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PERSONAL AND CONTACT DETAILS: NOPASIKA FIDELIA MAFORAH (PhD)

ID NO: 530411 07940 89 0 Email: pasiphido@yahoo.com

CURRENT POSITION:

Managing Director: Xclusive Spa & Training Academy

Physical Address (Office): Suite 4 Dada Complex Cnr Nelson Mandela & Aerodrome Crescent Mafikeng 2745 Postal Address: PO Box 4558 Mmabatho 2735 Telephone: +27 18 381 6682 Fax: +27 18 381 3685 Mobile: +27 82 885 7462 Company Email: synercon@telkomsa.net

Managing Director: Synercon Consulting Consultant

QUALIFICATIONS Doctor of Social Science, University of North West Master of Social Science, University of South Africa Honours of Bachelor of Social Science, University of South Africa Bachelor of Social Science, University of Fort Hare
NON-DEGREE COURSES:

Management Development Programme: UCT Graduate School Senior Executive Programme: Wits Graduate School Executive Leadership Programme: Harvard Business School Health Systems Research for Evaluation & Management : University of Western
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Cape Basic Skills in Epidemiology: University of Western Cape Fundamentals of Project Management Advanced Project Management: UCT Graduate School
COURSES WITHIN THE NATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK:

Conduct Facilitation Using a Variety of Methodologies Conduct Outcome-based Assessment Conduct Moderation of Outcomes-based Assessment
WORK EXPERIENCE AND EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: CONSULTANT: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (UNDP) *HIV AND AIDS *COMMUNITY CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT

2005 to date

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Development and refinement of CCE-CC knowledge products, including national implementation guidelines, a strategic note and a training manual; Provision of technical support for quality assurance, capacity strengthening, and consolidation of CCE programs in the region, aligning the CCE-CC practice with national strategic plans and UN country team mandates; Advising UNDP Country Offices on partnership development with government ministries and Civil Society Organizations (CSO) for implementation and evaluation of CCE-CC; Led CCE-CC in-country skills-building workshops, on-site support visits, skills refinement , and documentation; Capacity building of 240 CCE-CC national trainers/coaches from government and CSOs in South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Uganda; Enrollment of United Nations Country Teams (UNCT) for joint implementation of CCE towards attainment of 3x5 targets in South Africa, Botswana and Lesotho.

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2002 TO DATE

MANAGING DIRECTOR: SYNERCON CONSULTING

Overall Management Responsibilities and Key Performance Areas: 1. Provide technical support on training and development programmes and projects to ensure alignment and compliance with Seta requirements in line with the Skills Development Act; 2. Provide technical support to assessors on all training and development as well as skills programmes provided; 3. Moderate all training and development programmes offered by the company; 4. Provide technical support on all research projects, i.e. social surveys, feasibility studies, Rapid Appraisal Studies, Impact Assessment studies, casecontrol studies and Monitoring & Evaluation projects; 5. Advising on development of competencies and mechanisms for

performance, efficiency and delivery of services on all development and social facilitation programmes and projects; 6. 7. Provide technical support for HIV/AIDS and other capacity building projects; Develop proposals, technical papers and positional statements emerging HIV and AIDS issues; 8. Represent Synercon on national and international health and social on

development networks in the region and in South Africa; 9. Facilitate adaptation and adoption of HIV and AIDS capacity assessment tools for utilisation in other health and social development programmes; 10. Provide leadership for capacity building activities for Synercon (four technical advisors and 8 support staff) through staff retreats;
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Manage inputs and outputs of consultants, including development of scope of work.

GLOBAL CONSULTING GROUP:

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2000 2002 Key Responsibilities: 1. 2.

OPERATIONS DIRECTOR

Facilitation of all training and Development initiatives of the Company; Supervision of staff (internal and contract) on training and development projects;

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Providing advice and support on all development of competencies and

mechanisms for performance, efficiency and delivery of services on all development and social facilitation programmes and projects;
4. Facilitation of the accreditation process of the Company and training and development policy formulation and implementation; 5. 6. Project Monitoring and Evaluation; Responsible for the following management and administrative functions:    Budget Formulation and Control Project Cash flow Management Reporting to the Executive Chairman and the Board of Directors.
CHIEF DIRECTOR: SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT NATIONAL DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

1998 2000

Overall Management Responsibilities: 1. 2. Responsible for four directorates with a staff complement of 48; Responsible for development management of the National Poverty Relief Fund of about R200m per annum with focus on SMMEs and special emphasis on economic empowerment of youth and women; 3. Designed disbursement mechanisms including monitoring and evaluation systems for the Poverty Relief Programme; 4. Represented the Department on National Task Teams on Poverty and Development; 5. Coordinated Governments activities on Development and Poverty-related

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Summits and Delegations; 6. 7. Facilitation of enterprise development throughout the country; Developed a variety of social development models including the microlending and the social goals model with the UNDP and ILO.
DIRECTOR: SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OF THE WESTERN CAPE

1994 - 1998

Championed the establishment of the first Social Development Directorate in South Africa in line with the RDP. Responsibilities and highlights include the following: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Transformation of the Directorate; Establishment of the Provincial Development Council; Formulation and implementation of Social Development Policy; Implementation of the Social Development Policy; Formulation and Implementation of the Social Auxiliary Work cadre in social development; 6. Facilitation and Management of the Presidential Lead Programme of establishing Multi-Purpose Centers throughout the Western Cape Province; 7. Successful implementation of Seven (7) Multi-purpose Centers throughout the Western Cape Province. Medical Researcher 1993 1995 Development, Gender & Womens Programme Specialist Scientist (Senior Researcher) Coordinated and implemented research projects in the areas below using a variety of research methodologies ranging from quantitative to qualitative approaches:

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1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Poverty and Development; Gender Issues; Health and Womens Issues; Childrens Health; Adolescent Sexuality including contraception and abortion.
LECTURER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN

1990 1993 1.

