Evaluations

    Strategic Evaluations of Priority Programmes in Government

    • 2017 - 2018 Cardno, DfID

      Evaluation of three governance networks in Africa.

    • 2015 - 2018 Zenex Foundation, Gauteng Education

      Evaluation and Knowledge Management for the GDE School Twinning Initiative.

    • 2015 - 2016 John Snow International, Gauteng Department of Health

      Baseline Assessment of the Data Quality in Gauteng Province Health Facilities.

    • 2010 - 2012 PALAMA (Public Administration, Leadership and Management Academy)

      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 also had an e-learning component.

    • 2009 - 2010 UNICEF South Africa

      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

    • 2007 - 2008 National Business Initiative

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

    Evaluations, Frameworks and Planning in the Education Sector

    • 2017 - 2018 Cardno, DfID

      Evaluation of three governance networks in Africa.

    • 2016 - 2017 MSI, USAID

      Evaluation of Sustained Outcomes (SOBE) of the District Development Support Programme (DDSP), to identify factors that contribute to sustained outcomes from international development interventions.

    • 2016 - 2017 ITAD, DfID

      Four country evaluation of the Building Capacity in Use of Research Evidence Initiative.

    • 2012 - 2013 Bridge

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

    • 2011 - 2012 AWARD

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

    • 2010 - 2012 Zenex Foundation

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

    • 2010 - 2012 Tshikululu Social Investments

      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 ICT for Education programmes

    • 2013 - 2015 CSIR MERAKA Institute

      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.

    • 2013 - 2015 CSIR MERAKA Institute

      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.

    • 2012 - 2013 Michael and Susan Dell Foundation (MSDF)

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

    • 2010 - 2012 JET Education Services / Gauteng Education Development Trust

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

    • 2008 - 2010 Transnet Foundation

      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.

    • 2004 - 2005 MultiChoice Africa

      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.

    Evaluation and Research in Science, Technology & Innovation

    • 2011 SAASTA

      Conduct a review of the first 10 Years of the National Science Week (NSW) Programme of the Department of Science and Technology (DST).

    • 2008 - 2009 OtherWise Research & Evaluation and EnCompass

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

    • 2008 Evalnet / Universalia

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

    • 2008 OtherWise Research and Evaluation

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

    Evaluations of Community-Based Initiatives

    • 2017 Breadsticks Foundation

      Ex-post evaluation of the Class Act Programme which was intended to promote community care, literacy and economic development.

    • 2017 Norwegian Band Federation

      External review of the Fieldband Foundation’s “Putting Down Roots” programme.

    • 2017 SmartStart

      Formative evaluation of a social francise model for early childhood education.

    • 2009 Tshikululu Social Investments / First Rand Foundation

      Participatory Assessment of the Masibambane and Mascincedane homes for Disabled Children.

    Corporate Social Investment Portfolio Assessments

    • 2008 - 2010 Transnet Foundation

      Logitudinal impact tracking evaluation for a Saturday School programme (Sharp Minds) involving 400 rural learners in 4 provinces in South Africa. It focussed on Maths, Science and English for grade 10 to 12, including an ICT component.

    • 2008 - 2009 French Embassy in Pretoria

      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.

    • 2008 Eskom Development Foundation

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

    • 2005 - 2006 CARE International

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

    • 2004 PetroSA

      Gap analysis of current reporting practises against sustainability reporting requirements.

    • 2004 Multichoice

      Development and implementation of a monitoring, evaluating and reporting system for corporate investment performance.

    • 2003 Sustainability Research and Intelligence

      Development of a quantitative scoring model for data analysis to assess company sustainability performance for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Social Responsibility Index.

    • 2003 PetroSA Development Trust

      Review of social investment performance. This included aspects such as: Instrument design, Interview and focus groups, Quantitative and Qualitative analysis and reporting.

    • 2003 MTN Foundation

      Review of social investment performance. Including Instrument design, Strategic review, Interviews with focus groops, Quantitative and Qualitative analysis and reporting.

    • 2003 Anglo Platinum

      Development of a toolkit for feasibility assessment, management as well as monitoring and evaluation of corporate social investment and local economic development initiatives.

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