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Kirstan Hawkins
Director
Kirstan Hawkins has over 20 years' experience as a social
researcher, Her key expertise includes social analysis and appraisal
of reproductive and sexual health programmes, including the elaboration
of rights-based approaches and analysis of barriers to access to health
services; HIV & AIDS policy development and programme design at
senior level with government and donors; participatory approaches to
design and monitoring of health interventions; development of
programmes focusing on young people including community based
initiatives; user perspectives and quality of care of health services,
especially in relation to NGO projects in primary health. Prior to
joining Options, Kirstan worked with the Centre for Development
Studies, Swansea University, and the International Planned
Parenthood Federation. She has particular experience in Africa, Asia
and Latin America.
 Contact Kirstan Hawkins
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Joanne Hemmings
Reproductive Health Research Specialist
Joanne is
a specialist in ethnographic methods, demographic techniques and survey
design and the integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches
in reproductive and sexual health. She is experienced in designing,
implementing and analysing the results of a range of qualitative
approaches. She is highly skilled in designing and testing sexual
behaviour survey instruments, including development of risk behaviour
indicators. Joanne has experience disseminating research at community
and policy level, and interpreting and communicating statistical and
ethnographic data for non-expert audiences. She has training skills in
demographic and statistical research methods and qualitative methods
and analysis. Country experience in Malawi, Laos, Cambodia, the
Caribbean region, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Guatemala, Syria, Nigeria, Mexico,
Guyana and the UK.
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Ben Rolfe
Research and Reproductive Health Specialist
Ben Rolfe is a health services and social research
specialist with ten years' experience researching health service access
and behaviour change. A specialist in Participatory Ethnographic
Evaluation Research (PEER) methods, Ben has a particular interest in
working with hard-to-reach populations. He has strong track record
supporting organisations in conducting participatory research, and to
use research evidence for design and decision-making. His work focuses
around both behaviour change, and supporting the development of
accountable and demand responsive sexual and reproductive health
services. He has a wide range of country experience, particularly in
South and East Africa, Cambodia, India, and Nepal.
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Rachel Grellier
Southern Africa Regional Representative, Social Development Specialist
Rachel Grellier is a social development specialist with experience
of HIV & AIDS, gender, reproductive and sexual health. She has led
situation/impact assessments, output-to-purpose reviews (OPRs),
evaluations and reviews and is experienced in using a range of methods
to obtain household, community and stakeholder perspectives. She has
undertaken consultancies and research on national and multi-sectoral
socio-economic impacts of HIV & AIDS and mitigation strategies in
southern, east, central and west Africa.
Rachel has experience in
reviewing and evaluating issues of gender, equity, rights, poverty etc.
within projects and programmes. Rachel also has over ten years'
expertise in the UK and overseas designing, undertaking, managing and
supervising research studies on HIV & AIDS and maternal and
reproductive health. Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, Rachel is Options' regional representative for Southern Africa.
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Piya Shome
PEER Projects Manager
Piya manages the PEER projects. She
has experience working with international donors including DFID and KfW.
She completed her MSc in Globalisation and Development from the
Department of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. Piya comes
with experience of working voluntarily at various NGOs such as Save the
Children and British Red Cross.
Professor Emeritus Neil Price
Academic Partner, Swansea University
Neil has 30 years’ consultancy and research experience in social, institutional and policy analysis in over 30 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the Middle East. His consultancy work has included policy analysis, programme design and appraisal, and monitoring and evaluation in HIV & AIDS, reproductive and maternal health. Neil has led programme design teams for DFID and many other development agencies. Neil is the lead academic partner in the development of the PEER methodology. Contact Neil Price via
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The
PEER team is a collaboration between Options and Swansea University.
The team specialises in providing
capacity building and technical assistance in the PEER approach, and in
translating the results into actionable implications for the design of
communications, advocacy strategies and programmes.
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