I create innovative, high-impact & cost-effective communication content. I am equally comfortable working directly with UN & individual NGO technical teams, government officials, donors, field partners and beneficiaries.
I have built a virtual production company/network of national, pan-African & international creative production talent, which — together with my own broad spectrum of skills — can turn around key messages, so all we do is relevant to the local context.
Another facet to my work is training. This encompasses anyone from Africans in documentary filmmaking to UN officials in campaign development.
My most recent high-profile project was the re-writing of lyrics, as well as creating, producing & directing of the music video for a cover of “Pata Pata” (originally by Miriam Makeba) for a Covid-19 prevention awareness initiative. This version, sung & performed by African icon and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Anjélique Kidjo, was truly global, involving participants from Australia to Benin, Norway to Japan. It aired on CNN & BBC, & reached more than 150 million people on social media.
ISSUES I TYPICALLY COVER:
Covid-19 awareness-raising
Education
Gender inequality & GBV
HIV/AIDS awareness & education
Human & child trafficking
Refugees & displaced persons
Maternal & pre/post-natal health & nutrition
Youth
Child abuse
Children in conflict zones
CLIENTS I’VE WORKED WITH:
UNICEF Eastern & Southern Africa
International Organisation for Migration (IOM)
World Health Organisation (WHO)
GSMA Innovation Fund
UN Women
Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
UNICEF Somalia
UNICEF Kenya
UNICEF HQ (New York & Geneva)
UNICEF ESARO
June 2013 – October 2013
Content Producer: Peace-building through Education in Conflict Zones
IOM Ghana
September 2012 – February 2013
C4D Consultant for IOM and UNICEF
Zimbabwe
August 2007 – March 2008
UNICEF: C4D Campaign Director
Australia - Sydney
1997 – 2002
Presenter/Producer/Director for “Box Office” - Fox 8
UNICEF Somalia
June 2013 – October 2013
Campaign Manager: UNICEF Somalia and the Federal Government of Somalia
Italy
September 2010 – August 2012
Consultant Documentary Producer
Angola
October 2004 – January 2005
UNICEF: Campaign Creator
Australia - Sydney
1996 - 1997
TV producer, Channel 10: “Monday to Friday”
UNICEF Ethiopia
March 2013 – May 2013
Producer : High Level Radio Debate for UNICEF East & Southern Africa
Zimbabwe & Sri Lanka
2008 - 2010
Author for Lonely Planet
Angola
February 2005 – April 2005
PSI: Youth HIV/AIDs Radio Producer/Director
UK - London
January 1992 – December 1995
Freelance writer & researcher
The Economist, The Daily Mirror, Marie Claire & Sunday Telegraph (UK)