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Ref: Introduction to Africa Community Development and Research Center (ACDRC)

This is to introduce you to the new world of innovative, decisive and progressive services of generating knowledge and building capacity that Africa Community Development and Research Center (ACDRC) delivers at the highest standards of quality and efficiency.

ACDRC operates in Zimbabwe, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda as a non–profit organization, specializing in technically supporting fellow development agents with its knowledge generation (research) and capacity building consultancy services. Proceeds of our consultancy services are then channeled towards charitable community development efforts centered on capacity building of budding women–led and youth empowerment associations. We further apply for grants from international funding partners for community development projects in the fields of public health, child protection and sustainable livelihoods, where our approaches are centered on capacity strengthening. Through our services we strive to raise organized community groups from being informal entities to being serious, authentic, consistent and sustainable people–led movements for meaningful community development.

We take delight in having received demand and taken our evaluative research and capacity building services profiled in this document as far afield as Afghanistan, Botswana, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Tunisia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. More information about our operations is accessible on www.acdrcenter.org

This document contains details about ACDRC’s operations, range of services, structure and a list of referees. In the hope that our profile will meet your favorable requirements we look forward to hearing from you soon and doing business with you of generating knowledge and building capacity.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Kudzai MakoniCountry Team LeaderZimbabwe

Africa Community Development& Research Center

CDRC tel: (+263) 773 256345 / 777 892677add: Agr icu l tu re House (Office G23B)

1 Adyl inn Rd, MalboroughHre, Zimemail: [email protected]

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2) Ref: Introduction to Africa Community Development and Research Center (ACDRC)

3) Table Of Contents

3) Chapter 1 : Get To Know Us

1.0. Know Our Vision

1.1. Know Our Mission Statement

1.2. Know Our Values, Principles And Approaches

3) Chapter 2 : Taste And Enjoy Our Services

2.1. Taste Our Consultancy Services – Generating Knowledge

2.2. Taste Our Community Development Programs – Building Capacities

2.2.1 Our Development Fields Of Our Interest

2.3. Listen To Instances Of The Excellence Of Our Work

2.4. Taste Our Expertise

7) Chapter 3 : Our Team Profile And Organizational Structure

3.1. Management Team

3.2. Country Team Leaders

3.3. Administration Team

3.4. Country Research Teams

3.5. Special Projects Teams

3.6. Technical Partners

3.7. Special Projects Teams

9) Chapter 4 : Know our trade references

Chapter 1Get to know usAfrica Community Development and Research Center (ACDRC) is a non–profit organisation oper-ating worldwide but primarily for Africa’s best interests, with offices in Zimbabwe, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda. It is on course to set up chap-ters in two additional East and Southern African countries and in the United Kingdom (UK) before 2020 while endeavoring to become a renowned international community development and research institution. The organization’s regional secretariat and headquarters are based in Zimbabwe, being responsible for coordinating and harmonizing. The setting up of the UK office will herald the maturation of ACDRC into an International Alliance for Community Development and Research (IACDR) that will spearhead resource mobilization. ACDRC represents a strategic shift of focus from fulltime consultancy work, which was done through Climber’s Song Consulting (Pvt) Ltd between 2000 and 2007, to a combination of consultancy services and charitable or funded community development work. ACDRC uses the income generated by its consultancy work and grants secured from funding partners to finance community development programs and projects that include, but not limited to:

〉Organizational development support through services that include:• Strategic plan development support and team building process facilitation• Fundraising and program management technical support• Staff training and mentoring in a range of skills including project planning and management, research and documentation skills, proposal writing, governance, applying participatory community engagement methods, etc.

〉Needs–based life skills training for organized groups of community members or citizen groups using the Training for Transformation (TfT) method-ology in partnership with the Grail Center in Cape Town, South Africa. Key TfT modules include Self–Discovery, Critical Consciousness, Social Mobilization, Ecology, Economic Literacy, Spirituality, organizational development and Gender.

〉Institutional capacity development support for community–based associations or organized groups of women or youth running small businesses or connected through a common cause (e.g., people living with HIV, child/youth–led lobby groups, conflict management associations, parents of children with disabilities, etc.).

