Role:

Founder & Executive Director

Department:

(Reports to Board), Ex Officio Board Member

Qualifications:

> Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science,

> Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations and Affairs

> Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature

Areas of Expertise:

Research, Non-profit Consulting, Program Management, Project Management, Writing, Public Relations, Business Consulting, , Strategic Planning, Training, Outsourcing.

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Languages:

English, Shona, Spanish, French

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Biography:

Tadzoka Pswarayi is a social entrepreneur, international development consultant, researcher, and ecosystem builder with a profound commitment to wholistic economic social development. Much of Tadzoka’s work centers around sustainably empowering vulnerable communities such as youth and women, especially in Africa. 

As the Founder and Executive Director of Impact Hub Harare, she has plays a pivotal role in fostering innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development in Zimbabwe and across the African continent. Pswarayi’s work spans a diverse range of sectors with sustainable development at the core. 

Pswarayi’s extensive experience includes working from grassroots interventions to high level research and implementation with international development bodies such as the World Bank, African Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, USAID, European Union, and various UN Agencies. Her expertise has been instrumental in leading research and development projects, including the UNHCR’s Refugee Entrepreneurship Roadmap and GIZ’s SAIS program, aimed at fostering digital solutions in agriculture.

Tadzoka specialises in combining multi-sectoral approaches to achieve wholistic innovation and in some cases these interventions encompass technology. A passionate advocate for closing the gender digital divide, combating online gender-based violence, and promoting the participation of diverse women and marginalized groups in the IT sector, Pswarayi has led local tech communities such as Facebook Developer Circles, Women Techmakers (Google) and the Webflow community, enhancing access to global technology and capacity building for Africans.

Tadzoka is a participatory leadership facilitator, and a Kufunda Village board member (a Zimbabwean community based on participatory community processes). She has run programmes for rural and urban communities to integrate them into the broader local ecosystem using participatory methodologies such as the Art of Hosting and Theory U which encourage communities to innovate within themselves and become the agents of their own development. 

Her commitment to social impact, circularity, gender equality, and sustainable development has earned her recognition within the social entrepreneurship sector, making her a true trailblazer in promoting socio-economic innovation for the empowerment of underrepresented groups.