Patience Hwenha

Developed and Managed the peace building African programme focusing on Central Africa Republic (CAR), DRC, Lesotho and Zimbabwe.

• Developed a strong programme focus to the interventions in these countries ensuring a results based approach.
• Developed and implemented strategies to promote social cohesion and national cohesion in specific countries like the CAR.
• Strengthened local capacities to build and sustain peace in target countries.
• Mobilized financial, technical and political resources in support of peace building processes in target countries.
• Aligned budgets to programming , ensuring that all costs were accurately accounted for with results matched to the financial spend.
• Collaborated with other directors on operational and programmatic activities, including resource mobilization and management, and program conceptualization.
• Ensured compliance with funding partners through timely reporting and honouring contractual obligations.

• Conducted capacity building projects on democratic governance to support various stakeholders including civil society, political parties, political elites. Select projects are as follows:
• Developed 5 training manuals on Local Government for the Democracy Works Angola Programme, 2023.
• Conducted research on Women’s Political Participation in the SADC Region for the SADC Parliamentary Forum, 2023.
• - Developed 4 Manuals on Women’s Political Participation for the Democracy Works Foundation Botswana Programme, 2021.
• Developed 6 manuals to prepare Angola political parties for the 2023 Elections for Democracy Works Foundation.
• Conducted an assessment of Eswatini's 2018 elections with specific focus on the country’s electoral laws, the capacity of the electoral management body and participation of marginalized groups in the electoral process.
• Conducted an end of project Evaluation for Election Institute of South Africa (EISA) electoral assistance programme in Zimbabwe for the project period 2016-2019, in 2019.
• - Development of 12 Manuals on political party strengthening for the Southern Africa Political Party capacity development programme for Freedom House and Democracy Works Foundation in 2019.
• Carried out an end of project evaluation of the Zambia Electoral Information Centre, an OSISA funded project for the 2016 Zambian elections in 2018.
• Reviewed and enhanced of the NIMD& International IDEA Manual on Inter-Party Dialogue in 2018.
• Conducted an Impact Evaluation of the SADC Electoral Advisory Council (SEAC). The evaluation was carried out in a sample of 5 SADC countries, notably Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania and Seychelles.
• International Expert –Training and Material Development. designing and development of a Poll watching manual and training programme for the Zambia Centre for Inter-party Dialogue (ZCID) and NIMD British Council/DFID funded joint project in 2016. Project was aimed at developing capacity of political parties in poll watching in preparation for the Zambian 2016
• Senior Expert, for the capacity building programme of political parties in Tanzania in preparation for the 2015 October national elections. This was for the Netherlands Institute for Multi-party Democracy (NIMD) in a UNDP commissioned project (July-November 2015). In this role I was involved in programme design, gender mainstreaming, developing M&E framework and data collection tools, guiding and supervising the content development process, capacity building of local training experts, supervising roll out of trainings, supervising analysis of M&E data and final report writing.Elections.

• Developed and Managed the ILEDA political party capacity building project.
• Conceptualized project content and developed capacity building content.
• Collaborated closely with senior management on long-term strategic planning initiatives related to projects in development or execution stages.
• Relationship building and management with programme stakeholders in target countries.
• Drafted reports detailing progress made on projects for review by executive leadership team.

• Conceptualized and managed the Regional Leadership Network Initiative Zimbabwe Chapter.
• Developed programmes to inform the programme content.
• Ensured quality control in the implementation of projects
• Relationship building and stakeholder management with the variety of stakeholders aligned to the programme.
• Mobilized technical and financial resource to support the programme.
• Demonstrated leadership by making improvements to work processes and mentoring support staff.
• Reporting of project to funding partners, regional network and board members