process documentation of e-learning curriculum pilot workshop
Editing e-course modules
Donor reporting for Wellcome Trust and WHO.
2019-20 AIDS Foundation South Africa and South African National AIDS Council
Project management and delivery of a process to develop and write a human rights toolkit, including facilitator and participant manuals and supportive training materials
2017-current Positive Vibes Trust, Southern and East Africa
Provide ongoing MEL and communications support and advice
Compiled annual internal and external reports for donors
Developed content for funding proposals, program design and inception processes and internal and external learning papers.
2020 African Centre for Migration and Society, Wits University, South Africa
Edited a series of research reports, discussion papers and other key documents.
2017-19 AIDS Legal Network, Southern and East Africa
Provided MEL and research support for national and regional women’s rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights programmes; fundraising support and annual reporting to donors.
2018-19 Corruption Watch, South Africa
Coordination of a baseline study on land corruption, and facilitation of focus groups to test a police corruption App.
2018-19 Biowatch, South Africa
Content development (collation, synthesis and writing) for a best practice publication
Learning paper on agroecology and HIV.
2017-18 Seed and Knowledge Initiative, Southern Africa
Provided M&E support for donor reporting, developed templates, reviewed and synthesised partner baselines into one cohesive baseline for the donor
Developed a partner newsletter (content, design).
2016-17 Oxfam in Ireland, Tanzania
Provided copy editing and proofreading support for key reports and documentation for the Oxfam in Tanzania programme.