Monicah M.

Monicah Motshegwe is a holder of Master of Social Science in Economics She possesses 20 years of professional experience spanning from banking and government sectors to regional and international organisations through domestic and donor funding development agencies. She has 14 years of relevant experience in the financial and technical management of donor funded programmes and projects (EU and DFID). Specifically, she has extensive experience on donor coordination and aid/fund management through bilateral and multilateral donor programmes AND had assignments with: National Authorising Office (Ministry of Finance and Development Planning – MFDP; EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) – SADC Secretariat; Botswana-EU Non-State Actors Capacity Building Programme (NSACBP); SADC Regional Vulnerability Assessment & Analysis (RVAA) Programme and currently Kenya-DFID Sustainable Urban Economic Development Programme. She is a well experienced expert with a long track record in technical assistance to programmes in the fields of programme and project planning, programming, budgeting, implementation, procurement management, capacity building, monitoring and evaluation processes. She has good knowledge of Domestic funded projects (Government of Botswana), UK Aid (DFID) and European Development Fund (EDF) procedures, the preparation and management of Programme Estimates and budgets and programme closure procedures (EDF 7 to 10) and DFID/SDC (through EDF11). She is also well acquainted with managing domestic projects and donor funded programmes/projects using the Government of Botswana and EU/DFID Project Cycle Management (PCM). Monicah has actively headed Programme Management /Programme Support Units under these EU and DFID funded programmes. As an economics graduate, Monicah has a prudent public and donor financial management expertise. The assurance she provides to managing workplans and budgets has led Monicah to become an astute manager and deputy team leader in recent roles. With extensive financial, procurement and programme management abilities coupled with her strong leadership skills make Monicah an ideal candidate to be part of management of any organizational structure.