Africa AHEAD is an Association of consultants with long experience in Public Health, working at the cutting edge of development throughout Africa for the past 25 years. All have strong analytical and writing skills, providing specialist services in most aspects of community based integrated development, building capacity and working with government in policy and strategy development to enable national programmes to scale up to meet the Millenium Development Goals.
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ADVOCACY AND POLICY ADVISOR
Anthony Waterkeyn: Founder and Chairman.
M.Eng. in Tropical Public Health Engineering, Leeds. 1985.
As WSP-World Bank Specialist Advisor between 2003 -2011, Anthony has a proven ability in strategy development, advocacy, capacity building as well experience for the past 26 years, of the viability of technologies used in water and sanitation. Recently, as a result of his advocacy the Governments of both Rwanda and Vietnam have developed road maps which have enabled a viable Community Based Environmental Health Promotion Programme (CBEHPP) to take place nationally, introducing CHCs at scale in both these countries. Anthony founded Mvuramanzi Trist in Zimbabwe in 1993, before starting up Zimbabwe AHEAD Organisation in 1997 and is currently Chairman of the later, whilst travelling extensively as a leading advocate of the CHC Approach.
African Experience: Tanzania, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Rwanda, Nigeria, Liberia, Namibia.
Middle East: Saudi Arabia, Afganistan, Iraq. Asia: Indonesia, Bhutan, Vietnam. Carribean: Jamaica
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COMMUNITY HEALTH CLUB ADVISOR:
Dr. Juliet Waterkeyn: Founder and Director.
PhD. MPhil. Public Health. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. London. 2006.
As the initiator and main instigator of the CHC approach over 23 years ago, Juliet has spent her whole career in Africa, developing, refining and researching the CHC Model, and has in the past decade introduced it into many countires in Africa and Asia. Whilst providing part time mentoring and direction for Zimbabwe AHEAD, she travels extensively on behalf of Africa AHEAD training CHC facilitators, adapting training material and visual aids for CHC training, as well as research, feasibility studies, monitoring and evaluation. She is recognised as a foremost writer on hygiene behaviour change, presenting regularly at international conferences.
In 2010, she received an AMCOW Award as ‘distinguished woman leader in sanitation’ and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.
African experience: Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Namibia.
Asia: Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Vietnam.
Languages: English (mother tongue), French, Italian.
Peer reviewed paper:
Waterkeyn, J. & Cairncross, S. (2005). Creating demand for sanitation and hygiene through Community Health Clubs: a cost-effective intervention in two districts of Zimbabwe. 61. Social Science & Medicine. p.1958-1970
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PUBLIC HEALTH TRAINING ADVISOR:
Zachary Bigirimana
Masters of Public Health Tulane University, USA. 1988
Currently Head of Environmental Health Sciences Department and a Senior Lecturer at Kigali Health Institute (KHI) Rwanda and one of the Directors for Regional AIDS Training Network (RATN) based in Nairobi and networking 25 member institutions of 10 Countries. He is a part time Technical Advisor to the Environmental Health Desk of Ministry of Health Rwanda and a National Trainer at Health Manpower Development Centre, Uganda. Twenty years experience in Management of Health Services, Rural Social Development and Human Resources Development, Food Hygiene and Inspection. Skillful trainer in Participatory Approaches, the Community Health Club Approach, Project Planning.
African experience: Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya.
Languages: English, Kinyarwanda , Rukiga, Luganda (Mother tongue)
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Water and Sanitation Advisor
Dr. Brian Mathew
PhD. Water and Sanitation, Cranfield University, 2005
Brian has been working mainly in Africa for the past 25 years, managing and evaluating water, sanitation and hygiene programmes: as Country Representative for WaterAid in Tanzania; with DFID in Zimbabwe, and for PricewaterhouseCoopers on the Five Cities Water Programme in Mozambique; and Government of Malawi on their National Sanitation Policy. His main focus is on the engineering / social interface as well as capacity building WASH staff and institutions, as well as promoting the use of productive water and ecosan for better nutrition and poverty reduction. In 1997, he was the first to replicate the CHC strategy successfully in a DFID project in Bikita (see publications). He is currently working East Timor with World Vision piloting the CHC Model.
Experience:
Africa: Zambia, Angola, Sudan, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa, Guinea Bissau, Malawi, Ethiopia.
Asia: East Timor
Latin America and the Caribbean: Honduras, Guyana
Languages: English (mother tongue), Portuguese, Swahili, Arabic (Basic)
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LIVELIHOODS ADVISOR:
Liz Drake
M.A. Environment and Development, School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, 1998.
Experience advising on rural livelihoods and the process of pro-poor policy and decentralised service delivery for the past 15 years, Liz has developed integrated programmes for DFID, implementing multi-Sector wide approaches in developing countries (Agriculture, ENR and Forestry) promoting institutional and organisational change for natural resource management, environment and development, M&E and rural governance.
African experience: Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Sénégal, South Africa
Asia: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia
Peer reviewed paper: 2007. Promoting Sustainable Pro-Poor Growth in Rwandan Agriculture: What are the Policy Options?
http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/9908
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HIV/AIDS AND MALARIA TRAINER AND RESEARCHER:
Dr. Moniqe Oliff
PhD Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. 2004.
