Happison Siduna

MEL practitioner with 4+ years of field experience supporting humanitarian and development programmes across IRC, Plan International, and World Bicycle Relief. Skilled in field research, data quality assurance, beneficiary targeting and verification, post-distribution monitoring, community engagement and programme documentation. Experienced across WASH, livelihoods and resilience, cash assistance, education programming and child protection-related research, with consistent application of informed consent, confidentiality and safeguarding standards.

M&E Field Assistant at World Bicycle Relief (2021-11 – 2023-07)

Delivered MEL implementation across Bicycles for Educational Empowerment (BEEP) and Mobilized Communities, covering four wards and 300+ participants.

• Executed baseline surveys, routine monitoring visits, rapid assessments and post-distribution monitoring using KoboToolbox and ODK.
• Maintained analysis-ready datasets through structured data cleaning, validation and QA in Excel and basic SPSS.
• Produced programme documentation and success stories that fed into donor reporting and informed programme learning and scale-up decisions.
• Applied informed consent, confidentiality and ethical fieldwork standards consistently across all participant engagements.

Enumerator / Research Assistant at Plan International Zimbabwe (2021-04 – 2021-10)

• Trained and supervised 15 enumerators under the Urban Social Assistance Programme, overseeing field protocols, data quality and daily coordination.
• Supported beneficiary targeting, registration and post-distribution monitoring for cash assistance programming in urban and peri-urban communities.
• Conducted qualitative data collection for the Our Voices, Our Future child marriage study, leading FGDs and KIIs with vulnerable populations; findings published in an externally available report.
• Managed quantitative and qualitative datasets in compliance with research protocols, improving data readiness for programme decision-making.
• Applied ethical data collection, safeguarding and informed consent procedures across all community interactions.

Enumerator / Research Assistant at International Rescue Committee (IRC) (2017-02 – 2019-09)

• Supported livestock and livelihoods resilience programming, WASH-related monitoring and emergency cash transfer responses across drought-affected communities.
• Conducted baseline surveys, monitoring visits and post-distribution monitoring for 500+ beneficiaries, strengthening programme tracking and accountability.
• Executed beneficiary registration and verification, improving accuracy of targeting records and reducing duplication risk.
• Supported Community Animal Health Workers with data recording and reporting, strengthening local data management capacity.
• Documented beneficiary feedback and field observations to support adaptive programme management and field reporting.

Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainable Project Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation – Midlands State University (2024)

BA (Hons) in Development Studies – Midlands State University (2018)