Program Management Non-Profit

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October 15, 2025

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Ryan Chengedza Ndadzungira

Date of birth: **.**.1978, Nationality: Zimbabwean; Place of residence: Harare, Zimbabwe; Personal contact: mobile phone: +263-***-***-***, +263-***-***-***, +263-***-***-*** email: ***************@*****.***

skype: ryanchenge

Professional Profile

I have 17 years of working experience in the humanitarian sector on emergency, humanitarian, and resilience building projects for non-profit organizations in different capacities including program management. I am a self-starter who is motivated by achieving results. The drive to alleviate the suffering of vulnerable communities has pushed me to work for non-profit organizations were l feel l can make the greatest impact through designing and managing programs that increase their adaptive, absorptive, and transformative capacities given the wide range of risks and disasters that threaten their livelihoods. Projects that l have worked on previously cover the following thematic focus resilience building, livelihoods, water and sanitation, disaster risk reduction (emergency preparedness and response), community visioning, value chain development and participatory market systems development.

Qualifications

2017 Master of Science Degree in Post-Harvest Science and Technology, 2 years part time, Chinhoyi University of Technology, Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe.

2001: Bachelor of Science Honors Degree in Agriculture (Crop Science), 3 years full time, University of Zimbabwe, Harare Zimbabwe.

General program management experience

Developed proposal and managed programs from different donors in response to calls for proposals and some cases and extensions to existing programs. These covered humanitarian and development programs. I have worked with the following donor agencies UNICEF, FAO, EU, ECHO, USAid, CAFOD, Austrian Development Agency, Big Lottery Fund, UKAid and IOM.

Implemented projects that covered the following thematic areas resilience building, food security and livelihoods, disaster risk reduction (emergency preparedness and response), cash and voucher assistance, market systems development and WASH.

Managing partner relations during implementation of programs that contributed effective delivery of project in consortia arrangements. During implementation l was responsible for consortium coordination, providing oversight and technical assistance to ensure quality standardised implementation of programs across all partners. Consortium composition varied based on program and included INGOs, NGOs and private sector players.

financial management of the programs in line with the approved budget by the donor to ensure effective program delivery. This was done through financial forecasting, approval of requests for expenditure from the field offices, reviewing of project expenditure reports periodically and reallocation of funds across budget line with approval from the donor.

Responsible for managing, mentoring, and training staff after identifying areas that required development. This involved motivation of staff as well as performance appraisal for staff on a yearly basis. Team building retreats built close cooperation for project staff.

Review project reports from staff and consolidate into a donor report on a periodic basis based on the donor requirements. Periodic reports included monthly, quarterly, half year, annual and end of project reports. I have experience in reviewing reports from external consultants and monitoring their activities as they will be carrying out their duties.

Coordinate outsourcing of specific tasks that included baseline surveys, midterm project evaluation, end of project evaluation, contracts for rehabilitation of irrigation schemes and other activities that required the procurement of external contractors. This involved the development of terms of reference that clearly outlined the scope of work to be carried out.

experience with various interventions

Organized with the relevant stakeholders Disaster Risk Reduction through planning at village, ward and district level in some District in Zimbabwe. These fed into the provincial and national plan. Programs that l have managed used several early warning systems to creating awareness on impending disasters and how to get assistance from different stakeholders as mitigation measures.

Have designed livelihoods and food security projects implementing the following activities and interventions aimed at improving yields and incomes of farmers, climate smart agriculture, irrigation schemes rehabilitation, gardens construction, conservation farming, participatory market systems development, non-agricultural income generation activities, small livestock support (breed improvement) and agricultural input support.

I have facilitated trainings as well as offering extension and advice to farmers. My qualification as a post-harvest practitioner has increased my scope in offering extension and advice to farmers aimed at increasing incomes.

Assisted vulnerable and marginalized smallholder farmers in developing viable models around farmer to farmer extension. I understand and have been involved in the Zimbabwe farming sector for the past 15 years.

Marketing has been and is a key intervention area for programs that l have designed as farmer households are now engaging in market led production. A participatory approach to marketing, Participatory Market System Development, has been included in program design. This capacitates beneficiaries to identify bottle necks within a particular value chain and come up with actions to resolve the identified problems. After going through the process farmer households are better able to engage high value markets and have improved negotiating skills.

Value addition of both crop and livestock products has also been used as a way of improving incomes for these households after they produce surplus using improved technologies. This has been achieved through improved storage and post-harvest handling of produce which effectively reduces post-harvest losses.

Income generation has also been improved through households engaging in Voluntary Savings and Lending Schemes. The schemes have allowed for farmer households to engage in non-agricultural income generation activities for improved incomes and savings. There has been improved access to finance through this model with household using borrowed funds to start non-agricultural income generating activities. Diversifying income sources for project beneficiaries has increased their adaptive capacities to the changing climatic which in some seasons cannot support meaningful crop and livestock production.

Implemented the Community Led Total Sanitation concept in Zimbabwe’s rural communities.

Borehole drilling and rehabilitation for areas with poor supply of portable water. This included testing of the water sources to determine its safety for human consumption.

Piped water schemes for small urban centers aimed at improving availability of safe portable water and reduce walking distance for women and girls for fetching water by availing tapped water closer to their homes. Boreholes and other water sources were fitted with tanks and solar pumps for pumping water into the tanks.

Natural resource management through conservation works of agricultural land and reducing the indiscriminate cutting down of trees in tobacco producing areas.

