Founded in 2004, Invest in Knowledge is one of Malawi’s leading research firms providing a broad range of services to universities, international and local organizations, foundations and government. Since our inception, our competitive advantage has been grounded in building research capacity among our Malawian staff and students to strengthen the quality services we provide our partners. Our team is composed of researchers with a long experience of qualitative and quantitative data collection and program evaluation in Malawi and other Sub-Saharan African countries. We are qualitative researchers, data collection coordinators, data managers, and biomarker data collection experts who are graduates of Malawi’s leading educational institutions.
Institutional Representative: James Mkandawire, Research Director
James is a Research Director for Invest in Knowledge (IKI) a non-profit organization based in Zomba, Malawi. The main aim of the organization is to identify and groom young people to become independent researchers. He has over 14 years of hands on research experience, managing data collection and coordinating teams on these projects. . His research experience has mainly been on HIV and AIDS but also has an interest on how election times affect delivery of public health services in low-income countries. He has worked with Invest in Knowledge for over 14 years rising from an enumerator, field supervisor, research manager and finally to the research director and as head of the institution. Looking at the nature of the work IKI does, he has worked with different political scientists as well which helped him to start looking at public health from a political angle. He is a holder of a masters degree in public health from the University of Malawi.
Founded in 2004, Invest in Knowledge is one of Malawi’s leading research firms providing a broad range of services to universities, international and local organizations, foundations and government. Since our inception, our competitive advantage has been grounded in building research capacity among our Malawian staff and students to strengthen the quality services we provide our partners. Our team is composed of researchers with a long experience of qualitative and quantitative data collection and program evaluation in Malawi and other Sub-Saharan African countries. We are qualitative researchers, data collection coordinators, data managers, and biomarker data collection experts who are graduates of…