Board of Trustees
Ecumenical Church Leaders Forum Board of Trustees
Bishop Danisa Ndlovu
Chair of the Board
Bishop Danisa Ndlovu
Chair of the Board
I have enthusiastically served in administrative positions for over 30 years. Honesty, respect, integrity, compassion and humility are some of the values that I embrace in my everyday life. I view myself as a good listener who is ready to help others find fulfilment in what they do to better their lives. In my communication, I prefer to be simple and clearly understood even in my use of humor from time to time. I have no challenges working under pressure and I am a good analytical person. I find joy in entertaining other people’s views, making it easier for me to work in a team. However, I am not afraid to make hard decisions when duty calls.
Mr Tinomovonga Mhaka
Treasurer
Mr Tinomovonga Mhaka
Treasurer
Tinomuvonga is a banker of 26 years having spent another 8 years in the education sector. He is a holder of a Master’s in Business Administration, a Bachelor of Commerce Hons degree, a Bachelor of Laws degree, a postgraduate degree in procedural law, a Diploma in Credit Management, and a Diploma in Education. He has vast experience in management, financial control, and analysis spanned over 26 years of banking experience in Retail, Credit, Business Development, and in Small to Medium Enterprises. He has been a board member of ECLF for the last ten years and is an active member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe.
Bishop Naison Shava
Board Member
Bishop Naison Shava
Board Member
Bishop Emeritus Naison Shava is a retired Bishop. He was a presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe, Dean, Pastor and Evangelist and a Treasurer of LUCSA for 2 Terms. Bishop Shava has held several positions in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe (ELCZ) which include an Administrative Secretary of ELCZ for 7 years, a director of the Non-Formal Education, Coordinator Micro Finance and a Regional trainer in Micro finance. Bishop Shava was President of the Zimbabwe Council Churches for 2 terms. He has vast experience and expertise in peace building and administration.
Mr Ephraim M. Dhlembeu
Board Member
Mr Ephraim M. Dhlembeu
Board Member
Ephraim has over 20 years work experience, mostly in the civil society organisations sector with short stints in parastatals and the public sector. He has a Masters (Economics) and BSc Honours (Economics and Agricultural Economics) and vast work experience in development and policy work at grassroots, national and international levels. This experience is underpinned by many years of managing, coordinating, providing technical services and consultancy on programs covering a wide range of themes covering livelihoods including micro-enterprise development, agriculture and food security, environmental conservation, education and health, water and sanitation with gender and women’s rights, youth and women empowerment, governance, peacebuilding, orphans and vulnerable children and HIV and AIDS as core or cross-cutting themes. He has developed expertise in strategic and business planning, program appraisals, baselines and feasibilities, partnerships and donor relations, monitoring and evaluation, institutional capacity assessment and building, and policy research and analysis. He is an active member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe
Mrs Gloria E. Mawere
Board member
Mrs Gloria E. Mawere
Board member
Gloria Mawere is a holder of a Master of Science in Information Systems Management (2013), Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Information Systems (2004) and an ISACA Silver member. She is currently an Information Systems lecturer at Great Zimbabwe University with over 8years university level teaching experience with special focus on Information Technology Governance, Enterprise Architecture, Simulation and Modelling, Management Information Systems and Computer Ethics and Professionalism. She is an author or co-author of more than 10papers published in international refereed journals with the above-mentioned areas of special focus being also her research interests. She has also had a short stint with parastatals serving in the I.T departments. A philanthropist - Lions International member who has a passion to serve. Gloria is an active member of the Roman Catholic Church.
Ms Shari Eppel
Board Member
Ms Shari Eppel
Board Member
Shari Eppel is a Zimbabwean who lives and works in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. A forensic anthropologist, she has been involved for more than twenty years with exhumation and reburial of those murdered in the 1980s in her region, by the post independent state. She a clinical psychologist by training, Shari has tracked the socio-cultural impact of exhumations and reburials on families and communities for more than two decades. In recent years, this has increasingly become work with the next generation of survivors, as transgenerational memory and trauma is now a reality.
Ms Thandekile Ngwenya
Board member
Ms Thandekile Ngwenya
Board member
Thandekile Ngwenya is a legal practitioner, registered with the Law Society of Zimbabwe. She has more than fifteen years of experience in developmental work, having worked with both local and international organizations in Zimbabwe. Thandekile has a passion for human rights work, particularly women and children’s rights. Relevant to the work of Ecumenical Church Leaders Forum, she has been directly involved in work on the protection of women against different forms of violence, specifically gender based violence, has contributed to advocacy for the Domestic Violence Act and she continues to raise awareness on the same. She has been involved in initiatives popularizing the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 with a focus on women’s participation and involvement in peace building. Thandkile brings to the board, experience in working with diverse organizations at various levels including involvement in advocacy for policy and law reform and is strong on issues of gender and gender mainstreaming.
Ms Elizabeth V. Dube
Board Member
Ms Elizabeth V. Dube
Board Member
Elizabeth is a banker with experience of over 20 years. She holds a Master’s in business administration, B Com Banking Honours degree from the National University of Science and Technology and a diploma in banking from the Institute of Bankers Zimbabwe. She has also sat on the Christian Care Board Matabeleland. She is a Counselor with main focus on mentoring and unlocking potential in the girl child and Counselling women in self-development, career guidance and sustenance. She has worked in her church on developmental projects as a chairperson for her parish. She is an active member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe.