Dr. Erin Stern is a professional in qualitative research, monitoring, evaluation, programme design, adaptation, and implementation with specialization in ending violence against women and girls (VAWG). She has 15 years of primary research or implementation experience across 24 countries in the Caribbean (Barbados, Grenada), South America (Bolivia, Peru), Eastern Europe (Moldova, Ukraine), the Middle East (Iraq, Lebanon, Syria), West Africa (Ghana), East Africa (DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda), Southern Africa (Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe), Southern Asia (Afghanistan), and Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Vietnam). Erin has provided programmatic and research support to a range of organizations including AIDS-Free World, CADRE, CARE International, Girl Effect, Inter-American Development Bank, KMG Ethiopia, Laterite, Oak Foundation, Promundo, Sonke Gender Justice, Transcape, UN Women, UNFPA, UNDP and World Bank. She holds a PhD in Public Health from the Women’s Health Research Unit with the University of Cape Town, and am an Honorary Associate Professor with the University of Cape Town. She is also an Honorary Assistant Professor with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Senior Associate with the Prevention Collaborative. Erin is a global expert on the evidence-based Indashyikirwa violence prevention model. She leads the qualitative evaluation of the first pilot in Rwanda and applied the research findings to design and strengthen this model. She has written more than 30 papers and briefs (i.e. fidelity brief) on Indashyikirwa, and have helped adapt or evaluate Indashyikirwa to 6 countries (DRC, Kenya Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, South Africa).
