Research Team
PI Team A:
Margaret Roper
Evaluation Expert and Principal Investigator
Khulisa Management Services
mroper@khulisa.com
Co-Pi Team A:
Ajwang Warria
Research Team Lead and Co-Principal Investigator
Department of Social Work at the University of the Witwatersrand
awarria@gmail.com
Dr. Marcel van der Watt
International Consultant & Research Fellow
Free State Centre for Human Rights, University of the Free State
mvanderwatt@ncose.com
Ms. Susan Marx
Legal/Policy Expert
Independent
marx.susan@gmail.com
PI-Team B:
Erica Koegler
Assistant Professor
University of Missouri-St. Louis
koeglere@umsl.edu
CO-PI-Team B:
Edna G. Rich
Institution University of the Western Cape
rich.edna2@gmail.com
Rumi Kato Price
Professor of Psychiatry
Washington University in St. Louis
pricerk@wustl.edu
Nicolette Roman
Institution University of the Western Cape
nroman@uwc.ac.za
Annah K. Bender
Assistant Professor
University of Missouri-St. Louis
bendera@umsl.edu
Leah F. Meyer
Consultant
Human Trafficking Intelligence Project
leah.meyer@htip.org
Project Information
Title of Project: Research on the Nature and Scope of Trafficking In Persons (TIP) in South Africa
Sector: Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance
Country: South Africa
Lead Institution: Khulisa Management Services and University of Missouri – St. Louis
Co-PI Institutions: University of Witwatersrand, University of Missouri, Colombia, Washington University, St. Louis, University of the Western Cape, Purdue University
Budget: $600,000 (per costed extension)
Project Length: 05/18/2020 – 03/18/2022
Research Objective:
This project will collect robust and empirically-based qualitative and quantitative data that will reveal the nature and magnitude of trafficking in persons in South Africa in order to support efforts to increase data’s role in public-policy debates, particularly given the hidden and subversive nature of human trafficking.
Project Description:
The proposed Buy-In activity will conduct research that provides evidence to the Government of South Africa and USAID on the nature and magnitude of trafficking in persons in order to support efforts to have the data play a larger role in public-policy debates on human trafficking. In doing so, it will amplify South African institutional capacity to participate in and lead this process through partnership with US institutions and engagement with the Government of South Africa.
