Zimbabwe Team

Mkhokheli Sithole is a versatile University Lecturer with several years’ experience whose interests blend development and livelihood issues. He is a holder of a PhD in Development Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He also holds an MPhil in Development Studies from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. He is currently a lecturer at the Institute of Development Studies at NUST. Dr Sithole is a Humanitarian specialist with excellent research skills in humanitarian issues. Having done a lot of research and publications in the humanitarian and development sector, he has acquired experience in livelihoods building, resilience building, and gender and vulnerability issues. He has also developed keen interests in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) issues having worked with organisations such as the Sexual Rights Centre since 2018.

Sipho currently works as Research Learning and Documenting Officer at the Sexual Right Centre, and has been with the team since 2016. Her role in the department is to document human rights violations, working with the sex worker and LGBTI community, as well as managing implementation of sensitization trainings with service providers to ensure that the services respond to the needs of these communities. She has previously worked as lead researcher in the Stepping Stones programme, a study collecting data on the Lived Experiences of Young persons in Sex Work between the ages of 18- 24 years with a history of having started sex work before reaching the legal age of majority.