Previously, Mutumbuka held various senior management positions in the education sector at the World Bank from 1990-2007. Prior to joining the World Bank, he held major political appointments in Zimbabwe, including supervising the implementation of policies in six ministries (Education, Health, Social Welfare, Housing, Youth and Sport, and Community Development and Women’s Affairs). He served as minister of Education and Culture from 1980 to 1988 and as minister of Higher Education from 1988 to 1989.

He has served as the chairman of the Zimbabwe National Commission of UNESCO since Zimbabwe joined UNESCO in 1980. Before Zimbabwe’s independence, Mutumbuka served as minister of Education and Culture in the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU (PF)) from 1975 to 1980, and in that capacity was responsible for the education of all Zimbabweans in refugee camps in Mozambique.

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At Results for Development (R4D), Mr. Nyamuziwa works closely with team leads to support the financial and operational excellence of R4D’s Innovation practice. He manages project finance reports, updates project forecasts, develops proposal budgets, supports the drafting and refining of suitable finance processes, tools and guidance for the Innovation practice and its associated projects.

Before joining R4D, Mr. Nyamuziwa worked for the non profit organization CARE International in Mozambique and Zimbabwe where he managed budgets, contracts, subawards and donor reporting for a portfolio of projects. He also spearheaded project budget design and final cost negotiations with donors including FCDO, USAID and UN Agencies.

Throughout his career, Mr. Nyamuziwa has successfully controlled costs and closed out projects including FCDO Improving Girls’ Access through Transforming Education (IGATE), GAC Supporting Transition, Retention and Training for Girls (Start4Girls), USAID Promoting Recovery in Zimbabwe (PRIZE), SIDA Youth Empowerment Project, UNDP Enhancing Community Resilience and Sustainability and the USAID-Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative (PCTFI) – Cohort 3. While working at Care International, he helped to strengthen the capacity of sub-awardees in country offices including in Zimbabwe and Mozambique resulting in improved financial reports, increased accuracy and reduced budget overruns.

Mr. Nyamuziwa holds a bachelor of accountancy (honors) degree. He speaks English and Shona.

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At Results for Development (R4D), Ms. Sadagopan is a program manager at the Governance Action Hub, an initiative to facilitate and strengthen coalitions for governance reform and action. In this role, she provides technical and operational support, managing partnerships and stakeholder engagement, as well as supporting implementation of workstreams on local development processes, state capture, and climate action/energy transition. Prior to this, she led the research engagement of Leveraging Transparency to Reduce Corruption, a program to promote transparency, accountability and participation in natural resource governance across Nigeria, Peru, Colombia, Mongolia, and Zimbabwe.

Prior to this, Ms. Sadagopan supported a behavioral evaluation of menstruation as a barrier to girls’ education in Nepal. She also worked in Thailand, first as a high school science and English teacher through a Princeton in Asia fellowship and then as a researcher focusing on Burmese armed ethnic conflicts through media and advocacy outreach.

Ms. Sadagopan holds an MPH in health behavior from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as well as a BS in biochemistry and BA in human biology from North Carolina State University. She is a native speaker of English and Tamil, and speaks conversational Spanish and French.

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The FT program is designed to test the application of different frontier technologies to development challenges and explore their potential to accelerate progress towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. It does so by supporting DFID staff and their partners to understand how these technologies work, and then conduct rapid experiments to discover whether (and which) frontier technologies have the ability to improve the speed, reach and/or depth of development impact within their programming.

In the first phase of the FT program (2016-19), implemented by IMC Worldwide and Brink, 29 pilots were implemented with DFID country teams in 15 countries across Africa and South Asia, including testing new artificial intelligence-enabled tools for diagnosing tuberculosis in South Africa, and smart solar batteries supporting healthcare clinics in rural Zimbabwe. For the second phase of FT (2020-23), R4D is now working with the other Frontier Technologies Hub partners, to continue these pilots in more countries, sharing the learning from these to help build the global evidence base, and exploring pathways to scaling up the most successful.

“We are delighted to have R4D provide leadership for the second, expanded phase of our Frontier Technologies program,” said Magdalena Banasiak, senior innovation adviser, Research & Evidence Division, DFID. As an organization with deep expertise in innovation, research and learning as well as a commitment to exploring new models of development practice for greater impact, R4D brings a wealth of experience and value to the team.”

Although more and more actors around the world are starting to experiment with different frontier technologies, there is still widespread uncertainty around how they can be responsibly and effectively applied to help address complex development problems. As well as continuing to grow the evidence base around what does and doesn’t work, this next phase of FT will also expand direct support to DFID staff and other international partners around the world to understand how to integrate these new technologies into their policy and programming so they can stay ahead of the curve. It will also look at the critical success factors, enablers and constraints to helping take proven pilots to impact at scale.

“Joining the Frontier Technologies program is an exciting step forward for R4D in helping the global community of development actors harness the potential of these technologies in their work,” said Tom Feeny, senior program director of R4D’s scaling innovations practice. “We believe these technologies present a valuable opportunity to dramatically improve how products and services are delivered to benefit the lives of vulnerable populations around the world, while also supporting systems-level improvements in health, education and many other sectors.”

Research and learning will be a key part of R4D’s contribution to the FT Hub partnership, leveraging the expertise of staff from R4D’s Scaling Innovation practice with those from the Evaluation and Adaptive Learning team. In particular, the program will function as a great source of knowledge on many different areas, including (a) learning how specific frontier technologies can positively impact development problems in particular sectors; (b) better understanding the country-level innovation processes and technology ecosystems that are needed to enable these technologies to work at scale; and (c) experimenting with new forms of partnership that will be important between development agencies, governments, NGOs and academic institutions to help embed frontier technologies as part of system-wide responses.

