Experience

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  UN Women

  • United States
  • International Affairs
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Thematic Evaluation Consultant Ending Violence against Women and Girls

    • Feb 2024 - Present

    • Regional reference group member of mid-term review of UN Women, UNICEF and UNFPA joint programme for elimination of violence against women and children in Vietnam • Conducting availability assessment for three of UN Women Afghanistan’s EVAWG programmes

  • Consultant

    • Jul 2020 - Present

    - Developed concept note and selection criteria for UN Trust Fund to End Violence againstWomen (UNTF) COVID-19 crisis response window- Authored a report on lessons learned, challenges and opportunities from the UNTF 2015-2020 strategic plan, to support development of their next strategic plan-Authored practice briefs on community mobilization and adaptive programming after analyzing monitoring and evaluation data from 20 UNTF funded projects and conducting focus groups with grantees-Conducted meta-analysis and wrote two reports based on lessons arising and results from UNTF’s special funding window targeting refugee and forcibly displaced women and girls- Wrote content on violence prevention for updating UN Women’s Virtual Knowledge Center to End Violence against Women and Girls

  • Social Norms Evaluation Expert

    • Oct 2023 - Dec 2023

    • Led feminist collaborative evaluation around social norms change programming • Conducted mission to Barbados and Grenada to collect primary data with UN Women staff, partners, and project participants, and facilitated participatory workshops • Conducted thematic analysis and wrote presentation synthesizing findings

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  University of Exeter

  • Co-Investigator

    • Aug 2023 - Present

    • Provide research and technical support for adaptation of intervention to reduce IPV among young couples in South Africa, drawing on insights from Indashyikirwa intervention in Rwanda• Led analysis of baseline couples data to identify contextual considerations for couples programme

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  Social Development Direct

  • Gender Based Violence Expert

    • Apr 2021 - Present

    • Equipped intervention development and adaptation of the GALS (Gender Action Learning System) methodology in Zimbabwe to ensure incorporation of gender based violence (GBV) programme principles and methods • Support UNFPA’s adaptation of the Indashyikirwa programme to Syria including design and analysis of formative, baseline and midline research, adapting and pre-testing the curricula • Technical expert for evidence reviews on the relationship between GBV and mental health

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  University of Cape Town

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Honorary Associate Professor

    • Oct 2019 - Present
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

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  The Prevention Collaborative

  • Senior Associate and Mentor

    • Jan 2019 - Present

    • Support projects in Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Indonesia, Timor-Leste and Vietnam to develop evidence-based violence prevention programming, monitoring and evaluation • Write practice and evidence briefs and led internal evaluation of piloted learning partnership programme to offer capacity building for organizations to prevent GBV in the Global South • Facilitated UN Women RESPECT Training with participants based in Nigeria • Lead mentor of partnership in Kenya which has included managing project budgets, writing funding proposals, and providing technical support for adaptation of Indashyikirwa programme• Led development of mental health as a violence prevention strategy including writing an evidence review, developing conceptual framework and conducting interviews to integrate mental health strategies into IPV curricula

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  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of London

  • Honorary Assistant Professor

    • May 2019 - Present

    Gender Violence and Health Center (GVHC)

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  UNDP

  • Technical Advisor

    • Aug 2018 - Jul 2022

    • Advised design and evaluation of pilots to address GBV in Indonesia, Moldova, and Peru through participatory design processes and led authorship of final evaluation products • Supported and evaluated adaptation of the Indashyikirwa couples curriculum in Lebanon and Iraq and of the mental health CETA methodology from Ukraine to Moldova

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  Inter-American Development Bank

  • Bolivia

  • Principal Investigator

    • Dec 2019 - May 2022
    • Bolivia

    Provided technical and analytical leadership to design and implement a qualitative assessment of a parenting programme (Program P) to prevent violence against children and intimate partner violence in El Alto, BoliviaLed a publication and brief to document lessons learned from qualitative and quantitative research of the programme and identify elements to be adjusted to inform scale up

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  UNFPA Ukraine

  • External Evaluator

    • Dec 2021 - Mar 2022

    Conducted qualitative interviews, reviewed project documents, conducted thematic analysis and wrote final report evaluating the Break the Circle campaign to prevent GBV in Ukraine

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  South African Medical Research Council

  • Qualitative Principal Investigator

    • Apr 2019 - Dec 2019

    - Coordinated evaluation of Indashyikirwa in Rwanda as part of DFID’s What Works GlobalProgramme which included securing ethics approval, coordinating field work, developingstudy procedures, leading analysis and writing qualitative and mixed methods findings- Led synthesis pieces across the What Works portfolio including evidence on transformingharmful social norms, and qualitative insights into processes of change

