- Menstrual Health and Disorders
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Political Conflict and Governance
- International Development and Aid
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Development, Ethics, and Society
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Education, Leadership, and Health Research
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Children's Rights and Participation
- African history and culture analysis
University of KwaZulu-Natal
2021-2025
University of the Western Cape
2019
Stellenbosch University
2018
Health workers in 21 government health facilities Zambia and South Africa linked spatial organisation of HIV services material items signifying HIV-status (for example, coloured client cards) to the risk People Living with (PLHIV) 'being seen' or identified by others. Demarcated services, distinctive flow associated-items were considered especially distinguishing. Strategies circumvent any resulting stigma mostly involved PLHIV avoiding and/or reducing contact visibility through alterations...
The global growth in menstrual research over the past two decades has, among other things, emphasised role of maternal figures preparing adolescent girls for menarche. Adult women, including mothers, grandmothers, sisters and aunts, are primarily vested educating girl children about menstruation, guiding their adaptation to related physical, psychosocial sociocultural developments. Despite key facilitating preparation, less is known experiences adult women as recipients facilitators these...
Thought and commentary surrounding the upsurge of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) their involvement in design implementation development Global South are accompanied by an unrelenting set contradictions self-replicating inconsistencies. These often embedded sector’s nomenclature, ideological underpinnings, intent impact. Opposing bands scholarship have sustained these tensions securing NGOs both within ambit developmental thought practice also criticisms waged against western...
<title>Abstract</title> Healthy experiences of menstruation require access to material and nonmaterial resources including sanitation facilities, privacy comfort infrastructure, hygiene pain management products as well accurate empowering menstrual education. These remain inaccessible for many women adolescents thereby compromising their participation in various aspects socioeconomic advancement schooling, work, personal development. For adolescents, inadequate essential compromises...
Non-governmental socioeconomic intervention exists within a framework and history of racialised proximity to power privilege. The arrangements race in beyond the sector along with inequitable distribution material nonmaterial resources have therefore been used affirm sector's affinity colonial relations exploitation racism. This paper recounts genealogy this outlines ways which current poverty, non-state mediation interpolate historical through interventions. Data collected non-governmental...
The primary feature of NGO development intervention is the role that organisations play in extending access to services and opportunities marginalised populations. Participation, however, as an ideal central organising principle these efforts, comes with a host complexities requires careful navigation cross-cutting contexts within which exist function. This paper discusses intricacies participation context youth-centred initiatives carried out Makhanda South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province....