Our Core Team
Meet the dedicated professionals behind our success
Nyararai Magudu
Founder & Team Director
Nyararai Magudu is the Director of Nyararai Consulting Services (NCS) with over 20 years of experience in development, humanitarian work, gender equality, and human rights across Mozambique and Southern Africa. He provides strategic leadership for NCS, leveraging a nexus approach that integrates development, humanitarian, and peacebuilding initiatives. Nyararai oversees research, studies, evaluations, and capacity development initiatives that promote gender equality, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), social inclusion, and human rights. He has successfully led baseline studies for key projects such as AgroVida, Feed The Future Premier project, and Sustainable Livelihoods Development Projects focused on food and nutrition and market systems development, with funding from donors like the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and USAID. Nyararai is also the SRHR Ambassador for the South Africa Aids Foundation and is recognized as a gender expert, dedicated to delivering impactful solutions for sustainable international development. Based in Chimoio, Manica, Nyararai continues to lead efforts that drive positive and lasting change, improving outcomes for vulnerable groups, particularly adolescent girls and young women, including those with disabilities.
Domingos José Domingos
Senior MERL Consultant
Domingos José Domingos is a Senior MERL Consultant with over seven years of experience in monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning across GBV, child protection, humanitarian, and development programmes in Mozambique. He specialises in data systems design, digital data collection, Power BI dashboard development, and KoboToolbox XLSForm architecture. He holds a BSc in Information and Communication Technology from the Catholic University of Mozambique and is pursuing an MBA in Data Science and Analytics at USP/ESALQ, Brazil. He serves concurrently as MEAL Manager and MIS Focal Point at Girl Child Rights (GCR), a national Mozambican NGO.
Ganyani Khosa
Principal Consultant — M&E, ICT4D
Ganyani Khosa is our Principal Consultant responsible for two portfolios, the Information and Communication Technologies for Development portfolio as well as the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning portfolio. Ganyani brings onboard expertise, skills and over 20 years' experience in M&E, Knowledge Management and Whole of Government/Organization Approaches to managing for sustainable development results. In the past 5 years, Ganyani has been providing consultancy services in Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, the SADC and Asia where he has been developing e-Government applications; designing results-based MEAL Frameworks; conducting surveys for baseline, formative and summative evaluations; as well as in conducting data analysis and visualization for various surveys. Ganyani applies technologies for data collection, collation management, analysis, visualization and reporting and has implemented numerous ICT for Development interventions in SADC Member States including e-Government Application Development, M&E Application Development and development of electronic Executive Dashboards all hosted on common portals.
Damian Lilly
Principal Associate & Senior Consultant
Damian Lilly has more than 20 years' experience in the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding sectors working for United Nations agencies and NGOs in different countries. He most recently worked for UN OCHA in Chad and was previously Chief of the Protection Division for UNRWA and Senior Advisor on the Protection of Civilians for UNMISS in South Sudan. He is currently an independent consultant conducting evaluations, strategic reviews and policy research for a variety of different clients. He is linked to different research institutions including as a non-resident fellow of the International Peace Institute (IPI) and has published extensively on a range of different topics related to humanitarian affairs, development cooperation, human rights and peacekeeping. He is a British and Irish citizen, currently based in Maputo, Mozambique.
Joseph Goko
Consultant — Compliance
Joseph holds a Masters Degree in Rural and Urban Planning and a BSc in Agricultural Economics, both attained at the University of Zimbabwe. He has been in Project Management and Planning for the past 35 years and has joined the Consultancy sector since 2012. His areas of expertise include Project Planning and Management, implementing and monitoring high value projects and programmes funded by big Donors like the EU and USAID, value chains analysis, leading big teams, and report writing. His previous works include carrying out baseline surveys/studies, midterm and endline evaluations, facilitating development of Strategic Plans and Integrated Results Based Management approach and managing rural development projects and programmes. He has worked for organisations such as the Zimbabwe/EU Microproject Programme, Zimbabwe Farmers Union Project Trust, Plan International, Zimbabwe Christian Care and the Government of Zimbabwe. In consultancy, he has partnered with companies like CeDRE International Zimbabwe, GCR-RDH and NCS both in Mozambique.
Phillimon "Phil" Mlambo
Operations Consultant
Phil is a career youth development expert with experience spanning street youth rehabilitation, youth sexual and reproductive health education, and youth entrepreneurship and economic empowerment. Phil served in several INGOs at the highest level and among his many accomplishments, Phil served as Executive Director for Junior Achievement (JA) Zimbabwe seeing its growth over 16 years and served as COO for JA Africa for three years overseeing operational efficiency in the organisation's 18 country offices. His new passion is organizational development, operational efficiency, professional development, and Positive Youth Development. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Psychology from the University of Zimbabwe in 1996. In 2002 Phil graduated with a Commonwealth Diploma in Youth Development from Zimbabwe Open University. He was awarded the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Leadership Fellowship in 2003 and studied for a Master of Management in the field of Public and Development Management at the University of the Witwatersrand, graduating in 2004. In 2007 Phil was awarded the Coca-Cola Africa Foundation Leadership Fellowship and completed a Transformational Leadership Program at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Business School.