1.0. Know our visionACDRC envisions: Centers of Excellence modeling, training and delivering cyclical community development service in which research and community development are symbiotic and as inseparable as two sides of the same coin

1.1. Know our mission statementOur mission is twofold: a. To build capacity for a vibrant civic society and informed communities through evidence–based technical support services;b. To generate new knowledge from research and community development experience for evidence–based, effective and sustainable programming.

In pursuit of this mission and the above vision, the following are the objectives of ACDRC:a. To deliver expert consultancy services in a range of community development fields, including but not limited to public health, child protection, environmental protection, education, sustainable livelihoods, human rights and related components of community development. b. To generate strategic information through action research for the improvement of ongoing and/or design of new community development initiativesc. To implement and widely share models of evidence–based and people–led community development programs and projects.d. To build research and community development technical capacity through high quality training programs delivered at Centers of Excellence in ACDRC countries.e. To collaborate with active country–based, regional and international organizations in areas of shared interest

1.2.Know Our Values, Principles And ApproachesACDRC is founded on Christian values, which stem from the biblical call for people to love one another, to serve others in humility and to spread the good news of God’s love in word and deed towards liberating people from their social, economic, political and psychosocial problems. To this end our work is geared at promoting social justice, peace and maximizing the realization of human dignity, especially through fighting poverty and vulnerability. Just as Jesus Christ organized His disciples into a powerful team that transformed the world during and beyond His time on earth, we rely on a leadership that practices social

justice, peace and love in and outside work in the interests of social transformation. However, our Christian beliefs only serve to guide our values of operating but we neither impose these on non–Christians with whom we interact and serve, nor do we confine our services to fellow Christians. We do not discriminate against fellow persons on any ground but embrace diversity in values and beliefs. Importantly, ACDRC is among the crop of change agents that values and promotes inclusiveness in development work, and mainstreams gender and disability in all its work.

Teamwork is a virtue at ACDRC, and our operating structures are organized into teams of experts reporting to Team Leaders. In the belief that we cannot achieve our goals single handedly we value partnership and collaborate with other organizations that see things our way and share our concerns for humankind.

We strongly value people–driven development at ACDRC in line with Jesus’ consistent practice of asking most people that He healed, including one blind man, the question “what do you want me to do for you?” Accordingly, participatory action research always precedes all our community development responses while our community development work experiences serve as a rolling operations research process and informs new research priorities and questions.

We strongly value people–driven development at ACDRC in line with Jesus’ consistent practice of asking most people that He healed, including one blind man, the question “what do you want me to do for you?” Accordingly, participatory action research always precedes all our community development responses while our community development work experiences serve as a rolling operations research process that informs new research priorities and questions.

Chapter 2Taste and enjoy our servicesWorking with ACDRC is always a special experience because of the rigor that we invest into planning our work, uniquely with the active involvement of our clients or partners, and our stringent quality standards that guide our quality assurance processes, choice of partners and the recruitment and selection of staff. Through our strong team of staff and expert partners we offer services that are classifiable as (a) consultancy services and (b) community development programs. These thrusts are two sides of the same coin because:

i. Priorities for community development are informed by, and emerge as, knowledge generated by our consultancy work, which predominantly involve participatory action research. Further, proceeds of consultancy work and grants from funding partners are used to sustain our community development.ii. Our community development work experiences determine themes for our further research.The diagram below illustrates our service delivery model

As illustrated above, we offer cyclical services whereby new knowledge generated through our research consultancies informs, and income mobilized thereby, augments grants to support our community development efforts, while experience gained through implementing programs generate themes for our further research. We go a step further, and make our very program implementation processes a rolling operations research venture for which we produce scientific research papers and publications. We have successfully piloted this model with two of our partners in Zimbabwe with whom we have worked consistently and cordially enough to sign memoranda of understanding.

