Prof. Fanie Cloete
Chairperson
Email: chair@samea.org.za
Professor Cloete has been involved in developing the academic and professional M&E capacity-building of a number of South African public sector agencies over the last few years including the Department of Public Governance where he is a Professor of Policy Analysis and Managenent, his former School of Public Management & Planning at the University of Stellenbosch, the UCT Section on Organisational Psychology, the Water Research Commission, PALAMA and numerous government departments and municipalities. Professor Cloete holds a LLB degree from the Rand Afrikaans University and a D Phil degree in Political Science from the University of Stellenbosch.
Ms. Candice Morkel
Deputy Chairperson
Candice Morkel is the Senior Manager: Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) in the Office of the Premier in the Eastern Cape. She has spent more than 10 years in the NGO field as a development practitioner and researcher, focusing on issues of domestic and family violence. She lectured in the Department of Peace Studies and International Relations at the North West University, and managed the university’s academic Research Unit in the Graduate School of Business and Government Leadership.
Ms Morkel has been involved in policy analysis, governance, monitoring and evaluation in the Premier’s Office in the North West and the Eastern Cape Provinces. She holds a Masters Degree (cum laude) in Conflict Management and Transformation as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work, both from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth.
Mr. Kola Jolaolu
Treasurer
Email: treasurer@samea.org.za
Mr. Jolaolu is an economist, chartered accountant, certified project management professional and an M&E practitioner with over 24 years experience in investment, retail and mortgage banking; accounting, auditing, and financial management; project management and consulting in business re-engineering, forensic investigations, risk management, entrepreneurship development, strategy and policy development, business development and general management across a broad range of public and private sector institutions in Nigeria, Uganda, and South Africa. He has consulted for many high profile institutions among which are: The Office of the Auditor-General, Petroleum Corporation of South Africa (PetroSA), National Ports Authority, Office of the President of South Africa, Provincial Governments & Municipalities across South Africa, Department of International Affairs and Cooperation, Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Robben Island, etc. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, member of the Project management Institute in USA and South Africa and the American Evaluation Association. He currently the Managing Director of Ngubane & Co. – a firm of chartered accountants, forensic investigators, M&E consultants, business and information technology consultants
Ms. Anzél Schönfeldt
Secretariat/Information Management/Website
Email: secretariat@samea.org.za
Ms. Schönfeldt is an experienced research practitioner with strong technical, analytical and information system management skills. She has worked in various industries including government, donor, private and tertiary education sectors and has experience in data quality audits, system design and development, quantitative and qualitative analysis, training, and report writing for donors such as the Gates Foundation, USAID/PEPFAR, USDoL, the Global Fund and various government departments. She has received numerous academic awards, including scholarships from the National Research Foundation. Currently employed as a technical specialist in data quality, she holds a masters degree in Psychology from the University of Pretoria.
Dr. Donna Rae Podems
International Liaisons/Broad-Based Monitoring and Evaluation Skills Development
Dr Podems has conducted evaluations, developed M&E systems, and trained on M&E for the government, nonprofits, and the private sector. As a generalist, her evaluation practice ranges from working in environment, human rights, education, HIV/AIDS, and other social intervention areas prominent in SA. Dr Podems holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies (Evaluation and Organizational Development) from the Union Institute and University, Ohio, USA. Dr. Podems is currently employed by ICF MACRO
Dr. Sefiso B. Khumalo
Special Interest Groups/Regional Chapters
Dr Sefiso Khumalo is a Senior Manager at Government Employee Pension Fund. He is vested with building Monitoring and Evaluation that will contribute towards the achievement of organisational goals. Dr Khumalo has recognisable experience in Public Service Monitoring and Evaluation System (PSMES). He holds a doctorate in education from Tshwane University of Technology. He has also attended a course on Monitoring and Evaluation of HIV/AIDS Programs offered by the University of Pretoria’s School of Health Systems and Public Health. In January 2007, Dr Khumalo attended the 4th Monitoring and Evaluation Conference of the African Evaluation Association in Niamey, Niger as part of the Public Services Commission’s delegation.
Previously he has worked in the Public Services Commission (PSC) in the Monitoring and Evaluation Branch and Evaluation and Analysis unit of the Gauteng Department of Education. In 2000 and 2001, while serving as a deputy principal of a high school in the North West Province, he was seconded to the provincial Whole-school Evaluation Supervisory unit where he was involved in piloting Whole-school Evaluation. Dr Khumalo is also one of the National Research Foundation recipients of the doctoral fellowship program which enabled him to study at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in the United State of America for a short period.
Ms. Christel Jacob
NGOs and Strategic Partners
Christel has worked as a researcher for over ten years, initially within the education development sector before moving into the rural community development sector. Christel has worked with clients from International Donor agencies, Non-Government and Community Based Organisations, Government – at National and local level as well as with Research Institutions. She has worked with organizations operating in Senegal, Kenya, Uganda, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Lesotho, Swaziland, South Africa, and has undertaken and/or contributed to research in all these countries. Christel specialises in designing monitoring and evaluation strategies for development sector organizations, programmes and projects, but is experienced in a variety of other development research activities. Christel has a Masters in Applied Research Psychology from the University of Natal.
