Associates of The Sarraounia Trust

Lucy Connell is a Director and Associate of the Sarraounia Trust. Lucy has extensive experience in the clinical care of HIV-infected children and in the training of clinicians in PMTCT and childhood HIV and TB. More recently she has trained and, more recently clinical leadership and clinical governance. Lucy has a keen interest in planning, implementing and evaluating initiatives to strengthen health systems, with a focus on maternal and child health services. She continues her in involvement in the clinical management of HIV-infected children. Lucy trained as a medical doctor and has completed an MSc in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of the Witwatersrand. She has diplomas in Child Health, Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and HIV Management

Joy Summerton is the Director of Okuhlekodwa Research & Development Consultants, a research-focused consultancy based in Limpopo. She is a social scientist by profession, with a PhD in Sociology, and has more than 15 years of experience in conducting qualitative and quantitative research nationally and provincially. Although her forte is health systems research with a specific focus on HIV and AIDS, SRH and MCH, she has increasingly been providing technical assistance in developing and evaluating programmes in other development sectors such as GBV and education. Since 2007, Joy has been providing technical assistance and coordinating development programmes in the predominantly rural province of Limpopo, South Africa. Her role and responsibilities have included taking the lead in evaluations of programmes in the fields of HIV and AIDS, gender, water and sanitation, maternal and child health, nutrition, etc.; developing M&E systems for development programmes; capacity building; proposal writing; baseline assessments and programme development and management. Joy has also been involved in the evaluations and close-out of donor funded programmes nationally.
Joy is also an external supervisor with the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Limpopo; serves as Local Faculty for the Public Health Course of the US-based International Honors Programme (IHP); contracted as a project management consultant with the University of Limpopo Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the Pietersburg Hospital for the Limpopo Initiative for Newborn Care (LINC), a flagship programme that has been adopted by the National Department of Health; and Technical Advisor to Limpopo LGBTI Proudly Out (LLPO).

Priscilla Morley is a Social Worker and focuses on work that includes social research, capacity development, training and facilitation, materials development and rapportuering. Her work experience has afforded the opportunity to work with various stakeholders including the private sector, government, civil society, donors, community members, (adults and children) and schools. She has experience working in Southern, Eastern and Western Africa.

Céline Mazars specialises in research and evaluation on public health and SRHR issues in Southern and West Africa, in particular gender and HIV prevention. She has been involved in research and programme evaluation related to violence against women, in South Africa and globally. Previously, she has worked in HIV prevention programme management, monitoring and evaluation as well as on health and migration issues, in South Africa, where she has resided for ten years, and in Europe. Her multi-facetted experience working in NGOs, the UN as well as the South African government spheres gives her a good understanding of issues related to partnerships, as well as of project development and evaluation. She has strong analytical and synthesis skills and is fluent in English and French. She possesses a Masters in Social Development and qualifications in public health as well as sexual and reproductive health.
Jennifer Baumann has 20 years of experience in the health field, managing health programs and supporting implementation in the public and private sectors. Over the last 12 years, she’s specialized in Monitoring and Evaluation of public health programs at national and sub-national levels in Southern and Eastern Africa. In terms of monitoring, she has set up M&E Systems which involved system design, development of tools, databases, reporting instruments and monitoring reports. In terms of evaluation, Ms. Baumann has conducted rapid assessments, baseline evaluations, economic assessments, mid-term evaluations and final, end-of-programme and impact evaluations. In this regard she has functioned as Project Lead, responsible for evaluation design, overall management and implementation, and conducting data collection, analysis, interpretation and synthesis of evaluation results into a number of reports to meet programmatic, national and international reporting obligations. Ms Baumann has worked with the M&E of large grant-funded projects such as the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria; the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention; and she served as an M&E Reviewer for the World Health Organization’s Stop TB Partnership. Finally, Ms. Baumann develops specialized capacity building / training modules for health consultants, and government and civil society health professionals in various aspects of M&E, including M&E related to specific grant-funded requirements.
Jennifer has a Master’s Degree in Public and International Affairs majoring in Economic and Social Development from the University of Pittsburgh, USA; and a BA in Social Work from the same university.

Kathleen Ebersohn Khuvutlu is a writer, editor, researcher and project manager. She has worked as a lead researcher for Health and Development Africa on an ethnographic needs analysis of commercial sex workers in Mpumalanga. Kathleen also worked as the Communication Manager for one of the first mass testing HCT campaigns in 2009 for Kaelo Consulting where the project succeeded in testing 14 000 people in the Gert Sibande district also in Mpumalanga. She regularly writes for the Debate Journal, a journal focusing on socio-political issues in South Africa. Kathleen also contributes to the quarterly magazine for commercial sex workers called Amaqhawe. She completed her Masters in Sociology by dissertation at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2011. Kathleen’s broad research interests are gender, race, behaviour change communication, health and education. She is a Ruth First winner for research with the University of Witwatersrand and a 2013 PICA Award winner for Best Feature Writer. Kathleen is also currently completing her first novel.

 
Feizel Mamdoo is an associate of the Saraounia Trust. He heads up Journey, Home & Treasure which produces original creative concepts and offers content development and production services. Among recent clients are: icando/Compass Waste Services, production of a health care risk waste management training video; Saraounia/PATH, developing and adapting a Social Behaviour Change Communication strategy for mother and child health; Centre for Mining and Sustainability Institute, social impact of mine closures exhibition content and creative development Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection, researching social cohesion as well as the arts and development; Kalipha Consulting, creative development and proposal for a mass multi-cultural festival Journey, Home & Treasure is a specialist producer of videos and educational photo stories.

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CONTACT: Feizel Mamdoo mamdoof@iafrica.com

Antoinette Ntuli has a background in health promotion and health systems development. Her particular interests are equity and justice in access to health, and health and development communication.
Antoinette has considerable experience in health systems planning and development as well as the design and implementation of multi-media health promotion programmes.
In the UK she worked for the NHS at District, Regional and National level. In South Africa she has worked for a variety of non-profit organisations including the Health Systems Trust and the Soul City Institute for Health and Development. She has lead the development of Social and Behaviour Change Communication guidelines for SADC; is part of the team evaluating the Albertina Sisulu Leadership Programme for Health; and is a member of the board of the Seriti Institute.