Distribution of non-food items during outbreaks of cholera outbreaks in the country. These included buckets, water treatment tablets, soap. Training households on hygiene and proper disposal of waste and human fecal matter to reduce the spread of the disease.

Construction of UBVIPs, BVIP, and water and sanitation facilities.

Community driven sanitation approaches aimed at eliminating open defecation and increase awareness of hygiene and essential basic sanitation services for rural and urban communities.

Health interventions included promotion of community-based home-based care givers by equipping them with training and medical kits for assisting villagers in cases of home based patients. Training growth monitors that identify stunted kids and offer advice on how mothers can feed their kids and refer severe cases to clinics and hospitals. With collaboration from ministry of health through local clinics carry out primary health care outreach for areas that are not serviced by clinics and hospitals.

Child Protection Committees set up at local level to increase awareness on child protection issue in the community and reprimand perpetrators of child rights violators with assistance from police. The Child Protection Committees had impact on reducing violations of child rights especially through the reduction of child marriages. Some religious organizations which did not take children to hospitals have been encouraged to do so through the activities of these child protection committees.

Cash and voucher assistance experience

Experience in distribution of cash and voucher programing including paper vouchers, electronic vouchers, mobile money, cash in transit, use of money transfer service providers that include

These were based on different designs when it comes to conditionality. During Cyclone Idai cash in transit was used and beneficiaries had to perform certain hours of community asset rehabilitation work to be entitled for to receive the cash. Urban programming that l have managed in Harare and other parts of Zimbabwe have been unconditional cash transfers using money transfer agencies.

Market analysis for possibility of using cash to respond to a crisis or a disaster. This involved the analysis of whether local markets within a targeted area can respond to the cash or voucher injection.

Cash has been used to cover the different needs at household level with the widest range of needs was the multipurpose cash transfers. During response to Covid 19 and other disasters cash transfers were used to cover food and nutritional needs of beneficiary households with guidance coming from the Cash Transfer Working Group.

Monitoring of use of cash and access through periodic Post Distribution Monitoring surveys.

Projects that l implemented offered protection services for children, young people, women, and men to avoid cases of abuse as well as misuse of cash entitlements. This was through using referral pathways for victims and survivors of abuse and capacity building of local volunteers to identify and report any cases of abuse.

Set up feedback handling mechanisms at community level which beneficiaries have access to and are free to choose from toll free lines, help desk, suggestion box or office walk ins.

Experience in project design & implementation

In the past 5 years l have developed proposal that have received funding for humanitarian and development programs to the following donor agencies

Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund

Food and Agriculture organization of The United Nations

Big Lottery Fund managed by Practical Action

Multi Donor Funded Protracted Relief Program managed by GRM

Department for International Development and Catholic Agency for Overseas Development

Austrian development Agency

International Organization for Migration

These have varied in size; number of consortium members, geographical coverage, number of beneficiaries, budget and sectors (livelihoods and food security, WASH, nutrition, child protection). Program design has been informed by a number of tools which include market analysis, needs assessments, livelihoods option analysis.

Experience of running and managing training programmes

Programs that l have designed and implemented depended heavily on capacity building of field officers, public extension staff and project beneficiaries. I have been able to organize and run trainings for Training of Trainers and beneficiaries in my different capacities during my time in the development sector. These have been for the following topics

Participatory market systems development

Conservation Agriculture

Community based disaster risk reduction

Small livestock production

Transformation Leadership Training

Crop production for both dry land crops and irrigated crops

Post harvest management and storage of crop produce

Production of seed crops

Nutrition (Health harvest manual)

Employment History

2022 June – Current, Program Officer Resilience, CAFOD Zimbabwe, Harare

2021 May – 2022 June Current Project Manager, Emergency Social Cash Transfer, Goal Zimbabwe, Harare

2020 – 2021 Team Leader, Zimbabwe Disaster Rapid Response Mechanism, Care International, Masvingo Zimbabwe

2020 -2020 Project Manager, Cyclone Idai Response and Recovery Project, Care International, Chipinge Zimbabwe

2019 – 2020: Project Manager, Cash Distribution Project, Care International, Mwenezi, Zimbabwe

2008 - 2019: Program Manager Resilience Building and Food Security, Farm Community Trust of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe, Mozambique

2006-2008: Program Coordinator Sustainable Livelihoods and Food Security, Farm Community Trust of Zimbabwe, Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe

2004-2006: Program Manager Sustainable Livelihoods and Food Security, Mercy Corps, Chipinge Zimbabwe

2003-2004: Section Manager, Agricultural Rural Development Authority, Chisumbanje Estate, Chipinge, Zimbabwe

Relevant related training courses attended

2017: Disaster Risk Reduction training of trainers offered by Catholic Agency for Overseas Development.

2013: Training for Transformational Leadership training of trainers.

2013: Participatory Market Systems Development offered by Practical Action.

2006: Conservation Farming offered by and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

2006: Monitoring and Evaluation Principles offered by Mercy Corps.

2006: Health Harvest Training of Trainers offered by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (nutrition)

Languages

Speaking

Reading

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English

Excellent

Shona

Excellent

Referees

Mr. Isaac Chaipa, Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator, Goal Zimbabwe, mobile: +263-***-***-*** or +263-***-***-*** email: *******@**.****.**

Mr. Augustine Masomera, Resource Mobilization Advisor, CARE Zimbabwe, mobile +236-***-***-*** or +263-***-***-***, email: ********.*@*****.***

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