M&E Experience in Community Development

M & E Experience

Proven Impact for Grassroots Creative Initiatives

Specializing in the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs), RuramaiAFRICA provides expert Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) services to projects dedicated to community development. We transform artistic activity into measurable economic and social success. Our approach ensures that investments in arts, heritage, and youth employment are provable, scalable, and strategically aligned. We leverage rigorous data collection and culturally sensitive metrics to accurately document the sustainable impact of community-focused creative programs like DREAMS IC.

CultureACTIONs Project (2017 to 2022)

RACAH worked with Chenhaka Trust under the CultureACTIONs project which was funded by SIDA through the Culture Fund of Zimbabwe Trust. This Project seeked to harness the transformative power of creative Arts to Challenge retrogressive societal norms in to reduce Gender Based Violence, Child Marriage at the same time raising awareness on Environmental Sustainability in Makoni District, Chipinge District and Mazowe District. Our role was programing in school and community activities, collecting, analysing and reporting data, key performance indicator tracking, facilitating and leading community dialogues

DREAMS IC

RACAH also worked with Chenhaka Trust under the DREAMS INNOVATION CHALLENGE funded by PEPFAR through the Culture Fund which was implemented from 2017 until 2018 in Makoni, Chipinge, Mutare, Mazowe, Gweru and Bulawayo. The project aimed at debunking inaccurate values and attitudes on culture and women’s bodily integrity and the reproductive health rights of adolescent girls and young women.

RACAH Products & Services

Key Highlights

Our work is designed to offer technical support to the Creative Arts Value Chain and ecosystems through the following services:

Monitoring & Evaluation

We help Arts Organizations track and enhance their projects by offering services such as logic models, performance indicators, baseline studies, evaluations, reporting, data collection tools, and capacity building workshops.

Cultural Arts Consultancy

We offer services including Junior School Visual and Performing Arts syllabus interpretation, traditional dance training and workshops, and cultural musical instrument manufacturing and repair (Mbira, Marimba, Ngoma, Chipendani).

Cultural Arts Advocacy

Our advocacy focuses on preserving and innovating Cultural Heritage. We engage with stakeholders to enhance Culture Work and its community through research and documentation of Cultural Heritage and by promoting Cultural Arts as viable businesses.