Editing
Skills
Copy editing: Ensure accuracy in grammar, spelling, syntax and punctuation. Cut wordiness and jargon. Simplify convoluted text. Fact-check information. Flag factually incorrect and gender-insensitive text. Adapt the style to the target audience.
Editing & line editing: Read for flow, clarity and sense. Flag inconsistencies and unclear terms. Check table of contents, acronyms, infographics and tables for consistency and clarity. Write foreword and photo captions.
Proofreading: Check for typographical, text and formatting errors. Ensure clarity and readability. Check acronyms, links and references.
Uganda
No wealth without health
Guidance
for Youth Participation
Toolkit SADC Model Law
Eliminating child marriage
Assignments
Since 2016 I have edited, copy-edited and proofread more than 30 studies, training manuals and technical briefs for UNFPA and UNAIDS.
Editing and Copyediting
- Ethiopia Strategic Plan for HIV Prevention 2023-2027. Ethiopia National Roadmap for HIV Prevention 2023-2027
- SADC HIV Prevention 2020 Scorecard: Tracking progress towards the 2020
prevention targets in the SADC region.
- SADC HIV Prevention 2020 Scorecard: Tracking progress towards the 2020
- Scorecard for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the SADC Region.
- SADC Guide to HIV prevention programme for adolescent girls and young women and their sexual partners. For 2gether 4 SRHR, 2019.
- Framework for Target Setting for HIV Prevention in the SADC Region.
- Ethiopia National Roadmap for HIV Prevention 2018-2021 • Ethiopia National Condom Strategy.
- Copyedited studies for Safeguard Young People Programme (SYP/UNFPA): Youth Status Report • Initiation Rites Literature Review and Guidance Note • SYP Best Practices • TuneMe Evaluation Report • Laws and Policy Review Report • Laws and Policy Regional Framework.
- Copyedited Regional Framework for the Harmonization of the Legal Environment on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in East and Southern Africa (UNFPA), 2019.
- Regional Guidance on Youth Participation and on Adolescent Health (UNFPA).
- Produced 23 country fact sheets for UNFPA. Wrote three op-eds on SRHR.
- Copyedited Laws and Policy Review Report and Regional Legal Framework, 2017.
- Copyedited Training Manual on Comprehensive Sexuality Education for Out-of-School Youth.
- Summarized 3 briefs on the demographic dividend and fertility, education, and employment, and turned them into fact sheets.
SELECTED FACT SHEETS
- Disability Fact Sheet. The Right to Access: healthier lives for young persons with disabilities.
- Total Market Approach for Family Planning: 9 country fact sheets and a general fact sheet.
- Copyedited and summarized a policy brief to assess the feasibility of condom manufacturing in Africa. Wrote an op-ed.
- Edited a policy brief on task shifting for improved family planning.