Selection of Projects

Common Approach for Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH)
Client: The Pacific Regional Infrastructure Facility (PRIF)

In 2025 I led the development of an aligned approach for planning and implementing measures to safeguard against the risk of ‘sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment’ (SEAH). This approach was developed in collaboration with a technical working group and i) aligned with the PSEAH approaches of PRIF partners (6 donors and 2 multilateral banks). ii) integrated international good practice (CAPSEAH, IFC etc) and iii) was relevant to the contexts of delivering infrastructure in Pacific Island Countries. The approach was socialized through a guidance note, a series of interactive presentations and a train the trainer approach.

Good Practice Infrastructure Projects (GPIPs)
Client: BAPPENAS and USAID

^{Sarah in a community consultation with women traders at a traditional market planned for upgrade in North Sulawesi, Indonesia}

In 2024, I worked as the Gender and Social Inclusion lead. My role involved developing feasibility studies for five transport and logistics infrastructure projects in Sumatra, Sulawesi, and Bali. It was a fast moving assignment with many parts. I worked with a national team of social and gender specialists, and designed research tools and methodologies for baseline studies. We trained and worked with local partners to design a grievance redress. This included a survivor-centered approach to counter Sexual Exploitation Abuse and Harassment (SEAH) and Trafficking in Persons (TIP).

Blue Pacific Finance Hub
Client: Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Global Environment Facility (GEF)

^{Sarah interviewing staff from a women’s NGO in Tuvalu about blue economic priorities.}

In 2023 I worked on a full proposal for the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to design a pipeline of projects for blue ocean positive economic growth in four Pacific Island countries. I traveled to the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Kiribati for consultations with government ministries and civil society organizations.

Lae Market Redevelopment, PNG
Client: Economic and Social Infrastructure Program (ESIP) and DFAT

^{Fruit sellers at the old Lae Main Market, in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.}

In 2022 I assembled a team of local social scientists and conducted a rapid baseline GEDSI study of the Lae Main Market. This report included a list of recommendations for the design of the new Lae market and future rebuild and management

Circular Economy for Reducing Marine Plastics
Client: Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Global Environment Facility (GEF)

^{Marine plastic is a threat to marine environments, a root cause solution is to create circular economies.}

In 2021 I worked with a team to mainstream gender in two full proposals for the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to promote a circular economy to address plastics in our oceans. One plan was for a Southeast Asian regional project and one was Indonesia specific. My plans women, informal waste workers and other marginal groups at the heart of project activities.

Waste Management system upgrade – Jakarta
Client: BAPPENAS, Kemitraan Indonesia Australia untuk Infrastruktur (KIAT) and DFAT.

^{Sarah interviewing waste pickers so that she can incorporate their needs and aspirations in waste management system upgrades.}

In 2021 I integrated GEDSI in a feasibility study to support the Jakarta city government improve waste management, collection and transport arrangements

Post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction
Client: United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW)

^{Sarah listening to a teacher sharing what female students need for incorporation into architectural design plans.}

In 2019 I produced a GESI technical report with a checklist, specifications and recommendations for 42 critical public infrastructure projects. I traveled to the post-disaster regions of Lombok and Sulawesi and listened to over a hundred stakeholders share their wishes for the project designs as part of UNDP’s ‘Programme for Earthquake and Tsunami reconstruction Assistance’ (PETRA)

Ending Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
Client: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and DFAT

^{Policy advocacy work for a cultural-religious based gender violence involved many long meetings at a ministerial level.}

In 2017, I was involved in developing the evidence base for a politically sensitive and complex form of gender-based violence. I also worked on policy advocacy for this issue. I produced a consolidated research report from qualitative and qualitative data on female genital mutilation in ten Indonesian regions.