Building Resilience to Climate Change in Selected Districts in Zimbabwe

Mhlanga Lindah (Prof.) is an environmental scientist (Biologist) with expertise and experience in freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems in Zimbabwe. Lindah has a strong research background and is experienced in issues of resource use governance and is well versed with governance and policy issues related to natural resources management in Zimbabwe. Through a book that she edited and co-authored (Fragmentation of natural resources management: experiences from Lake Kariba. PLAAS. Lit-Verlag Switzerland) she advocates for an ecosystem approach to natural resource management emphasizing the interrelatedness of the ecological and socio-economic dynamics of natural resources. She actively engaged in the outcome monitoring surveys under the Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund project.

Nyikahadzoi Kefasi (Prof.) has a PhD in Applied Social Sciences from the University of Zimbabwe. He is the current Director of the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development Institute at the University of Zimbabwe. His research interests are in institutional economics, climate change, food security and innovation systems.

Stark Jayne (Dr.) is an Agricultural Economist who has lived and worked in Zimbabwe for over 30 years. Formerly a senior lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Zimbabwe, she currently provides Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning support to resilience -related projects including, the Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund (ZRBF, 2018 -2023), a multi - donor program that sought to improve the resilience of about 830 000 people across 18 districts in Zimbabwe. Jayne was the Research and Resilience lead for ZRBF's Resilience Knowledge Hub and provided thought leadership on resilience approaches and anchored the team's technical thinking on multiple knowledge products and resilience tool kits. During that time she also trained and supported other researchers, including University academics and graduate students, on understanding and analysing ZRBF quantitative and qualitative outcome monitoring data, to help surface evidence and build a repository of actionable learning and capacity building on what matter and works for resilience building.