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  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of London

  • United Kingdom
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Assistant Professor on Gender Violence

    • Nov 2017 - Mar 2019

    Lead qualitative researcher for impact evaluation of Indashyikiwra, which included qualitativedata analysis and writing, input to mixed methods papers, communicating trial results• Offered research capacity building with programme partners around study design, analysis, writing• Deputy Module Organizer of ‘Principles and Practice of Health Promotion’ masters level course• Analyzed data and lead publications on intersection between gender-based violence and disabilitiesfrom studies in Ghana, Rwanda, Tajikistan and South Africa

  • Research Fellow on Gender Violence

    • Feb 2016 - Nov 2017

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  UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women

  • Technical Reviewer

    • Apr 2015 - Feb 2019

    Reviewed and provided three separate rounds of narrative and quantitative assessment of African based project proposals submitted for funding to UN Trust fund to end violence against women

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  Women's Health Research Unit, University of Cape Town

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Honorary Research Associate

    • Jan 2011 - Aug 2018
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Convener of qualitative research methods and gender and health for the Masters of Public Health (MPH) program and undergraduate medical students from 2012 to present Compiled literature reviews, research proposals and conducted interviews and qualitative research analysis for various gender and health related projects including social and psychological barriers to ART adherence among HIV positive patients, ethical consequences of HIV cure research, childbearing and parenthood among HIV positive individuals, and integration of SRH and HIV care Supervised theses of three MPH students and evaluate rigour of submitted research protocols to the Health Sciences Ethics CommitteeConducted situational analysis and facilitated OSISA and UN Women workshops with sex workers, women living with HIV, and the LGBTI community from 13 African countries to develop a regional HIV advocacy plan, and was chief rapporteur of final report based on the workshops

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  Equimundo (Formerly Promundo-US)

  • Kigali, Kigali City, Rwanda

  • Evaluation Consultant

    • Feb 2018 - May 2018
    • Kigali, Kigali City, Rwanda

    Supported internal mid-term review of Prevention Plus Men and women ending GBV programme in Rwanda by facilitating reflection sessions with RWAMREC staff and providing programme recommendations

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  CARE International UK

  • Lilongwe, Central Region, Malawi, Malawi

  • GBV Technical Consultant

    • Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
    • Lilongwe, Central Region, Malawi, Malawi

    • Informed development of CARE’s Gender Justice violence against women and girls programme including to technical proposal, theory of change and adaptation of Indashyikirwa programme • Provided leadership on behalf of CARE International UK to a project design workshop in Lilongwe and worked with CARE Malawi and CARE UK to define CARE’s role in delivery of the programme

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  Girl Effect

  • Kigali, Kigali City, Rwanda

  • IPV Technical Consultant

    • Feb 2017 - May 2017
    • Kigali, Kigali City, Rwanda

    Supported development of radio drama story around IPV by presenting research on social norms related to IPV, barriers and enablers to prevent IPV and providing feedback to story development

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  The World Bank

  • Kigali, Kigali City, Rwanda

  • Curriculum Development Consultant

    • Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
    • Kigali, Kigali City, Rwanda

    Conducted analysis and wrote a report to identify priorities for revision, challenges and lessons learned from implementing the Indashyikirwa IPV prevention curriculua in Rwanda

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  Oak Foundation

  • Independent Reviewer

    • Oct 2016 - Mar 2017

    Conducted review of relevance, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of Oak’s grant making programme to engage men and boys to prevent sexual violence and violence against children

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  Laterite

  • Kigali, Kigali City, Rwanda

  • Qualitative Research Consultant

    • Nov 2015 - May 2016
    • Kigali, Kigali City, Rwanda

    Advised study assessing gender differences in use of Tigo Cash mobile money which included conducting several in-depth interviews, analysis and contributing to write up of final report Offered qualitative research capacity building sessions to Laterite senior research staff

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  Social Development Direct

  • Kigali Rwanda

  • Study Coordinator

    • May 2015 - Mar 2016
    • Kigali Rwanda

    Coordinate qualitative and quantitative process monitoring and evaluation as part of the What Works to Prevent Violence Initiative of a community gender based violence prevention project delivered by CARE International, Rwanda Men’s Resource Centre (RWAMREC) and Rwanda Women’s Network (RWN)