Lecturer: Clinical Social Work and Group Work to undergraduate and masters students.

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Supervision of research projects for under- and post-graduate students.

LECTURER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK UNIVERSITY OF NORTH WEST

1988 1990

Key performance areas included the following:

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Lecturing in interpersonal/clinical social work. Teaching and promoting research under and post graduate students; Supervising social work and Psychology Honours and Masters Students interpersonal skills development programmes at the Centre;

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Major highlight was the founding of the Ipelegeng Child and Family Centre, now attached to the Psychology Department at the School of Social Science at the University.

1982 - 1988

TRAINER/SENIOR THERAPIST CHAMBER OF MINES

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Part of the first EAP group in South Africa; Development and implementation of EAP policies and procedures for the Chamber of Mines

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Counselling of individuals and families of mineworkers on all Chamber of

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Mines around Gauteng; 4. Individual and group counselling for dysfunctional individuals and families;

5. Training coordination and implementation on key social issues. 6. Facilitation of wellness programmes for mine workers and their families.

1978 1982

SOCIAL WORKER (CASE WORKER/PSYCHIATRIC) DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, MAFIKENG

Key Responsibilities included providing generic and mental health social work ranging from probation work, casework, group and family therapy and community work/community development.

RESUME OF WORK EXPERIENCE AND EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Dr Maforah has a long history of lecturing, research promotion and supervision for Honours, Masters and Doctoral Students; as well as training, education and development in a variety of fields. She is currently a part-time lecturer at University of the North West. In her early years in the Social and Mental Health field, Dr Maforah worked and trained in the following sectors: research, substance abuse, family and gender issues, child care and recently HIV and AIDS, among others. She was the principal founder of the

Ipelegeng Child and Family Centre attached to the University of North West where she coached and mentored under and post graduate Social Work and Psychology students.

As a Senior Researcher for the Medical Research Council in Cape Town, Dr Maforah did extensive research in Urbanisation and Health, Poverty, Development, Womens Health and Gender issues. She has had wide exposure as a university lecturer (University of Cape Town and University of the North West). She has travelled extensively abroad as a visiting research fellow. She has delivered papers at local and international seminars and conferences since 1985. She joined the public sector in 1994 and served in the senior

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management echelon for 6 years where she led many overseas delegations on womens issues, poverty and development. During this period, she was part of task teams which pioneered major transformation processes in this country; among these, the

championing of a number of development strategies, models and programmes which informed social development and integrated rural development programmes in the country.

Dr Maforah has been consulting in social development and broad development management interventions for the past nine years with a wide range of clients in both the public and private sectors. As a born and bred South African, she has thorough knowledge of the Country and its Provinces; speaks and understands most local languages and cultural idioms. She is the author and co-author of numerous journal articles as well as technical reports; and serves in a number of professional national and international bodies. To name a few: The SA Epidemiological Association, the Association for Women in Development, the National Womens Network and the Harvard Business School Alumni.

She has presented papers and made presentations at a number of national and international research conferences and seminars. Examples of these include: visiting research fellow at a Womens health Course at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (1993); visiting lecturer at the Epidemiological Research methods at Umea University in Sweden (1994); Womens health conference, KEMRI, Nairobi (1995); Abortion matters, Amsterdam: The Netherlands (1997).

Dr Maforah has been consulting for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on HIV/AIDS programmes [Leadership Development Programme (LDR) and Community Capacity Enhancement Programme (CCEP)] since 2005; and has to date been involved in the regional training-of-trainers programme in this regard. She has completed her recent mission with the UNDP in April 2010: The most recent assignment was the Lesotho Mission on Skills Refinement on CCEP involving fifty-four Trainers and Facilitators drawn from both the public and private sectors including civil society representing the three
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district municipalities where CCEP is being implemented.

As part of the core implementation team, Dr Maforah initiated and implemented the Community Capacity Programme for the United Nations in South Africa (three Provinces: KZN, Limpopo, Eastern Cape), Botswana and Lesotho. She is also a regional consultant for Salvation Army Welfare Organisation (SWASO), a Washington-based Organisation and has successfully implemented their training of trainers programme in two countries: Zambia and Uganda. To this end, her work has exposed her to development and practice of social development models and interventions in the region and internationally from highly scientific to the more community-based participatory facilitation programmes.

Dr Maforah is an accredited facilitator, assessor and moderator with Services Seta; and has demonstrated commitment to the promotion of Skills Development and the NSF principles and policies for the betterment of the lives of historically disadvantaged individuals and communities in particular women and children.

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