Since August of 2006, Sonjara has been asked to play the role of web presence strategist and web developer for the redesign of the public and intranet sites for the Office of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (formerly Women in Development or WID). Tasks included developing the overarching web presence strategy, develop the sites’ information architecture and navigation, working with the client to gather, develop, and/or identify new content, building the sites in HTML, transforming finalized Word documents into 508 compliant PDFs, ensuring compliance with USAID web standards, overseeing the review process for final approval, and maintaining the WID public and intranet sites. The project also includes development of a simple PHP/MYSQL based document manager to handle the over 200 PDFs housed on the public and intranet sites and to automatically generate HTML files for posting the documents to the WID websites. To this day, Sonjara continues to maintain the GENDEV office public and intranet sites as well as the document manager, which now holds almost 800 PDF reports. Most recently, Sonjara designed and developed an interactive Flash slideshow with stories and research-based quiz questions to commemorate the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. Sonjara will be working with the GENDEV office on the rebranding of the office as it officially changes its name and focus, as well as other communication requirements that occur during the year.
Web Strategy and Support for USAID GenDev Office
September 2011