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  Sonke Gender Justice

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Research Consultant

    • Sep 2014 - Dec 2015
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Assessed previous SRH campaigns engaging men at regional and global levels in order to build on previous efforts and identify key actors in the field for MenEngage SRHR initiative Coordinated regional meeting with African SRH organisations to provide input to proposed themes and strategies of the initiative Conducted 26 stakeholder interviews for input on initiative and compiled final report based on interviews, political and historical assessments, to guide platform and messages of the initiative Conducted extensive review of literature including academic articles, program and policy reports and wrote chapters around shifts in the last twenty years, evidence of best practices, gaps and future priorities for engaging men in health, education and SRHR for EMERGE project (Engendering Men: Evidence on routes to gender equality)Conducted case study and gathered stories of change in Ethiopia on how the NGO KMG successfully engaged men and boys in their female genital mutilation-circumcision abandonment efforts Convened research methods course to Men Engage Training Initiative (MATI) to scale up work on engaging men and boys in gender equality; rated suitability of applicants for the course and mentored one participant with post project implementation

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  University of Toronto

  • Toronto

  • Research Consultant

    • Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
    • Toronto

    • Conducted thematic analysis of qualitative interviews assessing experiences of stigma and discrimination and resilience for sexual and gender minorities in Lesotho and Swaziland• Conducted background research and drafted section of funding proposal for intervention to address sexual and mental health disparities for Aboriginal populations in Canada

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  Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust

  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  • Sexual Abuse Counsellor

    • Jan 2011 - May 2015
    • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

    Completed training in rape trauma syndromes, counseling relationship, skills, techniques, assessment, referral, and criminal justice processes to become a rape crisis counselor

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  AIDS-Free World

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Research and Advocacy Associate

    • Jun 2012 - Oct 2014
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Primary investigator of a project at two sites to test efficacy for a self-interviewing application to document contextual barriers to women reporting rape to legal and medical authorities, which included compiling a situational analysis and literature review, writing the proposal, securing funding, establishing partnerships with implementing organizations, obtaining ethics approval, designing the study instruments and sampling strategy, drawing up the budget and managing finances, supervising all research members, coordinating logistics, analyzing the data and writing the final report Conducted systematic research and compiled situational analysis on barriers to women reporting rape and accessing justice in Brazil, Liberia, Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh, Malawi, United States and JamaicaFacilitated stakeholder meetings amongst GBV experts in Tanzania to share lessons learned from the South African project and to consider scale-up in Tanzania

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  Center of AIDS Development Research and Evaluation (CADRE)

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Researcher

    • Mar 2010 - Jun 2011
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Coordinated a study on men’s sexual and reproductive health (SRH) to assess how policy, programs and services can better meet the needs of men and women in SRH careCompiled literature reviews on HIV/AIDS and gender related material, and peer edited journal submissions to the African Journal of AIDS Research (AJAR)

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  TransCape NPO

  • Ngqeleni Eastern Cape

  • HIV/AIDS Project Coordinator

    • Aug 2009 - Jun 2010
    • Ngqeleni Eastern Cape

    Coordinated delivery and project management of a rural NPO’s programmes on SRH, HIV awareness and prevention, sexual violence prevention, combating stigma of and supporting PLHIV Used participatory research to assess community and stakeholder needs, strategize and write an HIV/AIDS,TB and sexual violence action proposal, which successfully secured over three million rand Monitored and evaluated the success and impact of HIV/AIDS, TB and sexual violence projects based on the action proposal using gender related targets

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  Equality Now

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Intern

    • Jan 2009 - Jun 2009
    • London, United Kingdom

    Research and reporting on rights of sex workers and trafficked women and girls

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  CMX Medical Research

  • Oakville, Ontario

  • Study Coordinator

    • Nov 2007 - Sep 2008
    • Oakville, Ontario

    Recruited and screened suitable subjects for men’s prostate cancer study, which included acquiring informed consent, debriefing study participants, and compiled case reports for managing the data

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  Edun Apparel Ltd

  • Dublin, Ireland

  • Intern

    • Sep 2007 - Nov 2007
    • Dublin, Ireland

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  Queen's University

  • Psychology Pain Lab, Kingston Ontario

  • Research Assistant

    • Sep 2006 - Apr 2007
    • Psychology Pain Lab, Kingston Ontario

    Conducted trials for Psychology Pain Lab

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  Muskoka Woods Foundation

  • Rosseau, Ontario

  • Development Associate

    • May 2006 - Aug 2006
    • Rosseau, Ontario

    Wrote compelling reports of children who were sponsored to attend a summer camp and designed a donor recognition proposalOrganized a fundraising campaign that raised over $100,000 for underprivileged children to attend campAdvocated and liaised to make summer camp more accessible to children with disabilities