2.1.Taste Our Consultancy Services – Generating knowledgeACDRC offers a wide range of expert consultancy services to build an income base for onward charitable community development work. This is the very reason why it is registered as a non–profit organisation and why it replaced

Climber’s Song – a profit–oriented firm. These services are operationally organized into three specialized fields of action or utilization–focused research, capacity–building training and development experience documentation as follows:

a. (Participatory) Action or utilization–focused researchUsing participatory methodologies we conduct the following researches that national, regional and international NGOs or private corporate clients require in order to make key decisions about the design of their community development work or business:

〉 Baseline surveys, training needs assessment and/or situational analysis surveys, public health–focused operational researches, etc〉 Program or project evaluations〉 Job evaluations〉 Market and feasibility studies〉 Other social and operations researches as commissioned

b. Capacity–building trainingWe offer all our capacity–building training within the Training for Transformation framework, which works wonders whenever the goal is to change mindsets so as to foster program sustainability, strengthen institutional structures, eliminate dependency or promote self–reliance, build effective movements, and undo entrenched stereotypes reminiscent of intolerance. The specific subjects of our training are listless, but the following are the broad themes that we are most commonly called upon to train on:

〉 Participatory project or program planning and management 〉 Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation and M&E frameworks development〉 Technical (action) research skills (research design, data analysis, report writing)〉 Training of trainers in the Training for Transformation methodology〉 Leadership skills〉 Team building skills and team formation support〉 Sound governance practices〉 Resource mobilisation/fundraising and funds management for sustainability〉 Advocacy skills〉 Communication skills〉 Report writing and development experience documentation skills〉 Others as informed by prior needs assessments

c. Development process facilitation and documentationACDRC expertly leads or facilitates and documents processes for organizational development including but not limited to the following:

〉 Strategic planning workshops 〉 Quarterly of annual program reviews, including processes leading to the writing of annual reports, newsletters, brochures, training manuals, etc 〉 Program formative (e.g., mid-term) and summative evaluations〉 Best practices or case studies of interesting community development models〉 Exchange learning sessions between organizations or community groups〉 Audio–visual documentary production and dissemination.

2.2.Taste Our Community Development Programs –Building capacitiesACDRC’s community development responses consist of mainly charitable and/or funded capacity building initiatives involving the following:

〉 Institutional capacity building of budding associations or organized community groups with low financial capacity to help them transform their operations from informal and subsistence levels to professionalism for increased viability. 〉 Creation and mentoring of strategic institutions and networks of community members with innovative ideas or common interests (e.g., married couples wishing to exchange psychosocial support, entrepreneurs struggling with mobilizing resources individually, people living with HIV, parents of children with disabilities, etc.)〉 Implementation of fully–fledged projects and programs that respond to findings of our operations or baseline study findings and rely on grants from international funding partners.

2.2.1.Our development fields of our interestThe fields of development in which we have applied our research, capacity building and/or program design exper-tise the most are:〉 Public Health: . HIV and AIDS management (we are excellent in involving people living with HIV in this work) . Sexual and reproductive health (focusing on adults and adolescents) . Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH)〉 Child protection〉 Poverty alleviation/ economic empowerment

〉 Emergency preparedness and disaster risk reduction〉 Human migration management〉 Human rights and sound governance〉 Water sanitation and hygiene (WASH)〉 Cross–cutting themes – gender, environmental management, rights–based approaches, HIV and AIDS, etc.

2.3. Instances Of The Excellence Of Our Work

2.3.1.We believe in evidence – based programming and walk the talkUsing a grant from the Organization for Social Science Research in East (and Southern) Africa (OSSREA), ACDRC conducted a study in Mutasa North rural District of Zimbabwe entitled “poverty–induced cross–border movements and children’s vulnerability to sexual exploita-tion and HIV infection”. The study serves as a baseline and situational assessment to inform programs for fami-ly–centered child protection and HIV prevention programs for which resources are currently being mobilized. After a two–phase peer review and mentorship process, the research was published in 2012 as a paper in the OSSREA Research Report Series #36. It is accessible on: http://publications.ossrea.net/index.php?option=com_sobi2&so2-Task=sobi2Details&catid=11&sobi2Id=2786&Itemid=0.

In 2015 a leading ACDRC staff member’s Master’s degree thesis attracted the attention of Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP) who offered to publish it. After a review of the report, LAP published the report, which now is accessible for sale on https://www.lap-publishing.com/catalog/details/store/pt/-book/978-3-659-77475-1/the-family-or-families?search=the%20f

amily%20or%20families. Entitled “The Family or Families”, the study explores various family formations arising from people’s survival activities thereby questioning western family definitions that are skewed towards the nuclear type. ACDRC has adopted this new knowledge to build cases for its community development agenda.

