Political Settlements Lead - Harare

• Aug 2021 - Present

Country Director

• May 2020 - Present

Chief of Party

• May 2020 - Present

The Accountability Lab catalyzes a new generation of active citizens and responsible leaders. We train, mentor, and resource citizens to strengthen systems of accountability to unleash positive social and economic change. The Lab also strives to reinvent the way that development organizations operate through radical accountability, context-appropriate reporting, and creative awareness campaigns. Its project in Zimbabwe, New Narratives for Accountability in Zimbabwe (NNAZ) carries forward this work through modelling integrity and building positive narratives that showcase not just what is bad and corrupt, but also what accountable governance, responsible leadership and active citizenship should like. The work builds on the Accountability Lab's five core-operating principles of (1.) Building unlikely networks not the usual suspects, (2.) Crowding others in NOT out,(3.) Positivity NOT Negativity - including positive deviance, (4.) Working with Individuals THEN Organisations (understanding that individuals can change institutions and other individuals), and (5.) Them NOT Us-putting communities and new voices front and centre of the work instead of overshadowing their agency.

Guest Teacher - International Development

• Feb 2020 - May 2020

One of the longest-running debates within the feminist literature, and one that has been replayed in the field of gender and international development, relates to the relationship between women’s access to labour market opportunities and their position within the family and community: the exploitation versus emancipation argument. These debates have been given a fresh lease of life in the development literature as a result of the growing feminisation of labour markets in recent years in most regions of the Global South. They have been further complicated by additional claims that have had a great deal of traction in policy circles that greater gender equality in the labour market has enormous growth as well as emancipatory potential: ‘the smart thing to do as well as the right thing to do’. At the same time, a great deal of feminist literature as well as international campaigns, like the anti-sweatshop movement, highlight the extremely exploitative terms on which most women take up paid work and contest the view that increased access to paid work has been empowering for women. At the heart of these conflicting positions are conflicting views about how power, privilege, choice and agency play out in the market place.

Class Teacher: IR210

• Jun 2017 - May 2020

This is a Level 200 full-unit course offered by the LSE Summer School International Relations, Government and Society programme. It focuses on the problems and solutions to post-conflict (political violence and ethnic conflict) democracy-building using cases that include: Iraq, Kenya, Tunisia and Egypt, Northern Ireland, East Timor, South Africa, Sudan and South Sudan. Through these cases, the course diagnoses central problems and examines political responses most appropriate for the different cases.

PHD Student

• Sep 2016 - Feb 2020

Political Science

Class Teacher: GV245 Democracy & Democratisation

• Sep 2018 - Jul 2019

GV245 is a Level 200 full-unit course offered by the Department of Government on theories and case studies of democratic transformations. It focuses on several parts of the world including Southern and Eastern Europe, Latin America, South East Asia, India, the Middle East and North Africa, and Russia. The course analyses processes of transition to democracy in these jurisdictions in their proper historical, socio-economic, and political contexts, as well as relations between democracy, democratisation and economic development in a global capitalist economy.

Principal Consultant & Researcher

• Sep 2017 - May 2020

Freelance (consulting) technical support, evaluation, strategy development, technical coaching, campaign and program design services to non-profits.Producing commissioned and noncommissioned research papers, policy briefs, and other types of writeups on politics and development, especially on democratisation, elections, human rights, governance, civic space, civil society, political parties, election campaigns and integrity. Freelance (consulting) technical support, evaluation, strategy development, technical coaching, campaign and program design services to non-profits.Producing commissioned and noncommissioned research papers, policy briefs, and other types of writeups on politics and development, especially on democratisation, elections, human rights, governance, civic space, civil society, political parties, election campaigns and integrity.

DIRECTOR

• Mar 2009 - Sep 2015

Providing strategic and political leadership to the Coalition's membership and Staff teams,facilitating the development of innovative, creative, and cutting age advocacy initiatives and mission attaining programming.Leading and facilitating thought leadership processes on Politics, Governance and Democratisation in Zimbabwe. Providing strategic and political leadership to the Coalition's membership and Staff teams,facilitating the development of innovative, creative, and cutting age advocacy initiatives and mission attaining programming.Leading and facilitating thought leadership processes on Politics, Governance and Democratisation in Zimbabwe.

Founding Coordinator

• Jun 2002 - Feb 2009

Leading the process of providing demand driven solidarity initiatives to politically engaged student leaders and the students union, including creating and managing a students social safety net system that provided scholarships to student activists who would have either been expelled or suspended from Zimbabwean Universities because of their involvement in students or political activism. Leading the process of providing demand driven solidarity initiatives to politically engaged student leaders and the students union, including creating and managing a students social safety net system that provided scholarships to student activists who would have either been expelled or suspended from Zimbabwean Universities because of their involvement in students or political activism.

Spokesperson

• Aug 2007 - Oct 2008

Being the Face and Voice of the Coalition during the crucial election period of 2008 Being the Face and Voice of the Coalition during the crucial election period of 2008

Co-Chair

• 2006 - 2007

Co-Chaired the plenary meetings of the Zimbabwe Social Forum, which was the local space created to funnel participation of social and economic justice activists in Zimbabwe to the Southern Africa, Africa and World Social Forum processes. I participated in Social forum processes from 2004 including the Porto Alegre, Mumbai, Bamako and Nairobi World Social Forums, as well as Southern Africa and Africa Social Forums in Harare, Lusaka, and Lilongwe. Co-Chaired the plenary meetings of the Zimbabwe Social Forum, which was the local space created to funnel participation of social and economic justice activists in Zimbabwe to the Southern Africa, Africa and World Social Forum processes. I participated in Social forum processes from 2004 including the Porto Alegre, Mumbai, Bamako and Nairobi World Social Forums, as well as Southern Africa and Africa Social Forums in Harare, Lusaka, and Lilongwe.