Personal and professional background

Zipporah Wanaswa is a professional in programme development, quality and management; monitoring, evaluation and Learning and strategic thinking. She has over ten years of excellent white paper writing on research, programme strategies, project documents and reports. She has a background on child protection, gender and power analysis, systems synthesis and practice and grants aquisition. With over 12 years of experience in proposal writing to government donors foundations and UN agencies; Zipporah has cumulatively contributed to raising over GBP. 45,000,000 while working with non-profit and private sector agencies.

Services offered and examples

1. Research, reports, programme strategies and project documents:

• Terre des Hommes Netherlands (TdH NL):  Reviewed and edited a GFEMS-funded research paper for Eastern Ugandaś coffee supply chains (2022)

• TdH NL: Project documents on the trafficking of children for Child Labour in the Agricultural sector and Sexual Exploitation of Children in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda (2022).

• Oxfam: Working alongside INTRAC on the Common Approaches to Programme Design and Development (CAPD)’ a quality standards guide for Oxfam staff involved in programme design and development (2018). 

• VSO International: Reports on Participatory Researches carried out in Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya and Malawi; covering Core global Programme Areas in Inclusive Education, Adolescent Youth Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (AYSRHR) and Maternal and Newborn Health respectively (2016).

• Reviewed and edited the National Special Needs Education Survey (SNES) report conducted by VSO Jitolee and Kenyaś Ministry of Education and funded by DFID (FCDO) (2016).

2. Proposal development and writing:

• TdH NL: Teenage Online Safety proposal funded by Impact Amplofiyer (2023)

• ActionAid: Regional programme frameworks on Women’s Economic Empowerment, Climate Resilient Agriculture and Humanitarian Response in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Somaliland and Ethiopia (2021). 

• Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA): Influencing Government Accountability towards Climate Justice proposal funded by SDA (2021). 

• ActionAid Kenya: Building Drought Resilience of Communities in Northern Kenya, a proposal funded by the M-Pesa Foundation (2021).

• Oxfam: Gender Transformative & Responsible Business Investment in Southeast Asia (GRAISEA) 2; a multi-country project funded by SDA covering Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, The Philippines and Pakistan (2018). 

• Oxfam in Myanmar: Governance and Violence Against Women Prevention proposal funded by EU (2018). 

3. Publications:

• Learning from the Design of Multi-Country programmes: Internal Oxfam Document (2017).

• Influence of women’s political participation on governance in Africa; ISBN 978-3-659-45887-3; Lambert Academic Publishing (2014).

• Influence of Women’s political participation on governance in Bondo Constituency, Kenya; University of Nairobi, Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (2013).