Currently ACDRC is putting finishing touches to its study entitled “Willingness to take an HIV test” in Zimbabwe, which is funded by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). The findings of the study are set to inform strategies of raising the uptake of voluntary counseling and HIV testing services towards more meaningful HIV prevention. In Kenya another CODESRIA–funded study is exploring the contribution of social constructions of street children on the educational policies of Kenya.

ACDRC continues to progressively build a name in technically supporting fellow civil society organizations, being in technical partnerships with the following organizations: 〉 Leonard Cheshire Disability Trust Zimbabwe (LCDTZ) – ACDRC has technically supported LCDZ’s program evaluations and strategic planning sessions consistently from 2012 to date. 〉 Young Africa Skills Center – ACDRC has technically supported LCDZ’s program evaluations and strategic planning sessions consistently from 2012 to date. 〉 Gender and Media Connect, formerly the Federation of African Media Women Zimbabwe (FAMWZ) – formerly the Federation of African Media Women Zimbabwe (FAMWZ) – a partner of ACDRC from 2013 to date, receiving resource mobiliza-tion, program design, implementation and M&E technical support. 〉 Female Students Network (FSN) – a recipient of ACDRC services of developing monitoring and evaluation systems for the measurement of its programs’ performance.〉Youth Empowerment and Transformation (YET) - contracts ACDRC regularly for the training of its grantees in various program management skills as well as for research techni-cal skills.

We share our development experiences through the platforms available within our collaborative partnerships with the HIV and AIDS Partnership Forum of the National AIDS Council (NAC) and the Poverty Reduction Forum of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). Our Country Team Leaders are members of the Council for Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) and Organization for Social Science Research in East and Southern Africa (OSSREA), which strategically places the organization to share its experiences widely in and beyond Africa. Through our ongoing efforts we may soon be a member of the American Psychological Foundation to reap additional networking benefits and privileges.

2.4.Taste Our ExpertiseACDRC is led by either PhD graduates or PhD students and has a pool of Master’s degree–level experts with extensive experience of: 〉 research projects execution and management, specializing in project evaluations, baseline surveys/assessments, situational analysis surveys, operations research and commissioned social or academic research〉 organizational monitoring and evaluation systems development support for organizations〉 organizational monitoring and evaluation M&E systems development support for organizations〉 facilitating organizational development processes such as strategic planning workshops, scenario analyses,

program (mid–term) review and planning, job evaluations, team building workshops, exchange learning sessions and so forth〉 building capacities of partners’ staff in a range of community development skills that principally include monitoring and evaluation, resource mobilization, project cycle management, participatory approaches to development, gender and results–based management, qualitative and/or quantitative data analysis using N–Vivo, SPSS, MS Excel, data quality management.〉 Documentation of community and organizational development processes through rapporteuring at high profile workshops or meetings, shooting video and static photo documentaries, writing annual reports, training materials (e.g., modules, handbooks, manuals, etc.)

Chapter 3Our team profile and organizational structureACDRC is organized into Management, Administration, Programs and Research Teams in line with the thrust of its work.

3.1. Management TeamThe highest management authority of an ACDRC country office is a five–member Board of Trustees that meets twice yearly to direct the organization’s strategic focus, which the office transforms into programs and day to day activities. For each project or program that the organization secures, the Board of Trustees is broadened in scope and membership to become an Advisory Board of technically competent individuals to advise the project through quarterly meetings. The Country Team Leaders of Zimbabwe, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda serve as the Board of Trustees Secretaries while senior staff members of specific programs or projects become secretaries of their line committees within the Advisory Board. ACDRC’s Regional Secretariat in Zimbabwe coordinates and harmonizes different country projects according to its regional vision. This vision is driven by a Region Advisory Group comprising Country Team Leaders and chairpersons of country boards of trustees or advisors. This structure is illustrated on the next page (Fig 3.1).

