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Expertise Conceptual analysis of connections between health, violence, gender and social justice: As both author and editor, I develop and deploy analyses of issues of men, masculinity and power that articulate the connections between: gender and other forms of oppression; interpersonal and institutional violence; public health and public safety; and individual and social change. Strategic planning to assist organizations in clarifying priorities, opportunities and capacities for the achievement of their social change goals: I design, deliver, synthesize and document strategic planning processes for organizations working on a range of social justice issues and social change goals. I have led strategic planning processes focused at national, regional and global levels with a range of organizations, including Oxfam International, Oxfam Australia, the Open Society Institute, and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
Program development work that supports HIV/AIDS organizations in designing programs within a social justice framework: I support HIV/AIDS organizations in all aspects of program development (assessment, design, monitoring and evaluation) to respond to the identified rights, needs and interests of targeted communities. I have supported such program development in countries of the economic North and South. Technical capacity building work that develops assessment and intervention ‘tools’ for HIV/AIDS organizations: I develop, pilot and revise curricula and manuals that strengthen the technical capacity of organizations to implement their HIV/AIDS programs. I have authored toolkits on “Gender, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in Zambia” and “Developing HIV/AIDS work with drug users” as well as curricula on gender-based work with men on violence and HIV/AIDS in South Africa and gender-based work with the South African Defense Force. Education
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This has included designing and piloting training workshops on “Gender and Sexuality in Men’s Lives” for community-based organizations (CBOs) in the Philippines and Zambia that receive technical/financial support from the Alliance. In partnership with local staff, I have created and pilot tested a toolkit on “Gender, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in Zambia” that will be published later this year. I have enhanced the Alliance’s capacity to integrate issues of masculinity and violence into its work through initiating and editing a case study collection on HIV/AIDS work with men and researching and authoring a discussion paper on violence and HIV/AIDS in Asia and Eastern Europe. Strengthened the capacity of the Alliance, at the regional and national levels, to develop harm reduction programming: This included designing and facilitating two regional consultations on expanding and enhancing HIV/AIDS prevention and care work with people who inject drugs in Asia. On the basis of these consultations, I authored the Alliance’s toolkit on “Developing HIV/AIDS work with Drug Users: A Guide to Participatory Assessment and Response” and have trained CBO staff in the Ukraine in the use of the PAR approach. Strengthened the capacity of Alliance community-based partners to use participatory approaches in all aspects of sexual health program development: I have provided technical support on participatory program development (needs/situation assessment, project design, strategy implementation and project review and evaluation) to CBO staff in Bangladesh, Cambodia, the Philippines and the Ukraine. I also drafted an Alliance toolkit on participatory approaches to community needs assessment and HIV prevention project design, including pilot testing of the toolkit in Bangladesh, the Philippines, Zambia and Mongolia. In order to synthesize Alliance learning on the application of participatory approaches, I served as lead author of Alliance reports on “The role of participatory community assessment in responding to HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Sri Lanka” and “Community lessons about improving responses to HIV/AIDS.”
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. On the basis of this strategic plan, I developed one-year operational plans for JOHAP for 2002 and 2003. Analyzed and articulated strategic priorities for Oxfam Australia’s response to HIV/AIDS in the Southern African region: I was commissioned by Oxfam Australia to author a discussion paper on its response to HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa, based on interviews with key stakeholders in the region and a desk review of available literature. The discussion paper re-framed Oxfam Australia’s strategic response in terms of three core priorities; human rights, community resilience and respect for local understandings and leadership. Revised the five-year Strategic Plan and prepared the one-year Operational Plan for Oxfam Australia’s HIV/AIDS program in Mozambique: For the second phase of its HIV/AIDS program, 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 Strategic Plan too focus on two core objectives; developing innovative integrated prevention and care services and pioneering approaches to integrating food security and HIV/AIDS work.
As a facilitator and participant in a Collaborative convened by Generation Five to explore alternative justice approaches to child sexual abuse (CSA), I have helped to conceptualize the principles, processes and practices of a Transformative Justice approach to CSA. I am co-author of the Collaborative’s position paper on Transformative Justice.
