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insideout was established in 2000 by Natasha Nel and Kerstin Waddell and is a collaboration of professionals providing evaluation and monitoring services to public and development sector organisations in Southern Africa.

As a 100% recognised BEE contributor, insideout is committed to assist in the development of evaluation capacity among black South Africans, with a special interest in promoting women. Of the core team and network of associates we draw on, 80% are women and 70% are black. insideout also prioritises the training of black evaluators within the organisation.

M&E Specialists and Trainers

Ms. Kerstin Waddell (MA Research Psychology) has worked as a senior monitoring and evaluation specialist on more than 50 evaluations throughout Southern Africa and within different focus areas, including HIV and AIDS, orphaned and vulnerable children, advocacy and lobbying, human rights, youth at risk, crime prevention, gender, civil society, poverty, training and local government. She has worked throughout South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda, Mozambique, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia, Niger, Kenya and Zambia. She is also experienced in running practical training courses in monitoring and evaluation for NPOs and government representatives throughout Southern Africa. Her most recent evaluation work focused on aid effectiveness, evaluating the implementation of the Paris Declaration in South Africa.

Ms. Natasha Nel (MA Research Psychology; Diploma Organisational Development) is a senior monitoring and evaluation specialist and has worked at the government (policy) level, grassroots, nongovernmental and donor levels. She has experience in training, evaluating interventions and developing M&E systems for various projects in South Africa, Kenya, Swaziland, Lesotho, Kenya, Mozambique, Niger and Zambia. She has extensive experience in participatory evaluation and training in the Southern African context and has developed qualitative research and evaluation methodologies that have been used with a range of clients in various circumstances. She has presented technical papers at evaluation conferences in the United States and Africa. She is a member of both the American and the African Evaluation Associations, and has served on the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association board.

Sarah Shelmerdine (MA Psychology) is currently completing her doctorate in Psychology. Ms Shelmerdine has worked as a part time lecturer at the University of Cape Town since 2002, offering courses in qualitative research methods and social psychology. She has Masters-level training in programme evaluation and has worked in the field as an independent evaluator for the past two years. In the past Ms Shelmerdine has worked in a research capacity at the Centre for Social Science Research (UCT), the Medical Research Council and Stellenbosch University. As an associate of insideout she has worked on numerous donor-funded evaluations and has conducted M&E training workshops for the following provincial government departments: Health, Public Works and Transport, Office of the Premier and Education in various provinces.