3.2.Country Team LeadersACDRC has three Country Team Leaders so far, in Zimbabwe, Kenya and Uganda. Mr. Kudzai Makoni leads Zimbabwe’s country office, Ms. Olivia Achieng–Opere the Kenya office and Dr. Edith Okiria the Uganda office. These offices are based in Harare, Nairobi and Kampala respectively. While Mr. Makoni is a Child, Family and Research Psychologist, Ms. Achieng–Opere is an Educational Sociologist and Dr. Edith Okiria is a Reproductive Health and Gender Expert. All country team leaders studied up to at least Masters degree level, with one of them a PhD holder (Edith Okiria) and two pursuing PhDs in Educational Sociology (Olivia Achieng–Opere) and Social Science Methods (Kudzai Makoni). Their roles are to

lead the country teams, set up country offices, oversee the pursuance of the country and regional visions and mobilize resources. The Zimbabwe office currently serves as the region-al headquarters where all regional projects are coordinated pend-ing the completion of the ongoing process of setting up offices in three additional Southern and Eastern African countries.

3.3.Administration TeamAdministration Team Leaders coordinate the Administration functions of ACDRC country offices to ensure efficient backstopping of all programs and projects. This team handles the financial management, secretarial, logistical and general functions of the organization.

3.4.Country Projects TeamsThe Projects Team Leaders’ key role is to mobilize resources for ACDRC programs and projects and to build teams for programs that the organization finds support for, notably in the area of capacity building for community development. They liaise with the Administration and Country Team Leaders, to smoothly lead their teams’ work.

3.5.Country Research TeamsResearch Team Leaders liaise with Country and Programs Team Leaders in planning logistics and technical designs of the organization’s research projects. They lead research teams and oversee data quality management. The ACDRC Regional Research Team is the organisation’s busiest, and its composition is highly fluctuant given the short–term and ad hoc nature of research projects. Therefore, the Research Team Leader, who works fulltime, maintains the ACDRC culture across teams of research experts that the organization outsources and contracts from time to time, and updates the database thereof.

3.6.Technical PartnersTechnical partners are subject experts who have a long term working relationship with ACDRC and are responsible for handling highly technical aspects of ACDRC’s research or community development projects including but not limited to Statistical analysis, field team leadership, report writing, proposal development, policy document production and related engagements. So far there are eight Technical Partners on whom ACDRC shares a long term relationship, and they all hold Master’s degrees as a minimum. These reservedly assume Team Leadership of new consultancy projects that suit their expertise, having started by writing proposals thereof.

3.7.Special Projects TeamsACDRC relies on and maintains a database of experts in various fields of community development and research work to call upon when large scale consultancy projects requiring their expertise arise. The technical fields for which adequate expertise are available for urgent calls to duty are: 〉 Public health 〉 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)〉 Child protection and children’s rights 〉 Social protection or livelihoods〉 Governance and poverty alleviation〉 Disaster risk management, emergency preparedness and resilience–building

They are categorized in the database according to specialized skills that correspond to ACDRC’s services namely participatory action research, capacity building and development experience documentation. They report to Country Team Leaders.

Junior, middle-level and senior professionals are available for various responsibilities, which are attached to consul-tancy fee categorizations. Junior consultants include final year university students who have been trained in ACDRC philosophy and techniques or recently graduated and have served the organization as field research assistants or data capture clerks at least once. Their consultancy fees per day range between USD50 and USD150 depending on scales agreed with clients. The major responsibility of these is to serve as enumerators or data collectors on big surveys that ACDRC is assigned to carry out.

Middle–level consultants are those with three to five years experience in research, training and/or program manage-ment, having served ACDRC at least once or participated in its technical training. These hold at least a Bachelors degree and bear the responsibility of supervising field teams on big research projects assigned to the organisation. Sometimes they are required to submit process reports, progress reports and preliminary reports of qualitative findings of surveys in which they participate as part of their grooming for more senior responsibilities. Commensurate with experience, qualifications and track records, middle–level experts earn between USD100 and USD350 depending on agreed budgeting scales.

Senior experts are students or holders of Master’s degrees or PhDs with years of relevant experience that exceeds ten years. These can be assigned responsibili-ties of handling the technical work of entire projects on behalf of ACDRC from writing the proposal to submitting the contractual deliverables. They oversee the activities of all experts at the lower levels, liaising with the support staff in the office for administrative assistance, logistical and data management support. The consultancy fees for these range between USD375 and USD1,000 per day.