Finally, FT aims to move quickly to explore how frontier technologies might help with immediate challenges and development priorities as and when they emerge. An example of this is the global call launched by FT Hub partners in March 2020, for technologies that can support the rapid manufacture of Ventilation Systems to support health systems in countries around the world fight the coronavirus epidemic. Being able to adapt the program to both immediate and longer-term needs in this way is a unique characteristic of FT, and one of the many reasons why R4D is excited to be part of this program over the next few years.

For more information and regular blogs / updates on the FT program, visit https://medium.com/frontier-technology-livestreaming

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About Results for Development
Results for Development (R4D) is a leading non-profit global development partner. We collaborate with change agents around the world — government officials, civil society leaders and social innovators — to create strong systems that support healthy, educated people. We help our partners move from knowing their goal to knowing how to reach it. We combine global expertise in health, education and nutrition with analytic rigor, practical support for decision-making and implementation and access to peer problem-solving networks. Together with our partners, we build self-sustaining systems that serve everyone and deliver lasting results. Then we share what we learn so others can achieve results for development, too. For more information, visit our website at: www.r4d.org.

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“We are excited to welcome Karen and Robin as our newest fellows ” said Mark Roland, education program director at Results for Development. “Since R4D’s founding, we have looked to our fellows — recognized experts in their fields — for their advice on how to support country change agents to build strong, sustainable education systems. I’m confident Karen and Robin will prove to be valuable thought partners, and I look forward to collaborating with and learning from them.”

Dr. Mundy was the chief technical officer at the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), where she led the development of GPE’s Strategic Plan 2015-2020, its Gender Equality Strategy, its Results Framework, Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy (2015-2020), and the publication of GPE’s first two Results Reports. Before that, she worked at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto — as a Canada Research Chair (2002-2012), and as the associate dean of research and innovation (2012-2014) and director of the  Comparative, International and Development Education Centre (CIDEC) at OISE. She began her professional career as a teacher in rural Zimbabwe, and became an assistant professor, international and comparative education at Stanford University prior to joining OISE. Her published research has focused on the global politics of “education for all” programs and policies; educational policy and reform in sub-Saharan Africa; and the role of civil society organizations in educational change.

Dr. Horn has worked in international development for more than 30 years, 20 of which were spent at the World Bank, where he worked as an education sector manager. His expertise includes project and policy design and execution, system reform, and quantitative analysis for low- and middle-income countries. He has worked with governments and led strategic and operational work in international development on issues that include education quality, system diagnostics, assessment of learning, data systems and system-wide reform.

Both join an accomplish team of senior fellows supporting R4D’s education practice, including:

• Nicholas Burnett, a renowned economist focused on education, who previously led R4D’s education portfolio.
• Maureen Samms-Vaughan, a professor of child health, child development and behavior at the University of the West Indies, a development consultant and behavioral pediatrician. She was also the first chair of Jamaica’s Early Childhood Commission.
• Michelle Neuman, a highly-regarded early childhood development expert and former R4D program director.
• Birger Fredriksen, a leading expert on the development of education in developing countries and former director for human development at the World Bank.

For a full list of R4D fellows, click here.

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About Results for Development

Results for Development (R4D) is a leading non-profit global development partner. We collaborate with change agents around the world — government officials, civil society leaders and social innovators — to create strong systems that support healthy, educated people. We help our partners move from knowing their goal to knowing how to reach it. We combine global expertise in health, education and nutrition with analytic rigor, practical support for decision-making and implementation and access to peer problem-solving networks. Together with our partners, we build self-sustaining systems that serve everyone and deliver lasting results. Then we share what we learn so others can achieve results for development, too. For more information, visit our website at: www.r4d.org.

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Video of the discussion is available here.

Speakers

• Jo Bourne, Chief Technical Officer, Global Partnership for Education
• Nick Burnett, R4D Senior Fellow
• Julie Cram, USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Economic Growth, Education and Environment
• Robert Jenkins, UNICEF Education Chief
• Gina Lagomarsino, R4D President and CEO
• Dzingai Mutumbuka, Former Minister of Education for Zimbabwe
• Jaime Saavedra, Global Director for Education, World Bank

The following questions were explored:

• To what extent is the current aid architecture fit for purpose?
• Which reforms to the current aid architecture are most critical? What are the barriers to enacting such reforms and how can they be overcome?
• Which actors are best placed to lead reform efforts?
• Are there lessons that might be learned from the organization of the aid architecture in other sectors?

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At Results for Development, Ms. Chidah is the deputy country lead and monitoring, evaluation, learning and accountability officer for the Botswana office of the African Collaborative for Health Financing Solutions project (ACS). She is responsible for office operations and oversees monitoring and evaluation, learning and accountability and change and knowledge management.

Before joining R4D, Ms. Chidah coordinated and contributed to a joint M&E technical working Ggroup in Botswana by participating in the review of ARV program indicators to improve the quality of program data. Additionally, she mentored a group of M&E officers at the district level and two AFYABORA Consortium Fellows in monitoring and evaluation. She is a current  member of the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS).

Ms. Chidah Nodumo holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Southern Africa (UNISA) and a BED in educational administration, planning and policy studies from the University of Zimbabwe. She also holds a certificate in global health effectiveness from Harvard University, completed the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) offered by Carleton University and The World Bank, and holds a certificate in monitoring and evaluation of HIV/AIDS from the University of Pretoria. She speaks English, Ndebele, Shona and Setswana.

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