CROSS-COUNTRY EXPERT ROUNDTABLE INITIATIVE ON CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, 2024
PROJECT MANAGER & SENIOR CONSULTANT, INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT
This project was commissioned by a leading global healthcare company to discuss the ideal approach to address the unmet medical needs in cardiovascular disease. The cross-country Expert Roundtable initiative was facilitated by Copentown Healthcare Consultants and brought together leading European national experts from different fields relevant for cardiovascular disease. I worked with Copentown as a project manager and senior consultant on the project.
In this role, I supported Copentown in liaising with the client to prepare for and execute the Expert Roundtable initiative in each of four European countries, attending and assisting with the facilitation of the face-to-face Expert meetings, supporting and conducting several of the virtual Expert Working Group sessions, and consolidating and packaging these discussions and outcomes into PowerPoint presentations.
EXPERT ROUNDTABLE INITIATIVE ON ALLERGIC RHINITIS IN CHILDREN, 2024
PROJECT MANAGER & SENIOR CONSULTANT, INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT
This project was commissioned by a European-based pharmaceutical company to discuss the ideal approach to address the unmet medical needs of children with allergic rhinitis. The Expert Roundtable initiative was facilitated by Copentown Healthcare Consultants and brought together an Expert group representing key European Experts from different fields relevant for allergic rhinitis in children. I worked with Copentown as a project manager and senior consultant on the project.
In this role, I supported Copentown in liaising with the client to prepare for and execute the Expert Roundtable initiative, attending and assisting with the facilitation of the face-to-face Expert meetings, supporting and conducting several of the virtual Expert Working Group sessions, and consolidating and packaging these discussions and outcomes into PowerPoint presentations.
INTERNAL COMPANY ASSESSMENT TO ENHANCE MARKET ACCESS FOOTPRINT IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT PLANNING, 2024
SENIOR ANALYST, INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT
This project was commissioned by a global healthcare pharmaceutical company to evaluate the existing integration of market access insights, both globally and locally, into the company’s early development planning, and to identify actionable recommendations and best practices for the company going forward. I worked with Copentown Healthcare Consultants as a senior analyst on the project.
In this role, I assisted Copentown in developing interview questionnaires for different functions across the company, conducting and analysing data from more than 20 in-depth interviews with company employees and three focus groups with a selection of these employees.
REPORTS ON PAY AND WORKING CONDITIONS FOR DOMESTIC WORKERS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 2023 – 2024
LEAD ANALYST, INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT
SweepSouth, an on-demand home cleaning and services platform based in South Africa, commissioned this research to offer a comprehensive view of the work and home lives of domestic workers in South Africa. This project’s output is the Annual SweepSouth Report on Pay and Working Conditions for Domestic Workers in South Africa.
In this project, I was the lead analyst and co-lead author on their Sixth and Seventh Annual Reports. In 2023, I analysed over 5,500 responses to explore key topics such as respondents’ household and employment dynamics, earnings and spending behaviours, saving habits and debt levels, and the impacts of loadshedding on the working conditions, safety, and mental health of domestic workers. In 2024, I analysed over 5,600 responses to explore similar key topics such as family structure, employment dynamics, earnings and spending behaviours, saving habits and debt levels, mental health, and conditions for respondents after leaving employment as domestic workers.
YOUTH SERVICES MAPPING AND VERIFICATION IN SOUTH AFRICA, 2022 – 2023
CONSULTANT, INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT
The primary objective of this project, led by SALDRU at the University of Cape Town, was to map and verify government and civil society services in geographic areas within which the Basic Package of Support (BPS) programme for youth who are Not in Employment Education or Training (NEET) would be rolled out.
I worked alongside a fieldwork management company to conduct in-person verification of youth-focused services in several suburbs in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. My role in this project included the development of a survey questionnaire, survey coding on the SurveyToGo software, the development of enumerator training materials, and the data monitoring and cleaning of survey responses.
