Jo-Ann Downs Email & Phone Number

South Africa

• Policy development and management, policy initiatives and manifesto drafting
• International liaison: DUP (Ireland), Conservative Party (UK) and CDU (Germany)
• Networked at three Conservative Party conferences (UK) as an invited observer
• Ran 3 major donor projects (Konrad Adenauer Siftung, Kristdemokraterna and Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy) that involved financial, monitoring/evaluation and key performance indicator reporting: setting.
• Worked with the Westminster Foundation, Konrad Adenaur Stiftung and sister parties in Africa such as Chadema in Tanzania. Here, I was the liaison with the International Democratic Union and participated in reviving the.
• Served as the chief negotiator and spokesperson (and assisted other diverse small parties) in successful coalition arrangements to govern three major cities in South Africa

KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

• Attended 3 Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conferences (Nigeria, Namibia and Malaysia).
• Constituency work including advocacy, facilitating the development of a child rights NGO, training on women’s empowerment, HIV/AIDS and economic empowerment.
• Negotiation with the governing party to further party objectives.
• Public Accounts Committee Chairperson (KZN), sat on the Association of Public Accounts Committee South Africa board, and assisted with the inauguration of the multi-national Southern African Development Community.
• Monitoring of related policy, legislation and regulation documents as a full member of the Health, Education, Finance and Safety/Security Committees.
• Specialised in legislation, lobbying and advocacy related to women and children’s rights and health, gender based violence, victim support protocols and issues affecting millennium development goals.

Master'S Degree, Public Policy And Management

Diploma, Economics

A Plus Levels