 Meet Enet Mukurazita, the track coordinator on Monitoring & Evalution within the HIV prevention project on Life Skills, quality and scale in Zimababwe. Enet works as a General Manager for Young Africa. She lives in Harare and is married to Godfrey, together they have 3 children.
What do you expect of your role within the HIV prevention project on quality and scale?
I expect to receive full support from my track members, overall coordinator, other STOP AIDS NOW! partners as well as the STOP AIDS NOW! project leader to fully execute my duties as the track coordinator. I also expect to learn the latest ins and outs of Monitoring and Evaluation.
What do you hope to learn from this poject? What do you hope to get out of this (for your organisation and for you personally)?
I hope to increase my knowledge in Monitoring and Evaluation, Volunteer Management and Hard to Reach Youth. I hope to gain enough knowledge to be able to improve our Life skills programme here at Young Africa especially in terms of quality and hopefully expand the programme. I hope that as Young Africa we will be able to really monitor and evaluate our lifeskills programme because that is what is lacking for us as an organisation.
What challenges do you foresee?
The main challenges that I foresee at the end of this programme is poor implementation of the knowledge that we have gained, as a result of lack of funding. This capacity building will become useless unless resources are channelled in our programmes to improve and expand on them.
What makes this project of interest for you?
This project is different from the others because it seeks to build the capacity of organisations working on HIV prevention and this is important because when donors release their funds they will be assured that they are giving to competent organisations. In Zimbabwe most organisations receive funding for HIV Prevention are not capacitated. For example, the National Aids Council has a very weak M&E system that measures impact . It would be good if a survey is done in Zimbabwe on the capacity of organisations working HIV Prevention.
Who would you like to swop jobs with for one day?
I would like to swop jobs with the director of UNAIDS for one day. I would like to show him that UNAIDS must encompass capacity building of organisations and government agencies in their respective area of HIV they are working in (e.g. Youth, women).
Anything else you would like to share?
I would like to thank STOP AIDS NOW! for considering Zimbabwe as one of the countries they are investing in, in terms of capacity building. We hope that within a few years you will be able to see the results of your capacity building.
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