Assessing the impact of the Education Quality Improvement Programme in Tanzania (EQUIP-T)
Improving primary education by assessing a five-year education improvement strategy
Stephanie Brockerhoff
Stephanie Brockerhoff leads our Poverty and Social Protection team.
She supports governments and their partners in developing social protection policies and programmes that focus on reducing poverty, vulnerability, and disadvantage. As such, Stephanie works on projects that provide support to Governments and facilitate the development or reform of the social protection sector. She has worked directly with governments, foundations, NGOs, CSOs, development partners, and donors.
Stephanie has worked on a range of different aspects of social protection, including policy design, process reviews, and qualitative impact evaluation and assessments. Currently, her work is mostly focused on policy development, governance and strategies for the productive inclusion of the poor.
Stephanie is also the former head of our South Africa office where she focused on working directly with government officials and other stakeholders, as well as engagement in high level policy debates on social policy questions and reforms.
Stephanie holds a BA in Modern History and Politics, and an MPhil in Politics: Comparative Government from the University of Oxford.
Projects involving Stephanie Brockerhoff
Evaluation of the Kenya Hunger Safety Net Programme - Phase 3
We provide technical assistance to the Government of Kenya (GoK) as the Hunger Safety Net Programme moves to full GoK ownership and a comprehensive assessment of programme operations and impact of the GoK’s Economic Inclusion Programme.
Adaptive Social Protection: promoting knowledge sharing and innovation
We are working to enhance capacities for shock-responsive and crisis-adaptive design and implementation of social protection systems in partner countries.
Strengthen and ensure convergence and interoperability for digital social protection
We are working on standards and guidelines to foster an ecosystem for innovation in social protection in which technology solution providers can build interoperable products.
Evaluation of the Child Grants Programme in Lesotho
The Child Grants Programme (CGP) in Lesotho started in in 2009. We conducted evaluations of the programme in 2011-2013 to inform its national scale up and again in 2022 to assess its progress.
Midline evaluation of the South Africa Jobs Fund
Unemployment has remained at 25% in South Africa in recent years, and is particularly severe among young adults. In response, the South Africa Jobs Fund was created.
Assessing the Bumb’INGOMSO HIV prevention programme
The Bumb’INGOMSO HIV prevention programme aims to reduce HIV vulnerability among young women aged between 15 and 29, focusing on key high-risk groups in South Africa.
Maintains programme: Research supporting social services' adaptation to external shocks
This innovative FCDO-funded research programme in six countries explored how to improve the resilience of social services during and after external shocks
Latest updates from Stephanie Brockerhoff
Shock-responsive social protection systems: Policy brief series
How can social protection systems be used in disasters, as a complement to, or substitute for, humanitarian assistance?