Development and maintenance of an online toolkit to support Voluntary Organizations for Evaluation (VOPE’s) aimed at asssitaing with increasing their governance and activity levels.

Technical support as embedded M&E consultant on the evaluation of the DRDLR (Department of Rural Development and Land Reform) funded iSchool initiative in 60 rural Schools in South Africa.

Technical support as embedded M&E consultants on the evaluation of the ICT4RED Cofimvaba eTextbook initiative in 26 schools in the Nciba circuit in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Co-Author of a DPME (South Africa’s Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation) guidance document on Diagnostic Evaluation for use by government officials.

Technical support on the development of a web-based M&E knowledge resource for community based organizations

Evaluation of the Maths Centre Education Improvement project in East Rand schools which also included an ICT component

Development of an M&E framework for the South African Extraordinary Schools Coalition and implementation thereof.

Technical support as quantitative analyst on CGIAR (Formerly Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) Gender & Diversity’s Advancing Women in Agricultural Research & Development project.

Ten year review of the South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement) National Science Week.

Ms Williams was the lead quantitative researcher responsible for the evaluation of the Executive Development Programme which builds the capacity of senior managers in the South African National and Provincial Government Departments. The review included an e-learning component.

Research into the Reunert College’s post-matric model of education development.

Evaluation of the First Rand Foundation Maths Chairs Programmes. Documented programme theories of Six Maths Chairs programmes and facilitated the design of an evaluation framework to guide the evaluation going forward.

Evaluation of two Learner focused ICT interventions and one educator focused ICT intervention in Gauteng Schools.

Provided technical assistance on a Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) of Early Childhood Development expenditure by three government departments. Available at: http://www.unicef.org/southafrica/SAF_resources_pets.pdf.

Designed and implemented a longitudinal impact tracking evaluation for a Saturday School programme (Sharp Minds) involving 400 rural learners in 4 provinces in South Africa. It focused on maths, science and English for grade 10 – 12, but also included an ICT component.

Assisted with the evaluation of the Academy of Science in South Africa for a project aimed at strengthening the National Academies of Science.

Conducted an Evaluation of the Fund for Social Development Projects implemented from 2005 – 08. Assisted the Embassy with the pre-screening of applications and evaluation of proposals in terms of OECD DAC criteria.

Implemented site-audits of 30 income generating / social development projects in Mpumalanga and KwaZulu Natal Provinces.

Assisted with research methodology and data collection for an evaluation of the impact of UNEP’s Geo4 publication.

Contributed to the evaluation of the “First Mile First Inch” Technological Programme implemented in Mozambique funded by the IDRC (International Development Research Centre).

Conducted high-level interviews for a mid-term review of JIPSA (Joint Initiative for Priority Skills Acquisition).

Involved in the Strategic Planning for the ECDOE and writing the first draft of the 2007 / 2008 Annual Performance Plan.

Facilitated strategic planning process and wrote the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Strategic Plan for IOM (International Organization for Migration) Zimbabwe. Also wrote the Strategic plan for the Mobile an Vulnerable People Working Group – a group of humanitarian actors in Zimbabwe targeting MVPs.

Wrote indicator specifications for Performance Measures included in a Manual for use by Provincial Education Departments when writing their Annual Performance Plans.

Analysed and reported on quantitative data from approximately 900 projects from 75 countries.

Conducted an Evaluation of the MultiChoice Africa VUKA! Awards programme which gave newcomers and professional film makers the opportunity to produce Public Service Announcements flighted on the DSTV bouquet of channels.

Gap analysis of current reporting practise against sustainability reporting requirements.