Monique is a family health nurse practitioner with a doctorate in international public health, with 14 years experience throughout East and Southern Africa, providing quality technical assistance that addresses reproductive health, maternal and child health, nutrition, malaria and HIV/AIDS both in rural and urban contexts alongside quality implementation research that brings research closer to practice. As a nurse practitioner and public health specialist, she can provide practical training that builds the capacity, confidence and motivation of frontline health workers, while also addressing sustainable ways to strengthen health systems within resource poor settings.
Experience: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa
Languages: English (mother tongue), French, Kiswahili.
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POLICY AND STRATEGY ADVISOR:
Jeremy Colin
M.Sc in Water and Environmental Management for developing countries, Loughborough, UK.
Jeremy has undertake numerous assignments in water and sanitation sector in the past 13 years particularly in policy and strategy development, sector reform and decentralisation, strengthening service delivery to the poor, conducting evaluations, research and documentation, programme design and multi-stakeholder planning processes. Currently based in the UK as a freelance consultant.
African experience: Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Mozambique, Malawi, South Africa.
Asia: Indonesia, Laos, India, Bangladesh, Nepal.
Languages: English, French, Hindi/Urdu
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HYGIENE BEHAVIOUR CHANGE ADVISOR:
Lene Jensen
M.A. International Public Health, George Washington University. 2004.
Lene’s primary focus in the past 9 years has been on the effective use of behavior change communication to improve public health, as well as experience in designing and delivering innovative sanitation and hygiene promotion projects involving the hardware, financing, and software aspects of rural sanitation as well as facilitating strategic multi-stakeholder partnerships in the WASH sector. She has worked extensively for the World Bank based in Washington, USA and was advisor to the Ministry of Health in Vietnam where she facilitated the introduction of a successful CHC pilot programme.
Experience: South America: Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay, Panama.
Asia: Vietnam. Africa: Senegal and Tanzania.
Languages: Danish (mother tongue), English, Spanish, French, German.
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MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH RESEARCHER:
Dr. Rebecca King
PhD Social Anthropology University of Cambridge. 2004.
Currently a teaching fellow in the Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development (University of Leeds) lecturing on Maternal, Reproductive and Child Health, Rebecca’s experience for the past 8 years, has been mainly in qualitative research methods, focusing on health education for maternal, neonatal and child survival, tobacco control and ACSM for TB control, as well as school feeding, food security and livelihoods programmes. Direct experience in CHC Programme design in Guinea Bissau, developing the manual and materials as well as management of the programme, training, monitoring and evaluation.
African experience: Liberia and Guinea Bissau
Asian experience: Nepal, Bhutan.
Languages: English (mother tongue), Nepali (spoken), Kriol (spoken).
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COMMUNITY HEALTH CLUB TRAINER AND RESEARCHER:
Jason Rosenfeld
M.Sc. in Public Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, USA. 2007
Jason has been involved in African development for the past 11 years, since joining Peace Corps in Ghana. He researched malaria in Zambia and school water, sanitation and hygiene in Kenya, before joining Africa AHEAD as an intern in South Africa in 2008. After a year managing CHC programme in Kwa Zulu Natal, he joined Zimbabwe AHEAD, developing training material, proposal writing and conducting research using cell phone surveys, all providing him with invaluable field experience in training, and managing CHC projects and as well as innovative research into hygiene behaviour change. He is currently lecturing at the Univerity of Texas, San Antonio, and managing a CHC Project in Dominican Republic.
Experience: Ghana, Zambia, Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Dominican Republic.
Language: English (Mother tongue), Spanish, Dagbane.
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RESEARCH VOLUNTEERS
Research Volunteers are emerging professionals in Public Health, in the process of researching or recently qualified with a Masters or PhD, prepared to offer their time and expertise as a volunteer. They are seconded as interns to local organisations in developing countries to assist in advocacy and build capacity, provide training, and fund-raising, and conduct research in the CHC Approach. They provide constant new insights into the CHC Methodology through their research as it is adapted in different countries and contexts, co-publishing with Africa AHEAD Associated Practitioners.
They are self funded, as an intern, but are well placed to taken on work in Africa AHEAD projects should the opportunity arise. If they successfully complete this work, they may be invited to become Associated Practitioners.
ASSOCIATED RESEARCHERS
Those who have already contributed to research related to Community Health clubs are invited to become Associated Researchers of Africa AHEAD in recognition of thier contribution towards increased understanding of best practice in Development.
The following are duly recognised:
Josephine Mutandiro: Research and poster on herbal remedies: Co-author of manual for CHC Approach, Zimbabwe
Andrew Muringaniza: 15 years field experience: Case Study : Tsholotsho and Chipinge project, Zimbabwe
Regis Matimati: (Diploma from Institute of Water and Sanitation Development) Thesis on CHCs in Makoni District
Nancy Maksimovski: (M.Sc. Cape Town, 2009). Public Health. Poster on Africa AHEAD Project (KZN, S.Africa)
Luke Whaley (M.Sc. 2010, Cranfield), Community Water and Sanitation field work in Chipinge and Chiredzi district; thesis comparing the CLTS and CHC Approach in Zimbabwe
Matthew Waterkeyn (B.Eng.M.Sc. 2010, Cranfield) Environmental Water Management: mapped the geographical position of CHCs in Zimbabwe since 1995
Kate Brogan (MSc. 2010, Cranfield) Research assistant who collated the 2010 Annual Report
