David Bonbright - Chief Executive

David is founder and Chief Executive of Keystone. Most recently, David directed the Aga Khan Development Network’s Civil Society Programme. As a grantmaker and manager with Aga Khan Foundation, Ford Foundation, Oak Foundation, and Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, David has sought to evolve and test innovative approaches to strengthening citizen self-organization for sustainable development as an alternative to prevailing bureaucratic, top-down models of social service delivery and social value creation.

While with the Ford Foundation, he was declared persona non grata by the apartheid government in South Africa. In 1990 he returned to South Africa and entrepreneured the development of key building blocks for civil society, including the first nonprofit internet service provider, the national association of NGOs, the national association of grantmakers, and enabling reforms to the regulatory and tax framework for not-for-profit organisations.

Andre Proctor - Programme Services Director

An African historian by training, Andre has worked for the last thirty years in education and development practice. His work has included research, curriculum development, writing children’s books, and a wide range of educational materials (including textbooks in African History and web-based training courses for CSOs and small enterprises in southern Africa).

For the last twelve years he has specialized as facilitator of organization development processes for CSOs in Africa, including program evaluations where he has pioneered new approaches to developmental impact evaluation. He initiated and leads a project to develop a competency-based qualification framework in the field of Development Management and Practice in association with the Sustainability Institute at the University of Stellenbosch.

A founding partner of Keystone in 2004, Andre now serves as its Programme Director and manages the Cape Town office. He leads on the development of Keystone’s ground-breaking Developmental Impact Planning and Learning (DIPAL) methodology, and accompanying tool suite. This methodology enables organisations, their funders and primary constituents to plan, reflect and learn collaboratively in order to improve their respective contributions to complex change processes.

Andre also co-leads in the development of Keystone’s Comparative Constituency Feedback Survey methodology. This is a practical and powerful way of bringing the voices of those affected by development interventions into learning and decision-making.

Alex Jacobs - Director of Research

From 1999 – 2008, Alex was the founding Director of Mango, an award winning UK-based charity that helps NGOs strengthen their financial management and accountability. Alex worked with many different NGOs, conducting cutting edge research with Concern and carrying out major evaluations for ActionAid and DEC. He previously worked in sub Saharan Africa with Oxfam GB and other NGOs, having started his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Alex has a degree in Social Anthropology and is a qualified Chartered Management Accountant.

Alex sits on BOND’s board of trustees and is a member of Oxfam GB’s Association. He holds a visiting fellowship at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University, and has taught a Masters module on NGO accountability at Liverpool University. He is also chair of BOND's Quality Group, which focuses on new ways of managing accountability and quality in NGOs.

Alex was a member of the Editorial Steering Committee that drafted the 2007 HAP Standard. He previously served for six years on Oxfam GB's audit committee and as a trustee of Link Community Development. In 2007, Alex was shortlisted for a Beacon Fellowship for his contribution to charitable and social causes.

Alex joined Keystone at the start of 2009 and takes the lead responsibility for Keystone program development and the delivery of the ALINe project. Additional roles involve methodology and services development, including constituency voice, and the development of Keystone as a leader in its field. 

Munyarazi Saruchera - Advisor and Research Associate

Munya Saruchera has been working with Keystone in South Africa since November 2008. He has more than 10 years’ research working experience in the community-based natural resource management and smallholder farmer support sectors. He has worked for a range of national, regional and international organisations in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe. These include IUCN –the World Conservation Union’s Regional Office for Southern Africa, the Southern Africa Research and Documentation Centre’s Environment Unit, IUCN’s Ecosystems’ Commission, the University of the Western Cape, Biowatch South Africa and the Sustainability Institute.

Munya’s work interest is in the quality of relationships and the learning systems between development agents and beneficiaries in social change and sustainable community development processes. He is passionate about social capital and farmer-to-farmer seed systems as well as men’s work in healing and emotional literacy.

He has studied political science and regional and policy studies for his honours and masters degrees.      

Natalia Kiryttopoulou - Advisor and Research Associate 

Originally from Greece, Natalia studied Law in the French Universities of Caen and Toulouse where she specialised in International and European Law. Further on she moved to Spain where she completed postgraduate studies in International Commerce and a Master’s degree in International Law and Relations at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. She has collaborated voluntarily as a researcher with the international cooperation department of Intermon Oxfam (Spain). Natalia joined the Keystone team in November 2006 as an Advisor and Research Associate.
 
Natalia's current work involves strategic research on performance measurement and reporting of developmental processes and the use of participatory methods for enhancing the accountability of citizen organizations to their constituents. As a Keystone advisor, she provides services to citizen organizations and philanthropic institutions for designing impact planning and learning systems as well as comparative constituency feedback surveys. She also carries out the main project management tasks for Keystone’s engagements. She speaks and writes fluently in Greek, English, French and Spanish.

Louise Clark - Project Manager

Louise joined Keystone in early 2009 as Project Manager of ALINe.  She has considerable experience working on issues related to communication and knowledge management in the agricultural innovation sector.  Louise has a PhD from the University of London (Imperial College) which explores the complex network of actors in the rural development sector in Bolivia to examine how increasing visibility of the social structures created by information flows can help rural groups to develop their own strategies to use ICTs for local development.  This research developed an innovative approach and practical guide to social network analysis that uses visual presentations of network maps to promote dialogue between diverse stakeholders. Louise also worked as National Coordinator of the Bolivian Natural Resources Information and Knowledge System to pilot a national information system for the agricultural and forestry sectors in Bolivia as part of the DFID funded Facilitating Innovative Technologies (FIT) programme.  This work involved working closely with central and state governments, universities, NGO’s and farmers associations and their national representative bodies to develop local capacity to create online content for a decentralised and socially inclusive knowledge network.  Louise has also worked on matters related to organic and fair trade certification and microfinance.

Roger Granada - Office Manager

Roger joined Keystone in March 2009 after working and volunteering in the social change organisation We Are What We Do. He holds a BA in Economics from both Nottingham Trent University and University of Barcelona. Originally from Spain, he is involved in different sustainability networks.

Roger’s role at Keystone involves several levels of administrative and office management duties.  He assists the Chief Executive and the Director of Research and also contributes to finance, business development and communications projects.

Richard Ponsford - Project Administrator

Richard joined Keystone at the start of 2009 after a year working on organisational and project development in Bangladesh with local indigenous rights organisations as part of his VSO placement. Before that he worked as a project intern at the West African focused UK organisation Village AiD and had completed his MA in International Development: Development Management from the Institute of Development Policy (IDPM) and Management at the University of Manchester, UK.

Richard’s role at Keystone is to deal with the the organisation finances, the administrative issues of projects, principally the ALINe project, and to support communication and knowledge management at Keystone.

Vania Kaneva - Research intern

Vania joined Keystone as a research intern in July 2009. She has completed a BA in Economics and Politics at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK and is currently in the final stage of completing a Masters (MSc) degree in Middle East Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has previously worked as a Project Coordinator at the European Roma Rights Centre in Budapest, Hungary and has a long-term commitment as a volunteer in the London-based Equal Rights Trust. Her interests are in the areas of politics, human rights and development.

At Keystone, her main tasks are to provide research assistance and help develop a survey of Keystone’s constituents and its first public report, due in October 2009.