These Client Cases highlight a few examples
of past projects and my approach.
Gender Analysis
Situation
Save the Children International’s commitment to transform the lives of children has led the organization to prioritize gender sensitive and gender transformative programming. As part of this global effort, the organization’s South Sudan program commissioned a gender analysis to be conducted for its ECHO-funded health, nutrition, and food security and livelihoods projects in Abyei.
My Approach
I conducted a rigorous 2.5-day gender and data collection training for locally recruited enumerators on site in Abyei, South Sudan.
Focus group discussions and key informant interviews with local community members took place immediately after this training.
The purpose was to understand gender norms and constraints in the community, as well as effects of the ongoing emergency, in order to best inform programming.
Outcome
A thorough gender analysis report was produced, complete with concrete recommendations for gender mainstreaming in Save the Children’s Abyei projects and across South Sudan. The organization has intention to replicate the methodology for future gender assessments across the country, and findings have been used to inform relevant projects.
Qualitative Evaluation
Situation
A recently established social enterprise, Health-E-Net Ltd. designed and currently implements a telemedicine platform in Turkana County, Kenya that connects non-physician clinicians with volunteer physicians and specialists in other parts of the country. Health-E-Net desired to evaluate and document the success of their platform, as well as to understand motivating factors among volunteer physicians.
My Approach
Qualitative data were collected using Appreciative Inquiry.
This method was selected to best understand and leverage strengths of the company’s asynchronous tele-consultation platform, which sought to strengthen professional networks and affect quality of care at the health system level.
The same method was applied to collect data from physicians to examine best models of recruiting, engaging, and sustaining volunteers.
Outcome
Analyzed data were consolidated into two manuscripts, one published here, and one awaits final submission into a reputable peer-reviewed journal. A poster of the findings was presented at HSR2018 5th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Liverpool, England and linked here.
Regional Meeting Facilitation
Situation
A new regional team had been formed at HelpAge International, amid organizational restructuring and strategy redesign. While the mission and vision was in tact, this new team desired to come together and develop as a cohesive unit, in order to enhance performance and achieve a better future together.
My Approach
I utilized Appreciative Inquiry theory to the facilitation approach, customizing the method to best respond to desires from HelpAge leadership.
In just four hours, we engaged in story-telling interviews to draw out high-point experiences from the past, round-table discussions to discuss organizational identity and culture, and creative presentations to imagine and design the best way forward.
Outcome
The team acknowledged the following outcomes as items of success from our short time together: Appreciation and recognition of recent structural changes; validation of team strengths and potential; agreement and enhancement of team culture; determination of internal markers of success; and clarification of vision and next steps.