https://www.localworksglobal.org/insights daily 0.75 2026-03-31 https://www.localworksglobal.org/insights/what-locally-led-development-requires-of-funders monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://www.localworksglobal.org/network-voices daily 0.75 2026-03-31 https://www.localworksglobal.org/network-voices/ownership-and-innovation-in-zimbabwe monthly 0.5 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697a8c0e5d222019feace203/1769710144486-MAZ6FAE59HQLMP7HGCIZ/1764715675449.jpeg Network Voices - Ownership and Innovation in Zimbabwe - My name is Biggie (Bigbouy) Chikwavarara, and I am a former Senior Advisor and Local Works Coordinator for USAID Zimbabwe. I grew up in rural Zimbabwe in a poor family, not so sure what education would bring. I would have gone straight to the army. My friends went. I lost some of them in the Second Congo War in the nineties. But a local headmaster saw the potential I had. He got me a scholarship that took me from the village into town. 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