Associate Consultant - Liason For Namibia

Dr Canicio Dzingirai is an economist, mentor, educator, avid researcher, research consultant, development practitioner and strategist, and development economics and finance specialist who is interested in serving the community at large especially the poor, vulnerable and underprivileged groups. Dr Canicio is part of the global team working towards and proffering solutions towards the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These packaged-in-one attributes are confirmed by his outstanding track record of churning quality and polished and top-notch human capital, consultancy work, community engagement and mentoring tangible outcomes with a bias towards socially, financially and economically marginalized people like the disabled, youths and women. Such outstanding achievements have been necessitated, accelerated and cartelized by his socioeconomic exposure to vagaries of rural upbringing. Despite his humble and unfavourable upbringing environment. Dr Canicio’s hardworking, economic, banking and development finance prowess was evidenced by his outstanding academic profile which among many others achieved accolades includes overall graduating student book prize, outstanding achievers and Vice Chancellor best student and theses Awards.

Dr Canicio’s research includes more than 17 publications in high impact refereed Journals, 8 conference presentations with conference proceeding papers and research seminars facilitation, moderation and presentation as well as a rapporteur. He has mentored and co-authored research articles with many undergraduate and postgraduate students some of whom were awarded prestigious and competitive PhD scholarships and funding in African (Rhodes Scholarships) and international highly ranked Universities. Most of these publications were extracted from undergraduate and postgraduate theses under his tutelage. Bulky of his published articles borders around green and blue financing, rural infrastructure development, development finance and economics, financial inclusion and equity, political economy, institutional economics and finance, rural health insurance and financing, programme interventions and risk and vulnerability management. One crucial evidence-based program intervention borne out of Dr. Canicio’s research and consultancy work was the Villages Loans and Savings Associations (VLAS) pro-poor tailor-made model as a panacea and antidote to rural poverty eradication, health and education outcome improvement among vulnerable and underprivileged groups. Some of the successful major consultancy, grants and research funding awarded and completed includes: