Joyous Sikalima

Micro-finance Programs Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (M&E)Mr. Sikalima has 11 years of experience in accounting and community mobilization. He joined CHAZ as Income Generating Activities (IGA) Officer in 2012 during this period he was involved in training and mentoring of communities in entrepreneurship. Later in 2014 he became Microfinance Programs Officer. Mr Sikalima was trained by CHAZ in Community Managed Microfinance, Business and Credit management, Business Implementation and Pastel usage. Mr. Sikalima was also trained by Carsey School of Public Policy under the Sustainable Microenterprise Development Program (SMDP) in Arusha Tanzania in Saving Groups Management, Monitoring and Evaluation.Over the past 10 years, Mr. Sikalima has gained vast experience in Monitoring and Evaluation of Saving Groups implementing Community Managed Microfinance (Village Banking), Income Genenrating Activities  and also in managing Rural Finance Program (RFP) Data base. Mr. Sikalima has also gained vast experience in data collection, Net worth, Fund portfolios analysis and Program evaluations.