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Strategic Planning |
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2001 – 2006 |
Strategic re-design of national-level program on HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa |
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Oxfam Australia |
Oxfam Australia is one of five Oxfams supporting the work of the Joint Oxfam HIV/ AIDS Program (JOHAP) in South Africa. I designed and implemented a participatory strategic planning process for JOHAP staff, partners and Oxfam stakeholders to develop a three-year strategic plan that re-conceptualized JOHAP’s objectives and re-defined its priorities. For the second phase of its HIV/AIDS program in Mozambique, Oxfam Australia wanted a sharper strategic focus that reflected its strengths and the evolving nature of the epidemic. Based on interviews with key stakeholders and desk research, I refined the five-year Strategic Plan and prepared a one-year Operational Plan to focus on innovative integrated prevention and care services and pioneering approaches to integrating food security and HIV/AIDS work. |
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2005 – 2008 |
Use of digital media to mobilize men for the prevention of intimate violence |
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Oxfam Australia |
Southern Africa is a key region for Oxfam Australia’s campaigning and programming on economic and social justice. Having interviewed stakeholders in the region and conducted a desk review of ‘grey’ and published literature, I worked with Oxfam to re-frame their response to HIV/AIDS in the region in terms of three priorities; human rights, community resilience and respect for local understandings and leadership. I am currently supporting the organization to develop an over-arching regional strategic framework to align its programming, campaigning and humanitarian work around three core themes: livelihoods, gender equity and HIV/AIDS. |
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1999 – 2006 |
Documentation of promising practices in gender equality work with men on violence and HIV/AIDS |
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Oxfam International |
Oxfam International’s HIV/AIDS Project Group is tasked with developing and leading a more coherent response to the HIV epidemic across the work of the whole of the OI confederation. Hired as the consultant to assist the group in its tasks, I interviewed group members and facilitated two visioning and planning meetings, as well as drafting the group’s input on HIV/AIDS issues into Oxfam International’s strategic planning process. |
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Open Society Institute: IHRD |
The Open Society Institute created the International Harm Reduction Development (IHRD) program in the late 1990′s to respond to the devastating and related epidemics of HIV/AIDS and injecting drug users in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union. I designed and facilitated strategic planning exercises for IHRD in 1999, 2000, and 2001 that clarified and refined the program’s objectives, thematic areas and priorities. In 2002, I led a long-term strategic planning process that included interviewing key stakeholders in the region (Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union), facilitating a meeting with IHRD’s Advisory Board (AB) and a retreat for IHRD staff and allies and drafting a long-term strategic plan that articulated a new policy change goal and accompanying strategic priorities for the program. In 2005, I facilitated a follow-up meeting of the AB to review progress on IHRD’s strategic plan. |