About me
Ms Molose started her career as a gender fieldworker in the land sector where she worked asa gender activist on programmes focusing on strengthening women’s capacities to understand the then new land reform policies and their rights and responsibilities in that regard. This also entailed support to women on farms to lodge their land claims, negotiatefor better living and working conditions and recognition as adults in law. Ms Molosecontinued to work in the civil society sector and broadened her experience and skills toinclude livelihoods and rights based approaches. She gained considerable amount of experience at training and facilitation in this work while travelling the breaths and depths ofthe country particularly in rural areas to support mainly civil society organisations, officials from rural municipalities and provincial and national departments in this work.
It was from the livelihoods work that Ms Molose developed interest in the water and sanitation sector and ultimately joining the sector in 2003 where she remains to date. Her contribution to this sector has been in training, skills development and capacity building in areas likehealth and hygiene promotion, user education and use of participatory methodologies. Ms Molose has in this sector deepened her policy research work which led her to managevarious policy research projects, serve in strategic sector committees and teams. In her current portfolio as a Research Manager Virginia is responsible for the multiple use wate rservices and empowerment of women entrepreneurs in the water and sanitation sector.
Ms Molose holds a B.A degree in Humanities and finalising research towards MPhil(IWRM). She has made contributions to key sector policy review processes, written and disseminated policy advocacy articles and presented research papers at various national and international workshops and conferences.