Charity Mahwire
Humanitarian Worker
Teaneck
Summary
A skilled Community Development professional with 10 years of experience in humanitarian interventions, I hold a Master of Science in Andragogy in Development from the University of Zimbabwe. My expertise span food aid, education, livelihoods programming, monitoring and evaluation, disaster management, research management, community systems strengthening, and HIV/AIDS programming. I have successfully led district-level teams, ensuring coordinated efforts across various components and collaborating with stakeholders to develop annual activity plans. My background includes significant experience with USAID/PEPFAR and UNAIDS projects, enhancing my ability to contribute effectively to humanitarian roles.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
2024
2024
years of post-secondary education
8
8
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
District Coordinator
Zimbabwe National Networking for people living with HIV
01.2021 - Current
- Company Overview: USAID-PEPFAR
- TASQC Program
- Ensuring all activities are conducted within set timelines, adhering to ZNNP+ and donor
- Collaborating with stakeholders, including the provincial coordinator and members, in developing advocacy issues, improving service access for PLHIV and key populations
- Successfully developed and executed monthly, quarterly, and annual district work plans for People Living with HIV (PLHIV) and consistently delivered timely and comprehensive reports to the Provincial Coordinator
- Provided supervision and support to over 40 community cadres, including Community HIV and AIDS Support (CHASA), mentor mothers, and Expert Clients, enhancing their effectiveness in service delivery
- Spearheaded the execution of the district Monitoring & Evaluation Plan including monitoring the Indicator Progress Tracking Table (IPTT) & Detailed Implementation Plan
- Developed and maintained a comprehensive district membership database, encompassing individuals, support groups, community-based organizations, and networks of PLHIV increasing membership and affiliation by more than 50%
- Actively engaged in mobilizing human, financial, and material resources to support district HIV activities and improve the welfare of PLHIV
- Successfully established and empowered PLHIV groups, ensuring their sustainability and operational effectiveness
- Fostered and maintained relationships with key stakeholders like Government departments, implementing partners, community and district meetings and workshops, fostering effective communication and collaboration
- Providing secretariat services to the District Executive Committee, ensuring effective meeting management and record-keeping
- USAID-PEPFAR
- TASQC Program
Community Link Officer
AFRICARE
01.2019 - 12.2020
- Company Overview: PLAN JAPAN National Office- ASRH Program
- Integrated effectively within a multidisciplinary team, employing collaborative and innovative strategies to optimize project delivery
- Conducted initial investigations into community issues and complaints, resolving them at first contact when possible, and escalating complex cases for collaborative resolution
- Assisted the Stronger, Safer Communities Manager in liaising with strategic partners to ensure community safety and wellbeing, adhering to relevant legislation, policies, and standards
- Resolved issues through advice, negotiation, mediation, or enforcement, maintaining compliance with legislative requirements and departmental practices
- Prepared reports and presentations, actively participating in community and public meetings to facilitate transparent communication
- Encouraged and supported community participation in the co-creation of strategies, plans, and projects, ensuring their effective implementation and review
- Proactively managed and responded to complaints about services at the local level, following established procedures
- Enhanced community capacity, leveraging Council and partner agency resources to meet local needs and ensure Africare's safety and vitality
- Uphold excellent data management principles, ensuring accurate data recording and compliance with legislative or best practice guidelines
- Analysed service data and prepared reports to support evidence-based decision-making
- Ensured the highest standards of case management in all handled cases
- Developed and monitored effective performance monitoring and governance arrangements, reporting on progress and performance indicators
- Consistently provided monitoring reports on progress and performance indicators to Officers, Members, and other stakeholders
- PLAN JAPAN National Office- ASRH Program
Project Officer
Mwenezi Development Training Centre
09.2018 - 04.2019
- Company Overview: USAID-WFP Lean Season Assistance Program
- Facilitated linkages with other projects and programs in the area to ensure complementarity
- Facilitated good working relationship with stakeholders as well
- Prepared and submitted weekly, monthly work plans describing schedule of activities and expected outputs
- Aligned with the project quarterly work plan and adhere to Mwenezi Development Training Centre (MDTC) programming principles and standards for quality assurance and performance monitoring
- Coordinated and support communities and stakeholders to implement project activities according to plan and within budget and in compliance with programmatic and financial standards and procedures
- Prepared and submit monthly activity reports describing accomplishments against approved work plans and targets, addressing any challenges and obstacles encountered during implementation
- Provided continuous support towards data collection, capturing into SCOPE and cleaning, consolidation, and reporting of project data in the stipulated areas according to established time frames
- Reviewed survey documents to ensure accuracy of data
