Development and the HIV Epidemic: A forward-looking evaluation of the approach of the UNDP HIV and Development Programme

APPENDIX 6: EVALUATION TEAM MEMBERS

Bruce Parnell, Evaluation Team Leader, is a public health programmes adviser at the Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia. He works to promote and sustain effective responses to the HIV epidemic, mostly in Australia and in the Asia/Pacific region. Bruce was previously manager of the education programme of the Victorian AIDS Council, an Australian community-based organisation. He has a Master of Public Health degree, which follows his first degree in philosophy. Bruce was a participant in a UNDP HIV and Development workshop in 1994, and has acted as a short-term consultant to UNDP projects in China and Myanmar. He recently provided process consultancy for development of the Philippines National HIV/AIDS Strategy, and is developmental evaluation adviser for Australian Red Cross projects in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and China.

Gro Therese Lie is a psychologist and a senior researcher at the Research Centre for Health Promotion and Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Norway. From 1988 to 1995 she was involved in the Joint Tanzanian Norwegian AIDS Project (MUTAN), a cooperation between the Ministry of Health and the University of Dar es Salaam,Tanzania and the University of Bergen, Norway. During these years she lived for three years in Tanzania and was responsible for the development of HIV/AIDS Counselling Programmes in the regions of Arusha and Kilimanjaro. She has worked with participatory action research and participatory evaluation approaches in the African context and has development practice from hospital-based and community-based activities. Gro Lie has participated in UNDP HIV and Development workshops in Africa and Australia. She has published several papers and book-chapters on AIDS-related issues.

Juan Jacobo Hernández is the general coordinator and founder of Colectivo Sol which is a voluntary organisation originally set up as a gay rights group in 1981, and has been working on HIV/AIDS and sexual issues since 1983. He is the Executive Editor of the Latin American edition of the international newsletter 'Prevention and Control C AIDS Action', and is the secretary of the Latin America and the Caribbean office of the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO). Amongst other memberships of key AIDS organisations at national and international levels, he has written, directed and acted several theatrical pieces associated with the HIV epidemic.

Cindy Robins is a founder of the International Community of Women Living With HIV/AIDS and a North American Key Contact of ICW since 1992, working to improve the situation of women living with HIV/AIDS globally through the promotion of effective responses and capacity development. Cindy has a Master's Degree in Herbology and is now studying other alternative and complementary therapies. She participated in the UNDP SPR consultation meeting in 1992 and the January 1993 workshop on HIV transitions. She has been involved in the planning and implementation of various international AIDS conferences, and is on the National Advisory Committee for the International Conference on HIV/AIDS in Vancouver, July 1996. She is a member of Health Canada's Steering Group on International Coordination and was previously volunteer coordinator of Voices of Positive Women, a Canadian provincial organisation, and a director-at-large of the Toronto PWA Foundation. Cindy has also been involved in HIV projects in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia and China, the first three with the support of the Programme.