Chapter 4Know our trade references

i. Mandela Institute for Development Studies (MINDS): ACDRC conducted a baseline study for a MINDS project entitled “Youth Participation in Elections and Democratic Governance” on a sample of eight countries that include Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Nigeria, Sene-gal, Tunisia and Morocco.Reference: Rumbidzai Chisenga – [email protected], Skype: live:tphoshodi

ii. Salvation Army – Southern Territory: ACDRC conduct-ed a baseline study on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) for Salvation Army to inform its community WASH project in rural Zululand, South Africa. Satisfaction with the quality of work that the organization delivered attract-ed the Salvation Army to further request ACDRC to devel-op its proposal for the intended project, make a presenta-tion on best practices of evidence–based program during a regional capacity building workshop, and to evaluate a program in Swaziland.Reference: Stanford Muzavazi – [email protected], Skype: stanford50

iii. Leonard Cheshire Disability Zimbabwe Trust (LCDZT): ACDRC conducted the end–of–term evaluation of the Young Voices Project, implemented in Zimbabwe as part of a global advocacy and campaigns initiative to lobby for the ratification of the UNCRPD. For its good work, ACDRC was contracted to facilitate LCDZT’s five-year strategic planning process (August 2013). Reference: Mr. Claude Cheta – Learning Impact and Qual-ity Manager – LCD–UK, Tel:02032420301, Email: [email protected]

iv. The Grail Center, Cape Town – Africa Community Development and Research Center is completing the evaluation of the impact of the Training for Transformation certificate and diploma courses. Reference: Ntombi Nyathi, Director, Training for Transfor-mation Program, Tel: +27282715153, [email protected]

v. Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) – ACDRC evaluated the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Education Project that ADRA was running in Gokwe North District. Reference: Ryuta Maekawa ([email protected]), Farai Dzimiri ([email protected] or [email protected]) and Natsai Mhosva ([email protected])

vi. Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) – ACDRC evaluated the Early Childhood Development and Education (ECDE) Program of OSISA, which is implemented through various national NGOs in seven Southern African countries. Reference: Justine Kamuchocho Ngulube, Skype: just-one4

vii. International Development law Organization (IDLO) – ACDRC was represented by the Zimbabwe’s Country Team Leader to conduct the indicator baseline survey of the Justice Training and Transition Program (JTTP) of IDLO in Afghanistan. Collecting information from the countries seven provinces of Kabul, Badakshan, Bamyan, Balkh, Kunduz, Herat and Nangarhar, he also reviewed the performance of the Advanced Continuing Legal Education for Afghanistan (ACLEA) and updated the JTTP monitoring and evaluation framework accordingly. Reference: Mustapha Yahiaoui, Curriculum Development Specialist, [email protected]

viii. World Bank – Zimbabwe: ACDRC team carried out the qualitative baseline assessment of the quality of maternal and child healthcare (MCH) in rural health facilities of Zimbabwe’s Matobo, Mangwe, Nyaminyami and Hurungwe Districts (April to September 2012). I later evaluated the Results–Based Financing Program that World Bank supports as a response to the findings of the above study. Reference: Bernadette Sobuthana Ndlovu, World Bank Health Specialist, email: [email protected]

ix. Management Sciences for Health (MSH): Africa Community Development and Research Center was represented by Mr. Kudzai Makoni to conduct the situational analysis on Voluntary Medical Male Circumci-sion (VMMC) in Swaziland, which informed the country’s National Strategic and Operational Plan 2014–2018. Reference: Dr. Paul Waibale, Deputy Director, [email protected] x. World Vision Zimbabwe: ACDRC Team Leader (Zimba-bwe) has evaluated seven Area Development programs of World Vision, four in Zimbabwe and three in Mozam-bique: Reference: Justin Mutaurwa, World Vision Zimbabwe Research and Evaluation Manager, Mobile: +263772237462, email: [email protected]

xi. Zimbabwe National Network for People Living with HIV (ZNNP+): ACDRC evaluated it capacity building programmes funded by Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM), which targeted support groups and networks of people living with HIV. Reference: Tendai Mhaka, Programme Manager, Tel: +263-772344982; [email protected]

xii. Organisation for Social Science Research in East (and Southern) Africa (OSSREA): ACDRC secured from OSSREA funds for a research on gender in Kenya and children’s vulnerability to sexual exploitation and HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe. Reference: Abraraw, Program Officer, [email protected]





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