Phumudzo Mufamadi

Ms Phumudzo Mufamadi is the Programme Manager: Research and Publications, with extensive experience working across Africa, Europe, and Asia in international development, stakeholder engagement, research, and project coordination involving governments, international organisations, businesses and civil society. She holds a Master’s degree in Development Economics from the Centre for Studies and Research on International Development (CERDI) at the University of Clermont Auvergne in France, where she specialised in global health financing for development with a particular focus on Africa. She also holds undergraduate and honours degrees in International Relations from the University of Pretoria in South Africa, and has completed several professional short courses in leadership, fundraising, conflict resolution, negotiation, and mediation.

Her professional experience includes work with the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, where she worked in the Department of Coordinated Resource Mobilization within the Director-General’s Office, which was responsible for WHO’s corporate resource mobilisation. In this role, she contributed to analysing current and potential funding for WHO, while also exploring the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and identifying key health priorities relevant to development financing, particularly within the context of developing countries. She has also worked with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Africa as a programme associate, where her responsibilities included CAADP programme coordination and budgeting activities, policy analysis, and supporting coordination between the Regional Office for Africa, the Pretoria Country Office, and NEPAD. Through the Research Programme on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development at Humboldt University in Germany, Berlin; she contributed to research and publications on religious actors and ecological sustainability in Southern Africa. She has also worked with the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Belgium and with non-governmental organisations in India, further strengthening her international development and research experience across diverse global contexts.

She has worked on major academic and institutional publishing projects, including African Philanthropy: Philanthropic Responses to COVID-19 and Development Goals in Africa book. She has collaborated with leading international academic publishers, including Edward Elgar Publishing, Springer Nature, and Palgrave Macmillan, where she managed and coordinated book and research publication projects.  Among other initiatives, she is currently managing two major book projects at CAPSI focused on Muslim philanthropy in Africa and Christian philanthropy in Africa, contributing to advancing African knowledge production and scholarship on philanthropy, religion, and development. Her research interests include global health, faith-based philanthropy, ecological sustainability, and international development.