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Ineke Buskens
Principal Investigator
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I am an independent research and facilitation consultant working in Africa and living in Cape Town, South Africa. I trained as a cultural anthropologist in Leiden, the Netherlands; critical and emancipatory perspectives influence my research. As a pioneer of women’s studies in the seventies, I (still) dream of a world where women can take responsibility for their own empowerment and be themselves in all ways. I design and facilitate experiential learning formats to build research, facilitation, leadership and teaching capacity in such a
way that participants and facilitators alike grow in self-knowledge and self-care. Currently I coordinate two multi-method research projects focusing on women’s empowerment, involving in total 20 research teams in 15 African countries. One of these projects is this Infant Feeding Research Project, funded by Bristol Meyer Squibb’s through Secure the Future. The other project is GRACE: Gender Research in Africa into iCt’s for Empowerment funded by the International Development
Research Centre and hosted by the Association for Progressive Communication (www.apcwomen.org/grace). I am also a student in Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment, Washington, USA. P.S. Ineke was distinguished as one of the nine Women with Purpose in South Africa in 1995.
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Alan Jaffe
Core Support team
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I am a medical practitioner with 15 years of experience in health promotion, mostly initiating and facilitating trainings, developing media and action-research. My main interests have been using creative and narrative arts for change & empowerment and HIV/AIDS advocacy. But I usually find myself in management & training, of health auxiliaries for deep rural areas – nurses doing clinical diagnosis and treatment, AIDS teams, schools nurses, community health workers, and environmental health officers. |
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Happiness Mkhatshwa
Action Researcher
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I am a Swazi woman with a training background in nursing, holding a Bachelors degree in Nursing Education and Administration and a Masters degree in Health Services Management. I’ve worked for the Ministry of Health for 18 years as a nurse, nurse manager and then programme manager in HIV/AIDS programmes; included Home Based Care, Sexually Transmitted Infections and Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission. I am currently the IFRP manager, and am married with two sons. |
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Ieshrit Sayeed
Action Researcher
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My background is in law and education, and am completing a Masters degree in Educational Administration and Social Policy. I have been involved with the IFRP since its inception in 2003 and conducting research in Hanover Park, Cape Town and Stellenbosch. I am passionate about development issues in Southern Africa particularly those related to HIV/Aids and gender studies. I live in Cape Town South Africa. |
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Katy Menell
Core Support team
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I have worked in the fields of education, training and counselling, with a particular focus on the use of the expressive arts for healing and community-building. In addition to working on the IFRP, I work as a family counsellor in the field of addiction at Kenilworth Clinic in Cape Town. I am currently a post-graduate psychology student at UNISA. |
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Ndapeua Shifiona
Action Researcher
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As a Namibian woman, I am an Action Researcher with the Infant Feeding Research Project since 2003, and am registered as a psychiatric nurse by profession, with a Masters Degree in Psychiatric Nursing. For the past fifteen years I’ve been lecturing at the University of Namibia, Faculty of Medical and Health Science in the Mental Health Unit, offering Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing to Basic Diploma Nursing Students. I‘ve also participated in research projects namely "Male Involvement in Sexual and Reproductive Health (Namibia)” and "Baseline Survey on Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS among adolescents and youth in Oshana Region (Namibia)”. I love community work among mentally ill and individuals living with HIV/AIDS. I’m a single mother of two sons. |
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Prof Bob Mash
Co - Principal Investigator
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Bob Mash is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care at Stellenbosch University. He has a particular interest in participatory action research, communication skills and motivational interviewing. He has worked for many years in the Khayelitsha District of Cape Town and manages postgraduate education in family medicine at the University. He is the editor of two books the Handbook of Family Medicine and the South African Family Practice Manual. |
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Giovanni Baldassini
Action Researcher
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I am a general practitioner in private practice in Eshowe KwaZulu Natal, South Africa; serving this community for the past 16 years. I graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1987, and have been practicing in rural settings in South Africa since then. Currently I am enrolled in the final year of my Masters degree in Family Medicine, at the University of Stellenbosch. Within the Infant Feeding Research Project (IFRP) I am a trainer of counselors in PMTCT. |
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