https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/21 2026-04-05T17:39:48Z 2026-04-05T17:39:48Z Sisimayi, Tapiwa Patson Muperi, James Tauya https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6717 2025-09-02T08:35:59Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Adaptive management in a dynamic monitoring and evaluation environment: A case of Zimbabwe COVID-19 pandemic (2019–2023) Authors: Sisimayi, Tapiwa Patson; Muperi, James Tauya Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic critically disrupted monitoring and evaluation systems in humanitarian contexts, necessitating innovative adaptations to ensure program continuity. This study adopts the adaptive management theoretical framework to assess how remote monitoring and evaluation practices were adjusted during the Zimbabwe COVID-19 crisis. The study examined remote monitoring and evaluation practices implemented during the pandemic in Zimbabwe through key informant interviews with program implementers and development professionals, online surveys of 120 practitioners, and a content analysis of 45 project reports. Remote monitoring emerged as a primary alternative to physical inspections, enabling real-time data collection via mobile platforms (76 % adoption rate). However, challenges such as data privacy risks (reported by 68 % of respondents) and reliability gaps in self-reported beneficiary data (52 % inconsistency rate) were identified. The stratified analysis revealed that programs combining remote tools with periodic in-person verification achieved 89 % data accuracy, compared to 63 % for fully remote approaches. The study proposes a hybrid monitoring and evaluation framework that integrates remote technologies with contextually tailored, participatory methods to balance efficiency and accountability. These findings underscore the urgency of adaptive M&E systems in crisis settings while highlighting the need for ethical and methodological safeguards. Delineating actionable strategies for optimizing remote management, this research advances pragmatic solutions for sustaining humanitarian operations in disrupted environments.

2025-01-01T00:00:00Z Sisimayi, Tapiwa Patson Muperi, James Tauya Everjoy Magwegwe Taruberekerwa Zivengwa Mashford Zenda https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6388 2024-12-11T11:24:06Z 2024-08-22T00:00:00Z

Title: Adaptation and Coping Strategies of Women to Reduce Food Insecurity in an Era of Climate Change: A Case of Chireya District, Zimbabwe Authors: Everjoy Magwegwe; Taruberekerwa Zivengwa; Mashford Zenda Abstract: The research investigated how women employ various adaptation and coping mechanisms to alleviate food insecurity resulting from the impacts of climate change. The documentation of the debate on the role of women in adaptation and coping with climate change is relatively limited. Climate change’s effect on food security in semi-arid areas could potentially increase the population of individuals residing in severe poverty. Over the past three decades, Africa’s sub-tropics have experienced irregular rainfall and prolonged droughts, which have negatively affected agriculture and food production. This research utilized a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches within a mixed-method design, guided by the pragmatic paradigm. Based on the results of the study, water harvesting/dam construction and income generating projects (IGPs) were identified as the most effective coping strategies for women. This study recommends implementing awareness campaigns to educate women farmers about the negative effects of climate change and the need for integrated and comprehensive capacity-building frameworks. By understanding the challenges women face in adapting to and coping with climate change, it is hoped that more effective and sustainable solutions can be developed.

2024-08-22T00:00:00Z Everjoy Magwegwe Taruberekerwa Zivengwa Mashford Zenda Terence Tapiwa Muzorewa Ramphal Sillah Tawanda William Chibanda https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6110 2024-05-08T14:26:45Z 2024-01-16T00:00:00Z

Title: The Efficacy of the Development Studies Programme in Zimbabwe’s Development Work Authors: Terence Tapiwa Muzorewa; Ramphal Sillah; Tawanda William Chibanda Abstract: The article analyses the impact of the development studies (DS) programme at Zimbabwean higher education institutions on development work in Zimbabwe. It describes how development studies became one of the most popular subjects in the humanities, offered by more than 10 universities and colleges in Zimbabwe. More than two decades later, there is convincing evidence that the programme’s influence on the development sector in Zimbabwe is diminishing. The article contends that the programme has been essential in sparking policy debates and incubating development theory among students and academics. However, the discipline has provided little in terms of actual practice and expertise in development work and community implementation. Therefore, development studies in Zimbabwe is an academic discipline with limited relevance to community development on the ground. This research is qualitative in nature. Qualitative data collected using purposive sampling is used to illustrate the rise of the discipline and its disparate effects on development activities in Zimbabwe. The article recommends a revision of the DS curriculum so that it fits the practical requirements for development work in Zimbabwe.

2024-01-16T00:00:00Z Terence Tapiwa Muzorewa Ramphal Sillah Tawanda William Chibanda Aaron Rwodzi Terence Tapiwa Muzorewa https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5801 2023-09-14T14:21:06Z 2023-06-30T00:00:00Z

Title: Land Resettlement and Elite Monopoly in Peri-urban Harare: The Colonial Legacy of Land Ownership in Post-colonial Zimbabwe, 2000-2019 Authors: Aaron Rwodzi; Terence Tapiwa Muzorewa Abstract: The article argues that the Fast-Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) in Zimbabwe was characterised by stratification which alienated the poor and the marginalised in Harare from accessing prime peri-urban land. It uses the case of peri-urban Harare to unpack dynamics around allocation of farmland during the post-colonial FTLRP since 2000. The article argues that class-based land segregation in the post-colonial era replaced racially based land segregation in colonial Zimbabwe. The article posits that instead of land being distributed to the deserving poor peasants, farmers and the vulnerable, land barons emerged from the ruling elite, business tycoons and war veterans who allocated to themselves land and multiple farms in an approach that typified the colonial land distribution process. The article further argues that land re-distribution must be examined because the post-Third Chimurenga land redistribution methodologies exhibited both elite monopoly over peri-urban urban centres and other renowned centres of mineral production and the absence of institutional regulatory mechanisms on the politically powerful. It adopts an empirical analysis of peri-urban land redistribution modalities with particular bias on spotting elite beneficiaries and the consequent emergence of land barons. The central argument is that in order to put Zimbabwe’s economy back on track and move towards a developmental approach, objective conditions for land reform are necessary as opposed to a political approach to land reform. The article uses qualitative methods of data collection and employs historical analysis of both secondary and primary documents relating to land issues in Harare as well as field observations.

2023-06-30T00:00:00Z Aaron Rwodzi Terence Tapiwa Muzorewa