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Skills and Expertise

Our diverse team has extensive knowledge of local conditions and context. Together we have skills and expertise in the following areas: community medicine and public health, epidemiology, public sector development and management, health economics, evaluation methodology, health promotion and qualitative research. Specific skills include:


Capacity Development and Implementation

  • Community and stakeholder consultation and advocacy
  • Design and facilitation of programmes aligned to national priorities
  • Design and field testing of context-appropriate training, tools and materials
  • Post training support for implementation

Policy, Strategy and Management

  • Participatory development of policies at national, provincial, district and organisational levels
  • Facilitation of processes involved in strategy development
  • Strategic and operational planning linked to programme evaluation
  • Sourcing and managing consultants and quality assurance of contracted work

Monitoring, Research and Evaluation

  • Participatory development of monitoring and evaluation frameworks, systems, indicators and tools
  • M&E training and implementation support
  • Data quality audits
  • Impact assessments
  • Selecting, designing and executing research including:
    • Quantitative studies including surveys and controlled trials, case control studies and cohort approaches
    • Qualitative research using focus group discussions, in-depth interviews and other data collection methods
    • Integration of different approaches in mixed methods studies
  • Data analysis and synthesis of complex information into user-friendly formats targeting policy-makers and planners,
    • Uni-variate, bi-variate and multivariate analytic techniques, including use of propensity score analysis
    • Thematic content analysis of qualitative data using grounded theory and case study approaches
  • Systematic literature reviews and preparation of policy briefs

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