Consultant: Nicky Davies
- Focus on programming for young people, care and support, organisational development, and NGO support systems
- Programme manager, project leader, trainer of facilitators, facilitator, technical support provider, writer, editor and publisher
- Experience working in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Central Europe
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Core competence areas
- HIV programmatic technical areas: young people’s involvement in community care, prevention and impact alleviation; care, support and treatment facilitation at the community level through community mobilisation and empowerment
- Organisational/institutional capacity building: establishment and improvement of NGO support intermediaries; advocacy skills building; documentation, networking, and information exchange; fundraising/resource mobilisation; building strategic partnerships (intra or inter-sectoral); organisational capacity assessments; development of medical benefits and long-term sickness workplace policies for NGOs and private sector; support for the NGO sector and business sector to engage with others
- Organisational and programme/project management: national and international initiatives, civil society and private sector
- Documentation and publishing: project managed the full development of diverse publications; writing, editing, and publishing
- Supporting the business response to HIV and AIDS: peer-to-peer advocacy, workplace and community programme design, corporate social responsibility programmes, advising national business coalitions, national and international
Work history
- Consultant/Director, Davies & Lee AIDS and Development Consulting, South Africa, May 2005 -
- Freelance HIV programming and organisational development consultant, southern Africa, January 2003 to May 2005
- Programme Officer for Organisational and Institutional Development, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, UK, February 2000 to December 2002
- Co-ordinator of the International Positive Action Programme, GlaxoWellcome HQ, UK, September 1997 to February 2000
- Founding Co-ordinator of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, on behalf of Sir Richard Sykes, Chairman of GlaxoWellcome, UK, September 1997 to February 2000
- Information Officer, Terrence Higgins Trust, UK, August 1996 to August 1997
Qualifications
- MSc Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK, 1996 to 1997. Dissertation entitled: To What Extent Can We Predict the Economic Impact of HIV on Uganda (Grade 1st). Secondary research
- BA (Hons) Anthropology, Grade 2:1, University of Durham, UK, 1993 to 1996. Dissertation entitled: Responses to HIV/AIDS Care in Thailand (Grade 1st). Primary research
Sample publications/resources produced
- (Content developer and author) For the International HIV/AIDS Alliance:
- HIV/AIDS NGO/CBO Support Toolkit (versions 1&2)
- Documenting and communicating HIV/AIDS work – a toolkit to support NGOs/CBOs
- Raising funds and mobilising resources for HIV/AIDS work – a toolkit to support NGOs/CBOs
- Advocacy in Action – a toolkit to support NGOs/CBOs responding to HIV/AIDS
- A facilitators’ guide to participatory workshops with NGOs/CBOs responding to HIV/AIDS
- (Finaliser, editor and publisher) 8 training manuals, policy documents and a CD-ROM for LATH Nigeria
- (Co-author, editor and publisher) Young People We Care! the first edition of a book produced by JSI Europe Zimbabwe HIV/AIDS Programme
- (Researcher and compiler) Training curriculum and manual: Community Mobilisation and Empowerment for Improved Access to Care, Support and Treatment (CMEIACST) for JSI Europe Zimbabwe HIV/AIDS Programme and Zimbabwe AIDS Network
References
- Richard Burzynski, Executive Director, International Council of AIDS Service Organisations
- Jeffrey O’Malley, Director, HIV/AIDS Practice, UNDP, USA
- Judith Sherman, Programme Director, Zimbabwe HIV/AIDS Programme, JSI Europe
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