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Overview of CHAD

The Centre for Health (CHAD) is a not-for-profit limited company incorporated in Malawi in accordance with the Companies Act, 2013. CHAD has over 8-years’ experience in research, consultancies and management of program funds and has a very good track record working with a multiplicity of agencies that include UNICEF, USAID, CIFF, SCI Foundation to mention but a few. CHAD’s expertise the following Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH); Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs); Cancer Research; Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), and Climate change.

CHAD has a very good working relationship with partners in including the Malawi Ministry of Health Reproductive Health Division (RHD), BLM, FHS/PSI, FPAM, CHAI, Nkhoma Mission Hospital, FHI360, Project Concern International, USAID/University of North Carolina, University of Edinburgh, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Task Force for Global Health, Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI), AIDS Fonds, Plan International Malawi, Malawi Blood Transfusion, PSI, BAOBAB Health Trust, Save the Children International, among others.

We are group of professionals having vivid experience and wide exposure in Research and Development forms CHAD. People involved here are both young and seasoned qualified experts in Public Health,

Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH); Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs); Cancer Research; Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), and Climate change with qualifications and experience from the renowned universities and institutions across the globe. 

The resource personnel working in the company have been consistently providing reliable support services and consultancy to a wide variety of corporate organizations and governments in the capacity of executive or as business partner or consultant. Bottom line of the company philosophy is providing a long-term partnership with its clients where interpersonal relationship, reliability, assured quality and target oriented services are the major building blocks. 

It is a company where professionals from both technical and functional field group together with an objective of providing appropriate business and clientele need solutions and services. It realizes the importance of functional knowledge and its impact in developing bottleneck solutions in a wide range of development challenges rocking Sub Saharan Africa. We constantly strive to be a leading Research and Development Consultancy firm with profound functional knowledge.  The key to the company's success is the maintenance of a close working relationship with the clients through ensuring the best possible solutions to their needs; to establish and maintain a thorough knowledge and understanding of client's objective and help them maximize the benefits and achieve their intended goals. 

We want to establish ourselves as the best choice in SRH, Family Planning Services, by offering the full spectrum of services.

Our History

Centre for Health & Development, Research and Consulting (CHAD) started as a partnership in 2016 and later was incorporated as a limited company in 2018, and it operates as a not-for-profit organisation. CHAD worked closely with the government of Malawi, especially the Ministry of Health (MoH), to carry out different studies, conduct consultancies for implementing agents in health, socioeconomic development, environment protection, and in disease control programs and manage donor funds by international organisation for different programs.

CHAD focuses exclusively on high quality, cost-effective and impactful research, development, and implementation in Public Health, Climate Change, and Economic Growth Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH). This is made possible with the involvement of skilled and experienced experts. CHAD has run projects in government, international NGOs & agencies, CSO, academia and partnered with international and local firms.

Our Vision
Our Vision
To become a well-recognized research and consulting Centre in Malawi and beyond in Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH), Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), climate change, and financial management for disease programmes.
Our Mission
Our Mission
Dedicated to improved public health and peoples' welfare through high-quality operational and implementational research, program management and consultancy
Our Goal
Our Goal
To contribute to evidence informed policy decision making.

Our Core Values

Excellence
Excellence

Our relentless pursuit of excellence is evident in our services. Our clients receive superior deliverable that meets or surpasses their expectations.

Teamwork
Teamwork

Teamwork is essential to achieving the goals both internally and with our clients. For our clients, this translates to on-time delivery and increased efficiencies for their products and services.

Quality
Quality

Our commitment to consistent quality products and services is seen through our focus on quality control and quality planning. Our clients can expect continuous innovation in our methods of delivering quality service to them.

Honest Communication
Honest Communication

Our golden standard of communication with our clients’ centers around the principle of open-ended questions; discussing problems; and critically sharing ideas that help them succeed. 

Integrity and Ethics
Integrity and Ethics

Doing the right thing by our clients and society is central to our corporate responsibility. Our clients can be assured of highest ethical standards and their confidential information to be maintained.

Ownership and Initiative
Ownership and Initiative

Leadership values and skills are built from the ground-up throughout our company. Our clients can expect that project priorities be aligned to maximize their firm’s vision and success.