Associate Professor Christopher Phiri is a Senior Director within the development space. Director of Programme Design, Research Monitoring and Evaluation for the past 13 years, he has had extensive experience in strategy development of government development programmes addressing children, men and youth on resilience and livelihood socio-economic empowerment in enterprise development, skills development, and self-awareness. He led strategy implementation through the development of scorecards at all levels, business plans, annual business plan, overseen programme capability and performance review. Prof Phiri has applied global, regional within SADC and national policies on resilience and livelihood applying different context-specific models that address the vulnerability.
Prof Phiri has provided a strategic leadership role in supporting applied research and programme quality assurance for supporting youth, women and men in rural and urban programmes through design, knowledge management, programme implementation, research, monitoring and evaluation. He has managed technical teams, trained staff and communities facilitating development, mentored, coached staff, SMMEs and CBOs on community development.
He has provided advice to national governments, provinces, communities and NGOs in the development and implementation of the provincial growth and development strategy. Prof Phiri has supervised postgraduate students and lectured at Universities. He also reviewed, developed and managed the medium-term strategic framework, the monitoring and evaluation framework and have empowered government staff as well as on government-wide monitoring and evaluation system. He has trained, mentored, coached vulnerable communities in livelihood programme, business enterprise and climate-smart agriculture initiatives for smallholder farmers, community-led farmer management natural regeneration of plants, savings groups and access to finance and markets. Through the resilience programme, he has trained vulnerable groups in project management, financial management, value chain development, monitoring and evaluation. He is an author who has published academic articles and published two books.