PILOT BLOCKCHAIN-BASED HOUSEHOLD ENUMERATION IN AN INFORMAL SETTLEMENT IN THE CITY OF CAPE TOWN, 2021
PROJECT MANAGER & SENIOR CONSULTANT, 71POINT4
The primary objective of this project was to pilot the application of blockchain technology for the household enumeration of an informal settlement in South Africa. A total of 156 surveys were conducted in Freedom Park informal settlement over a two-week period in March 2021. The enumeration process provided data for the City of Cape Town to validate the property claims of these households and assess their subsidy qualification.
In this project, I managed the fieldwork process across all steps from survey development to reporting. This included questionnaire development and survey coding, recruitment and training of enumerators, data gathering management and technical assistance, and analysis and reporting.
PILOT BLOCKCHAIN-BASED PROPERTY REGISTER IN KHAYELITSHA, 2019 – 2021
SENIOR CONSULTANT, 71POINT4
The primary objective of this project, conducted in partnership with the Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa (CAHF), was to develop a blockchain-based property register for subsidy houses that have never been transferred to beneficiary households. The project team developed the survey questionnaire and hired 17 previously unemployed enumerators to collect occupancy data in Makhaza, Khayelitsha, using smartphone-based CAPI software. Validated occupancy data was loaded onto a blockchain-based property register. The team also developed processes to enable households to maintain data on ownership through the Transaction Support Centre (TSC).
In this project, I coded the questionnaire onto CAPI software, trained the enumerators, managed the data monitoring and quality control processes, and validated the collected data against administrative data on subsidy housing.
TRAINING WORKSHOP FOR A NON-PROFIT ORGANISATION IN UGANDA, 2017 – 2019
CONSULTANT, EIGHTY20 CONSULTING
This project in partnership with Financial Sector Deepening Uganda (FSDU) ran workshops in Entebbe and Kampala to upskill and empower individuals working in the financial services sector in research methodologies, data analysis, packaging and presentation.
I developed the course materials focusing on the data collection, data analysis, and presentation aspects of survey research, and assisted in the facilitation of several hands-on sessions with the workshop participants.
INFORMAL SETTLEMENT ENUMERATION AND PROFILING ACROSS SOUTH AFRICA, 2012 – 2018
PROJECT MANAGER & LEAD ANALYST, EIGHTY20 CONSULTING
The Housing Development Agency (HDA) commissioned this project to design and implement an enumeration system for use in profiling informal settlements across South Africa. Between 2012 and 2018, that research gathered data in over 200 settlements in Limpopo, Mpumalanga, the Free State, the Northern Cape, North West and Gauteng.
As the project manager and lead analyst for this project, I coded the cellphone-based questionnaire onto CAPI software, trained community-based enumerators and fieldwork management service providers, provided fieldwork technical support, conducted data monitoring and quality control checks, analysed the survey data, and prepared summary reports.
INFORMAL SETTLEMENT ENUMERATION AND PROFILING IN THE WESTERN CAPE, 2016
PROJECT MANAGER & LEAD ANALYST, EIGHTY20 CONSULTING
The Housing Development Agency (HDA) commissioned this project, independent from the national enumeration process, to conduct full enumerations of households living in selected areas within Nomzamo, Strand, in the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality, and households living in selected areas within Ward 4 of the Knysna Local Municipality. In total 14 informal settlements were enumerated, comprising 5,074 households and 9,402 individuals enumerated and profiled.
As the project manager and lead analyst for this project, I was involved in all steps of the process; namely community engagement, questionnaire development and survey coding, recruitment and training of enumerators, data gathering management and technical assistance, and analysis and reporting.
PROFILE AND STATUS QUO OF INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 2011 & 2013
LEAD ANALYST, EIGHTY20 CONSULTING
The Housing Development Agency (HDA) commissioned this research to investigate the availability of data and to analyse the data relating to the profile, status and trends in informal settlements in South Africa, nationally and provincially as well as for some of the larger municipalities. The report was initially published in 2011 and updated in 2013 with newly released Census 2011 data as well as actual enumeration data collected by the HDA in five municipalities in Limpopo province.
As the lead analyst for this project, I analysed the Census data and other nationally representative survey data sets such as the Community Survey and General Household Surveys, as well as detailed enumeration data collected by the HDA in Limpopo province, and assisted in the writing of the final research reports.
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