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Hlamalani Ngwenya |
Since 2001 Hlamalani (widely known as Hlami) has been actively involved in an innovative participatory extension approach (PEA) programme of the Limpopo Department of Agriculture, South Africa, in partnership with the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ). She performed as a facilitator at community level and as a trainer / facilitator of competence development process of frontline extension agents (within and outside the province) in participatory extension, as well as community development and providing mentoring and on-the-job coaching services for field staff.
She has also been involved as a facilitator, co-facilitator and in
process documentation of various international workshops
internationally in the domains of learning process approaches in
community development and local organisational development, change
process management and strategic planning, integrated natural resources
management (INRM), rural economic and enterprise development (REED),
team building and personal mastery.
Hlamalani started her career in 1992 as a high school teacher. In 1998
she was appointed as a lecturer at the College of Agriculture in
Limpopo Province in South Africa, lecturing rural extension and
coordinating community outreach initiatives undertaken with learners.
She holds a Master Degree in Consumer Science (specialising in Community Nutrition) with Potchefstroom University in South African, and currently working on her research (focusing on developing the facilitation competence of extension agents in participatory extension approaches and community development), which will be submitted in partial fulfilment of her PhD in Social Science with the Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
