Legally established in Zimbabwe in 2019, Zimbabwe Health Interventions (ZHI) is a non-profit human development organization, registered as a Trust under the Zimbabwe Deeds Registries Act (Chapter 20:05). Through the United States Government’s Presidential Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR) funding, ZHI implemented the Zimbabwe HIV Care and Treatment (ZHCT) and DREAMS projects in various districts across Zimbabwe through a sub award from FHI360 . ZHI is now implementing two USAID-funded projects namely; The Accelerated and Comprehensive HIV Care for Epidemic Control in Zimbabwe Project (ACCE), formerly the Zimbabwe HIV Care and Treatment Project (ZHCT); and; the Re-Ignite, Innovate, Sustain and Empower (RISE) Project, formerly the Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS Free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) project.
Overview
Who We Are
Vision
The vision of ZHI is to see the populations we serve live with optimal health, well-being, and self-sufficiency.
Mission
Our mission is to develop and deliver innovative and sustainable high-impact, integrated health interventions to the communities we serve, while working with and strengthening existing institutions.
Core Values
History
Our History
ZHI was established in 2019 by a group of Zimbabweans with the aim of providing local solutions to the human development challenges in the country through harnessing their various skills and expertise. Having successfully managed development projects at FHI360, this group of young visionaries sought to leverage on that unique experience and their strong capacity to establish a sustainable local entity which would continue implementing programs to complement the Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ)’s efforts. ZHI is legally registered as a local non-governmental organization (NGO).
Where we work
Geographic Scope
ZHI is currently implementing the ACCE project in Buhera, Mutasa, Mutare, Makoni , Chipinge, Gokwe South, Kwekwe, Mberengwa and Gweru districts while the RISE project is being implemented in Gwanda, Matobo, Insiza, Beitbridge, Bulilima and Mangwe, Bulawayo, Gweru and Mazowe districts. The map outlines ZHI’s presence in the various geographic locations in Zimbabwe.
Board Of Trustees
Our Board
After graduating with an Accounting degree from University of Zimbabwe in 2002, he completed his articles in 2005 and rose through the ranks to Senior Audit Manager in the Audit and Assurance department of Deloitte. During this time, he was seconded to the United States of America and Namibia
He then moved to the Advisory Services on the re-introduction of the service line at Deloitte and accumulated over 9 years of experience in consulting and transaction services such as due diligence reviews, valuations and corporate finance structuring to a diverse portfolio of clients. During this time, he also provided consulting services in Malawi, Zambia, South Africa and Tanzania. He is currently the Corporate Finance Executive at Mangwana Capital, an investment advisory and private equity firm.
Steven also holds a Bachelor of Accounting Science from University of South Africa (Honours)
In leading the Sexual Rights Centre team, Musa has created an SRC brand that is synonymous with bold innovation, and sustainability contributing towards positive transformation in support of the organisation’s mission and goals.
Prior to being the executive director at the Sexual Rights Centre, Musa held a number of increasingly responsible roles in executive and general management with Oxfam and the Matabeleland Aids Council which all posted recognisable feats in programme implementation and management. As an agile manager, she is known for her strong project management skills and her unwavering commitment to positive development and empowerment of marginalised groups within the community and the nation at large.
As a strategist and accessible leader, Musa is known for driving growth and sustainability with expertise in programme design, grant management, MEL and policy analysis. Her skills have ensured that interventions are tailor made to respond to the most vulnerable in the communities and inline with donor requirements and organisational standards.
Musa understands the strategic importance of good collaboration and community mobilisation in civil society to deliver robust and innovative interventions. She understands that the goal for every individual is the full enjoyment of their rights that ensure development that does not leave anyone behind.
Musa earned her MSc in Development Studies from the National University of Science and Technology, and Bachelor of Arts in English and Communications at the Zimbabwe Open University.
When Musa is not collaborating with stakeholders and ensuring the sustained wellness of every person, she can be seen enjoying quality time with her children, and enjoying perfomantive arts.
Musa believes in finding and nurturing the best in everyone, and it being a starting point of understanding an individual beyond everything that clouds communities, be it sexual identity, gender identity, ethnicity and language, or political idoelogy. She notes that when we refuse them the opportunity to be citizens, we also refuse our world the opportunity to be changed by them.
Management
Top Management
ACCE Project
He has been responsible for pioneering piloting and scaling-up ART in the public sector in Zimbabwe. He has been instrumental in rapidly rolling out of WHO guidelines and ensuring access to lifesaving ART at primary health level through decentralization of HIV care and treatment to lower levels including differentiated service delivery models. He was also responsible for strengthening community linkages through the development and rollout of the tracking and tracing standard operating procedures to ensure retention in care and treatment. Currently, he is supporting the MOHCC to pilot AHD packages of care including decentralization and task shifting of TB LAM, CrAg, and Omega VISITECT CD4 testing at primary level health level by non-laboratory personnel.
He received his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree and Masters in Public Health from the University of Zimbabwe and has attended numerous trainings to build his competencies in HIV/AIDS commodities and clinical management, quality improvement, and operations research.
In her last assignment she served as the National Medical Director for AHF Zimbabwe and led the team that supported the MOHCC ATP in the establishment of Centers of Excellence for HIV Prevention care and Treatment within the public health sector in Zimbabwe with emphasis placed on providing comprehensive integrated care under one shop. Tafadzwa is very good at networking and has collaborated with Ministry of Health and Child Care representatives as well as other partners including PEPFAR implementing partners working in HIV programming to improve the care of PLHIV through implementation of quality improvement initiatives in areas such as TB Preventive Therapy, scaling up Viral load testing, management of PLHIV failing second line antiretroviral therapy to name just a few. She has also serves in a number of National HIV Care and Treatment Technical working Groups (TWG) including Third Line ART TWG, Advanced HIV Disease TWG and Differentiated Service Delivery TWG.
Tafadzwa is is very passionate about local use of routinely available data for strengthening quality of both clinical care and programme performance and is actively involved in operations research with a number of presentations at national and international conferences as well as publications in peer reviewed journals. She also sits in the Zimbabwe HIV Clinicians Society committee which is an active organization with technical advisory roles to the MOHCC as well as training roles to clinicians across the country.
She has worked in programs and projects supporting the Ministry of Health and Child Care in close collaboration with various funding agencies like USAID, NIH, UNICEF, EU, and BURNET – AUSAID since 2009. She is an active member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Zimbabwe and Women Chartered Accountants Network in Zimbabwe (WeCAN -Zimbabwe).
RISE Project
George is a qualified accountant who holds a Master of Commerce in Accounting Degree as well as a Bachelor of Accountancy degree. He is also a holder of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA) and Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSAZ) qualifications.