universit y of kw azulu-na tal research repor t 2008/2009 - UKZN ...

Strategic initiativeSouth african reSearch chairS initiative (Sarchi)Chair in Applied PovertyReduction AssessmentProfessor Julian D Maymayj@ukzn.ac.zaSouth African ResearchChairs Initiative (SARChI)PProfessor Julian May is the NRF-funded South African Research ChairPin Applied Poverty Assessment to which he was appointed in 2009.PBetween 1994 and 1998, Professor May led the Poverty andPInequality P, Report, the first review of South Africa’s poverty reductionPpolicies in the post-apartheid era. PHe has worked with South African Government departments in thedevelopment of policy and monitoring systems, including social securityand land reform. Internationally, he has worked on an evaluation ofthe World Bank’s social fund programme in Jamaica, Nicaragua,Zambia and Malawi; biodiversity studies in Mozambique and Namibia;poverty reduction strategies in Lesotho, Zambia and Uganda; and onmonitoring and evaluation in Mauritius, Maldives, Namibia, Swazilandand Zimbabwe.Professor May was the principal researcher for the KwaZulu-NatalIncome Dynamics Survey (KIDS), a ten-year panel study of povertydynamics. With the support of funding received from the Economic andSocial Research Council (ESRC) and the European Union, this data isbeing further analysed in a project being conducted with the LondonSchool of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the Universityof Cape Town.Professor May is currently working with researchers in Senegal,Benin and Tanzania on a project exploring the implications of thehuman rights approach for PRSP budgeting as well as with researchersin Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Kenya investigating the impact ofinformation and communication technologies on poverty.He was a member of the South African Statistics Council between1994 and 2008 and is presently the lead consultant for Statistics SouthAfrica working on a new Living Conditions Survey.He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the South AfricanNational Income Dynamics Study; a Research Associate at the BrooksWorld Poverty Institute, University of Manchester; the InternationalFood Policy Research Institute, Washington; the Department ofSocial Policy, Oxford University; the South African Labour andDevelopment Research Unit, University of Cape Town; and a Fellowof the Comparative Research Program on Poverty at the University ofBergen. During 2002, he was a Visiting Professor at the Centre forInternational Poverty Studies, University of Bergen, and in 2008/9, avisiting researcher at LSHTM.He has edited three books, published more than 55 papers inbooks and academic journals, and produced more than 120 workingpapers, research reports and other publications. His research interestsare poverty and inequality, agrarian reform, and impact assessmentmethodologies.34 UKZN Research Report // 2008/2009UKZN Research Report // 2008/2009 35