- Carried out regular monitoring and support visits and review meetings with community structures and ward stakeholders
- USAID-WFP Lean Season Assistance Program
Village Savings & Landings Officer
CARE ZIMBABWE
06.2014 - 04.2015
- Company Overview: USAID
- Conducted community and stakeholders’ mobilization, sensitization, and orientation
- Trained World Vision staff on VS&L concept as well as identifying and strengthening their capacities
- Trained new VS&L groups, conducting community capacity building, training of communities, Cluster Facilitators, and individuals on identified relevant topics identified through needs assessments
- Responsible for training communities, farmers, and individuals on group savings, generating capital for small businesses and creating a safety net for participants, after maturing, groups receive training on developing small businesses, budgeting, and managing finances
- Created, developed, maintained, coordinated, and strengthened networks with various relevant Value Chain market players (producers, buyers, traders, market groups, input & supply companies, and banks
- Trained the community and farmers on Farming as a Business (FaaB), Customer Care and Post-Harvest Handling and other capacity building courses such as leadership, Business Management, finance, literacy, transparency, accounting, development of business plans, access to input and output markets, value chain and financing from commercial banks
- Linked producers, buyers, and suppliers to each other and strengthening of value chain development product – market systems
- Provided expertise in enterprise management and active meaningful economic engagement
- Trained Financial Literacy, savings, micro credit, enterprise management using curriculum that best fit players’ needs and expectations
- Developed and negotiated advance purchase contracts with buyers, sellers and suppliers specifying the prices, qualities, and quantities characteristics of products to be produced and supplied
- Assisted the communities, farmers, and sellers to open accounts in local institutions for sales proceeds and other payments
- Assisted participants in raising funds to pay for girls and boys school fees and other school related costs (uniforms, books, agriculture inputs, clothes etc.) as well as improve the household’s living standards including enough income to purchase food and other essential items
- Trained communities, Farmers and Village Landings and Loans entrepreneurs or clients to form strong and coercive groups, mobilize their own savings which will be used as capital for income generating activities, consumption and meeting other basic activities like education, food, shelter, clothing, seeds, and health
- Trained VS&L participants to manage their own resources and activities which enables them to understand why they should be their own savers, own bankers, and own lenders
- Trained participants, farmers, and individuals on how to maintain easy bookkeeping systems for transparency, increase and improvement of income generation and safety net mechanisms in times of economic and natural crisis
- Mobilized and trained participants, farmers and individuals on the VS&L methodology which covers 5 modules namely, Individual Self Screening & Membership Selection, Groups & Leadership, Constitution Development, Group Fund Development and Records Keeping
- Provided solution to most challenges being faced by Micro Entrepreneurs in Zimbabwe like limited access to own productive assets, Lack of Social services support ie education, heath, shelter, food, clothing, seeds and so on
- Through the VS &L methodology, enable the provision of individual opportunities of contributing towards women’s empowerment thorough dealing with key Genders issues like Agency (Strategic Gender Needs), Power Relations through which men and women engage each other on use of income, household decisions, GBV and the environment that surrounds women choices like practices, beliefs, attitudes about their potential
- Monitored and Evaluate Gender indicators in VS&L like change in attitudes towards Gender Equality looking at the roles, abilities and responsibilities of men and women in each society or context
- Monitored changes in status of women at household level where men and women report changes in Gender Relations and or amount of power and control those women have in relation to men at household level
- Also monitored reduction of women’s workload to allow them to effectively participate in VS&L activities
- USAID
Education
Master of Science - Andragogy in Development
University of Zimbabwe
Honors Degree - Adult Education
Great Zimbabwe University
Diploma - Adult Education
Great Zimbabwe University
Diploma - Public Relations
London Chamber of Commercial Industry
Skills
- Proficient in Excel
- Proficient in Word
- Proficient in PowerPoint
- Proficient in Outlook
- Knowledge of SPSS
- Knowledge of SCOPE
- Knowledge of ODK
- Knowledge of KOBO COLLECT
- Knowledge of COMMCARE
- Strong organizational skills
- Strong multi-tasking skills
- Excellent analytical abilities
- Excellent problem-solving abilities
- Team-management skills
- Leadership skills
Certification
HIV/AIDS Legal and Policy Requirements Course, USAID, 01/24
Accomplishments
- Supervised team of 45 staff members.
Timeline
District Coordinator
Zimbabwe National Networking for people living with HIV
01.2021 - Current
Community Link Officer
AFRICARE
01.2019 - 12.2020
Project Officer
Mwenezi Development Training Centre
09.2018 - 04.2019
Village Savings & Landings Officer
CARE ZIMBABWE
06.2014 - 04.2015
Honors Degree - Adult Education
Great Zimbabwe University
Diploma - Adult Education
Great Zimbabwe University
Diploma - Public Relations
London Chamber of Commercial Industry
Master of Science - Andragogy in Development
University of Zimbabwe
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