Within EngenderHealth’s global Men as Partners Program, the South African MAP program has initiated some of the most innovative work with men. I designed and implemented a documentation process with eight South African MAP partners looking at the process and results of their work. Based on this documentation, I produced a “Promising Practices” guide that will be used by the global program. Revised and expanded South African MAP training curricula: I revised and expanded training curricula used by the MAP Master Trainers and by the South African Defense Force to include more material on sexuality, violence and oppression and social change. Revised EngenderHealth’s core curriculum for the MAP program in South Africa: Based on feedback from key stakeholders and a review workshop that I designed and facilitated, I developed a new modular format for the curriculum and coordinated the revision process, including authoring the background sections on key issues of gender, violence and HIV/AIDS.
The recently formed 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 the forthcoming OI strategic planning process.
As part of FVPF’s Building Partnerships Initiative to End Men’s Violence (supported by the CDC), I documented the consultation meeting with CDC partners, developed recommendations for improvements to the toolkit and edited the contents of the toolkit on the basis of these recommendations.
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 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, designed and facilitated a follow-up meeting of the Advisory Board to review progress on IHRD’s strategic plan.
I co-authored the UNDP Gender in Development Program’s monograph on “Men, Masculinities and Development: Broadening our work towards gender equality” that was presented at the Beijing +5 conference. I co-facilitated workshops on gender mainstreaming for UNDP/UNICEF staff in Eastern and Southern Africa (Harare, Zimbabwe, September 1996) and gender mainstreaming for UNDP headquarters staff (New Jersey, USA, February 1999), with an emphasis on how to address issues of men and masculinity in gender mainstreaming. I developed training materials on core skills for gender mainstreaming and edited six Gender in Development monographs and the second volume of UNDP Habitat II series.
I helped to expand the application of harm reduction philosophy and practice to new sectors by developing a harm reduction overview curriculum for criminal justice agencies in New York City and adapting the Harm Reduction Training Institute’s curriculum “An Overview of Harm Reduction Policy and Practice” for use by the New Jersey AIDS Education and Training Council. I also served as editor of “Harm Reduction Communication”, the newsletter of the Harm Reduction Coalition, and developed the newsletter as a medium for articulating the voices of drug users in policy debates on drug use, HIV/AIDS and other public health and public safety issues. Employment
> Provided one-to-one support to 22 HIV/Development National Professional Officers and organized an NPO-specific HIV and Development workshop.
> Lead author of the national IEC strategy and the HIV/AIDS IEC manual.
> Worked with radio and print media to advocate for changes in policy and attitudes towards drug use, HIV/AIDS and homelessness. > Provided face-to-face and telephone counseling to HIV positive drug users and served as the drug services liaison person with HIV testing, counseling and treatment services.
> Designed and implemented an Alcohol Education Course for offenders. > Authored Social Inquiry Reports for the criminal and civil courts. Publications Men and Violence: Problems with Masculinity in “Men, Boys and Gender Equality”, Un Division for the Advancement of Women (forthcoming) Men, sex and power: Engaging men in achieving gender equality and sexual and reproductive health Editorial for Sexual Health Exchange, 2005 Working with Men, Responding to AIDS: Case Study Collection International HIV/AIDS Alliance, November 2003 Partners in Change: Working with Men to End Gender-based Violence UN - INSTRAW (Editor), August 2002 Harm reduction in the USA: a movement for social justice in “From Act Up to the WTO: urban protest and community building in the era of globalization”, Shepard, B. and Hayduk, R. (eds), Verso: London, July 2002 The Spectacle of Men Fighting in “IDS Bulletin - Men, Masculinities and Development”, 31(2), April 2000 Men, Masculinities and Development: Broadening our work towards gender equality UNDP Gender in Development Monograph Series #10 (with Michael Kimmel and James Lang), March 2000 Rapid Assessment and Response in context of IDU and the HIV epidemic in “International Journal on Drug Policy”, 11 (with Sara Kershnar), Jan 2000 |
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