Dr Precious Tirivanhu
TELEPHONE: 012 302 2210
EMAIL: ptirivanhu@hsrc.ac.za
Dr Precious Tirivanhu is African Research Fellow with the Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES) Research Division. He holds a PhD in Sustainable Agriculture form the University of Free State, MA in Environmental Policy and Planning and BSc Honours in Agricultural Economics from the University of Zimbabwe. He specialises in community operational research, food systems and agricultural development, community driven development, gender and youth inclusion, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E).
Experience and special projects: He has close to twenty years? experience in rural development programming and consulting work in several African countries including Benin, Botswana, Eswatini, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, with a number of funding agencies including the WK Kellogg Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Sida, DFID, IOM and USAID among others. This experience spans across various areas including monitoring and evaluation (M&E); agricultural value chain development; food security; institutional development for local authorities; youth and gender inclusion; building community resilience to external shocks; small and medium enterprise development; and community driven development. He sits on a number of Boards including Africa Centre for Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation (ACPC) www.acpc.org.zw and is a Founding Trustee of Pathways Autism Trust www.pathwaysautismtrust.org
He was Co-Principal Investigator for a study on the Socio-economic impacts of liquor in Mpumalanga Province between 2019-2020, commissioned by Mpumalanga economic Regulator (MER). Currently he is involved as an M&E expert for the Schools Out project that aims to create safer and more inclusive environments for learners by linking schools across Eastern and Southern Africa to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) support. Dr Tirivanhu was part of the HSRC team of researchers that reviewed the South African National Youth Policy 2020-2030 as well as development of the Monitoring and Evaluation Framework.
Before joining the HSRC, Dr Tirivanhu spent more than 15 years as a Rural Development Practitioner in a number of southern African countries. He was also a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results for Anglophone Africa (CLEAR-AA), at the University of Witwatersrand. During the past decade he has mostly conducted his research in the area of food systems and agricultural development, community operational research, monitoring and evaluation, systems thinking, and gender and women inclusion.
Publications: Dr Tirivanhu has published more than 20 scientific articles in both local and international peer-reviewed academic journals and 5 book chapters. He co-edited a book entitled Evaluation Landscape in Africa: Context, Methods and capacity, which was published by Sun Press in 2019. He is a peer reviewer for a number of journals including South African Journal for Agricultural Extension, Community Development Journal, Development in Practice Journal, Development Southern Africa and Systemic Practice and Action Research Journal (SPAR).
Special Edition African Insight Journal Publication
The goal of the writing retreat is to increase publication outputs without overburdening research staff. The workshop for the special issue will allow....
Evaluation of Access to Education support and service for children and youth with disabilities'
To conduct research on the scoping nd evaluation of access to education support and services for children and youth with dishabilles....
The Role of Traditional Food Systems in Rapid Urbanization
This project addresses the challenge of food insecurity in cities as experienced by migrant communities and explores the role of traditional foods in ....
Strengthening disaster risk resilience through enhance coordination mechanisms at local level flood hazard prone areas: Case study of Kwazulu-Natal
The aim of this study is to facilitate strengthening disaster risk resilience by improving coordination mechanisms through developing impact-based ear....
Exploring the role of urban agriculture in promoting the resilience of urban food systems: Rapid Case study of the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa
(a) To explore the role of urban agriculture on food system resilience; and (b) Provide knowledge that contributes towards evidence for urban food pol....
Engaging youth with research on substance abuse through performing arts
The prevalence of substance abuse among the youth, especially in rural areas such as the Limpopo province of South Africa continues to be a cause for ....
The Review of the current draft South African National Youth Policy (NYP) 2020-2030
a) To consolidate and integrate youth development into the mainstream of government policies, programmes and the national budget. b) To strengthen th....