Brilliant Bhebe is a Consultant at Southern Hemisphere with 9 years of experience in the development sector. She specialises in monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), with particular strengths in participatory and qualitative approaches such as Outcome Harvesting, Contribution Analysis, Realist Evaluation, and Most Significant Change.
She has worked on a wide range of evaluations and learning processes across Africa and globally, with a focus on advocacy, policy influence, movement-building, gender equality, human rights, youth development, and SRHR and HIV programming. Before joining Southern Hemisphere, Brilliant worked in Zimbabwe’s social accountability and human rights advocacy sector, supporting community mobilisation and engagement between communities and duty bearers.
Brilliant holds an MPhil in Programme Evaluation from the University of Cape Town, where she has also lectured and currently supervises postgraduate students. She is passionate about evidence, learning, and supporting meaningful change through thoughtful and inclusive evaluation practice.
Below is a list of some of her work at Southern Hemisphere:
- Project Manager for Hybrid Formative–Summative Evaluation of the Ford Foundation Social Justice Bond Grant (2019–2025) – Current
- Project Manager for the Rapid Review of the Western Cape Provincial Youth Development Strategy (2025-Current)
- Consultant and Lead Project Coordinator for the End-term Evaluation of the Voices for Just Climate Action programme implemented in 7 countries across Africa, Latin America and Asia and funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Netherlands (2025-2026)
- Consultant and Project Coordinator for the End-Term Evaluation of the Love Alliance (2021–2025), a Dutch-funded global advocacy programme advancing SRHR and HIV responses for key populations (2025);
- Consultant and Lead Project Coordinator for the Mid-Term Review of the SADC Strategy and Framework of Action for Addressing Gender-Based Violence across all 16 SADC Member States;
- Project Manager for the 12-Year Review of the Youth@SAIIA Programme implemented by the South African Institute of International Affairs (2023); and
- Evaluator and Project Coordinator for the Evaluation of the Justice for All Global Campaign implemented by Namati and the Legal Empowerment Network (2021–2022)