Mr. David Molapo
General Business and Policy Development
Email: businesssector.policy@samea.org.za
David J Molapo is the Managing Director and CEO of MK Consulting a company consulting in development interventions research, planning, monitoring, evaluation and policy analysis. He has completed an MSc in Economics at the National University of Lesotho. He also has other professional qualifications which include the coveted Management Development Programme from WITS School of Public & Development Management, and Programme for Management Development from Gordon Institute of Business Science. He is currently completing his Master of Management degree in Public Policy with WITS School of Public & Development Management. David has held leadership and technical positions at different organisations including Kagiso Trust, Lesotho Highlands Development Authority, Lesotho Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Lesotho Highlands Development Authority and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research giving him a wealth of experience in public policy analysis, project management, programme management, economic analysis, impact assessment and investment promotion in the transport, social, SMME, water and business advocacy sectors respectively. David is also a certified assessor in M & E unit standards. He was part of a task team that participated in the development of the M & E Level 4 and Level 5 unit standards. He is affiliated to European Association of Transport, Economic Society of South Africa and Black Management Forum.
Dr. Zodwa Ngobese
Private Sector and CSI Liaison
Zodwa Ngobese is an occupational heath practitioner with considerable experience in occupational and public health. Her areas of expertise include research; project management; development of occupational health and wellness programmes; monitoring and evaluation of health programmes and health promotion. She has worked with a number of entities, largely in the private sector; with companies such as Robertsons Spices (Pty) Ltd. and Sovereign Health (Pty) Ltd. At Robertsons Spices she started as an occupational health medical practitioner and ended up heading their occupational health division. At Sovereign Health she headed Patient Care and has also served as a consultant for South African Breweries; Momentum Medical Aid Administrators (Pty) Ltd.; Nampak; Spoornet; Unilever and Mangosuthu University of Technology. At public sector she worked for the Department of Social Development and the Department of Labour with the Office of the Compensation Commissioner; and was one of three consultants who provided technical assistance in putting in place a HIV & AIDS multi-sectoral Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) system for the province of KwaZulu-Natal Province; a project funded by the Department for International Development (DFID). At Mangosuthu University of Technology she coordinates the institutional HIV and AIDS programme and chairs the HEAIDS institutional HIV and AIDS committee. She hold an MB.Ch.B from the University of Natal, Durban; an MPH from the University of Limpopo, in Pretoria; and post-graduate diplomas in Occupational Health and Monitoring and Evaluation from the University of Free State and Stellenbosch University respectively.
Ms. Mairy Tsigoida
Fundraising/Marketing
Mairy Tsigoida is a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at Khulisa Management Services and part of Khulisa’s team of auditors. Prior to joining Khulisa she was a senior accountant for Public Sector, International Funding Institutions (IFI) Division, at PricewaterhouseCoopers. She has experience in strategic planning and capacity building for non-profit organizations. She has assisted with performance measurement and skills transfer assignments as well as compliance audits. She has overseen monitoring and evaluation (M & E) projects which have been results-oriented with specific targeted results aligned to log frames and performance indicators. She has done analysis on qualitative and quantitative results of M & E projects based on donor methodologies, particularly the European Union (EU). She also attended the EU’s participatory workshops on monitoring and evaluating projects. Mairy has conducted Data Quality Assessments in the Health sector for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and was a verifier for the verification of certification studies in West African Cocoa Sector particularly in Côte d’Ivoire. She recently travelled to the United States to conduct Partner Performance Assessments in the Washington DC/Maryland area as well as in New York City for the Coca Cola Africa Foundation (TCCAF). The partners selected were Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership and the Africa-America Institute.
Dr. Ray Basson
Academic Publications/Knowlege Content and Research
Ray Basson completed his MA [ED] in the School of Educational Research, University of Lancaster, UK, and his PhD in the College of Education, University of Oregon at Eugene, USA. He taught English in secondary schools, innovating both in the classroom as well as in sport and experiential education training youth leaders across southern Africa and in the UK. His specialization in curriculum lead to a position in the Faculty of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand to establish courses in curriculum studies leading to post-graduate degrees In the School, he was part of team which laid the foundations for the taught Master degree programme in the Faculty and presently the norm within and outside the University. He has served in multiple positions till Deputy Dean of the Education Faculty. He has presented many papers at conferences, published papers in academic journals and research reports, on self-provision of education in informal settlement, empowering squatters to monitor quality in HIV/AIDS provision, integrated curriculum design, curriculum innovation, amongst others. He is the African Editor of the International Journal of Leadership in Education, A rated by the European Science Foundation, Editorial Board member of Education as Change, and reviews articles for many local education journals. As co-leader of research projects, one to include mildly challenged learners in disadvantaged mainstream schools a second aimed at developing curriculum literacy in teachers, he uses the tools of collaborative evaluation in close association with Stanford University, to promote sustainable change and self-determination in teachers.