About Us
Nepachem CC is a specialist, innovative, boutique consultancy focusing mainly on enterprise development, capacity building, monitoring and evaluation. The company has three dimensional experience extending in time that cuts across a number of industries and functional disciplines. Nepachem leverages a broad network of expert associates build over years of collaboration to identify and provide solutions for client needs and build sustainable value.
Nepachem consultants comprise of an inter-disciplinary team with a unique combination of experience delivering international performance and knowledge management systems. Nepachem offers to its clients improvement in service delivery model, short time to completion, service reliability, and lower implementation cost.
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Nepachem Key Consultants
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| Lovemore Makunike |
Lovemore Tafirenyika Makunike holds BSc, MSc and MBA degrees and currently oversees all consulting assignments carried out under the Nepachem stable.
Starting his career as an analytical chemist Lovemore has matured into a seasoned business development and enterprise development specialist with 22 years involvement in programs and projects geared towards the economic development of developing countries through promotion of industrial development, investment, trade and export promotion, capacity building as well as business linkages.
He has been involved in creating sustainable conditions for enterprise creation and growth to respond to local and export markets; Reducing the cost of doing business and encouraging investment; Assisting in positioning the private sector to respond to opportunities in specific categories of the market; and Increasing the number of formal enterprises, employment and skilled workers.
Other competencies accrued over the years include business and technology incubation, commercialization of novel projects, SMMEs support, innovation consultancy, designing analysis plans, monitoring and evaluation, marketing and socio-economic surveys, data quality control, data analysis and report writing. He has a thorough understanding of the key cross-cutting issues of Sub-Saharan Africa in general.
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Dr Jethro Zuwarimwe |
Membership of professional bodies:
Member of Zimbabwe Institute of Regional and Urban Planners
Member of Agricultural Economics Association of Southern Africa
Member of African Association of Agricultural Economics
Member of PASCAL
WKK Foundation Southern Africa Leadership Fellow
Ford Foundation Research Fellow in its Urban Governance and Management Project.
Personal Skills:
More than 17 years of experience in enterprise development, development planning and socio-economic research. In the past 6 years I co-authored and presented more than 5 papers on development issues at international conferences in Iceland, Scotland, South Africa and Hungary. Was part of the technical team that designed the Regional Masters in Economics and Gender Program Funded by UNDP and hosted by Makerere University of Uganda as well as the marketing strategy. I was also involved in extensive and intensive analysis of Local Economic Development challenges faced by the region at large. I have also acquired skills in research analysis and technical report production and presentation skills through participation at professional forums. Currently I am working on two book chapters on: Growing the smallholder farm sector: Case studies of successful policies, programmes and projects in South Africa and Growing the rural non farm sector: Case studies of successful policies, programmes and projects in South Africa.
Areas of competency:-
1 Socio economic research, 2 Programme and Project Planning Monitoring and Evaluation, 3 Local Economic Development Planning and Facilitation, 4 Agricultural Policy Analysis and Food Security 5 Environmental Impact Assessment. 6. Farmers and Commodity Producers’ Institutional and Organizational Development and Capacity Building. 7 Fundraising and Proposal writing, 8 Facilitation of Strategic Development Planning, 9 Entrepreneurship Training, 10 Leadership Training and Networking. He has developed courses for Agriculture and Rural Development, Institutional Economics, Agric Policy, Research Methods, Local Economic Development and Town Planning.
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Mary Kathryn Cope |
MK as she is popularly known has been a mentor to the Nepachem managing partner
Education:
University of Kentucky
B.A. History/French
International Work/Study Exchange Program – France (x2)
M.A. History - US/British/Latin American (Ethnic/Immigrant)
ABD History/Urban Studies – US (Ethnic/Immigrant)
Ford Foundation Fellowship – Comparative Analysis of Post Civil War Urban Development in the South (Atlanta/Birmingham)
Areas of expertise include:
Economic Growth, New Business Development, Innovative Program Design, Public/Private Partnership Development, HIV/AIDS & Business, Responsible Program Management/Oversight, Strategic Planning, Budgeting, Program Impact, Poverty Alleviation/Livelihoods, Diaspora, Responsible/Pro-Poor Tourism, Volunteer Services, Bilateral/Multilateral Donor Negotiations.
The strategic focus is the development of meaningful public/private partnerships, as well as the integration of socio-economic factors in the overall context of health, governance and education.
While actual programs developed may be primarily economic activities, the holistic approach for design incorporated many aspects of the larger community toward the goal of access and wellness. In the end, program impact is magnified by working within a system which must be analyzed and integrated rather than simply implement individual components.
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Mrs Margret Venge |
Education:
Masters in Business Administration - Eastern and Southern Africa Management Institute (ESAMI), Tanzania
Diploma - Chartered Secretary & Administrator, Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators, Zimbabwe
Diploma in Education, University of Zimbabwe
Member of Proffesional Bodies:
Associate Member-Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators International
Associate Member-Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators- Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (Volunteer)
Margaret has extensive experience working in the humanitarian and development work sector with large International organisations. Her duties involved development of funding plans, budgeting, training staff and overall finance management and administration for the food distribution, HIV & AIDS, OVC and Livelihood programmes.
Her other capabilities include:
• Familiarity with EU development programmes, procedures and processes.
• Capacity building and project monitoring for non-state actors
• Community development.
• Conducting research interviews
• Development and enhancement of financial and administrative systems and procedures.
• Baseline survey skills
• Capacity needs assessment skills
• Financial assessments and development of financial strategies; Financial forecasting
• Good analytical skills
• Grant management
• HIV & AIDS Programming.
• Human Resources Management
• Internal auditing
• OVC programming
• Participatory and supportive supervision skill
• Preparation and review of project proposals including budgets.
• Preparation of donor reports in line with each donor’s reporting requirements.
• Preparation of multi-year programme operational plans
• Primary and secondary research
• Project cycle management skills.
• Project Planning and Management
• Strategic planning skills.
• Strong negotiation and problem solving skills.
• Training and development in financial, human resources and administrative systems, including Training of trainers