Our network of associates make us as strong as a spiders web

Our partners and associates are some of the leaders in their field. AfricaScope prides itself in being able to call these consultants and organisations our partners. We believe that the best approach to addressing the needs of clients is to put together the best possible team and the most innovative solutions. Our partners assist us in providing our services and products.

Michael O Donovan: is a specialist in the analysis and management of large socio-economic and political databases.  He is currently a director of Hlakanaphila Analytics  - a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the improvement of quantitative analysis in the social sciences.He is a specialist in the use of statistical and data mining techniques. His focus areas include crime, poverty and inequality, migration, socio-economic development  and political behaviour.

Dr Ariane Neethling: Dr Ariane Neethling obtained a PhD (Statistics) from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2004. She has extensive experience having worked for organizations like the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). She has lectured at the Universities of Pretoria, Stellenbosch and Free State. As a sampling consultant she has worked extensively with market research and social science organizations in South Africa.

Prof. Tom de Jong: Prof. de Jong holds a PhD in Geography from the Utrecht University in The Netherlands.  He is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University and the managing director of a Stellenbosch-based geo-information consultancy firm, TdJ Consultancy. He is also the original developer of the FlowMap software and is recognised as one of the leading experts in undertaking accessibility or service location modelling. Prof. de Jong has undertaken many projects in South Africa and across the world. He was part of an Human Sciences Reseach Council (HSRC) team that did accessibility modeling of schools for the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education. He has also worked extensively with the Council For Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) on projects within South Africa. His consultancy in South Africa works both in the public and private sector.

Andrew Whiteford: Andrew is an economist based in New Zealand with considerable experience in regional economic analysis.  He pioneered the estimation of sub-national poverty and human development indicators in South Africa for the Human Sciences Research Council.  He later developed a comprehensive database of regional economic, labour market and development indicators for the Southern Africa office of Global Insight.  He is currently developing regional poverty and economic output indicators for AfricaScope. (http://www.infometrics.co.nz)

Philip Johnson: Philip Johnson is a protected area and tourism development planner with over 16 years of experience and a further 14 years experience in ecological field research, environmental impacts assessments and wildlife conservation communications.  Philip has developed extensive experience that links wildlife conservation to sustainable tourism development, appropriate private sector involvement and the meaningful participation of and benefit to local communities.  These include tourism appraisals, protected area and regional tourism strategic plans and protected area management and tourism development plans. Philip has also undertaken a number of project feasibility studies and mid-term and final evaluations of donor-funded projects.  He has worked in most southern African countries, including Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe, as well as in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana and Russia.