About Us
Wadonda Consult (WACO) is a partnership of consultants in economic and
social research. WACO is an independent consulting firm established in
1996 and is registered under the Business Names Registration Act.
We provide consultancy services to government departments, international
organizations, non-governmental organizations and the private sector.
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Mission Statement
Our mission is to offer excellent consultancy services and to conduct
high quality research in supporting the economic and social development
in Malawi and the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
within an international context.
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Corporate Objectives
The overall corporate objectives are to conduct economic and social
research and offer consultancy services with the aim of informing
decision-makers in public and private institutions in order to improve
the efficiency and effectiveness of their programmes or activities.
Specific objectives include to:
- Initiate and generate ideas for economic and social research, both
academic and policy-oriented research, which will attract funding from
international and local organisations.
- Conduct training in form of short courses, in economic management
and economic policies, project management, social policy and research
methods.
- Offer consultancy services in the following areas of competence:
sector analyses; economic management and policy analyses; food security
and nutrition programmes; socioeconomic studies; evaluation of economic
and social programmes, and any other areas.
- Conduct research in productivity analysis and provide consultancy
services on the most efficient use of scarce resources in the public
and private sectors.
- Link Malawian researchers and fully utilize their expertise by
subcontracting and organising them in teams for specialized research
or consultancy activities.
- Disseminate research results to decision/policy makers through
publications, conferences, workshops and seminars.
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Research Activities and Competence
Our research and consultancy services are in the following areas:
- Food Security and Nutrition
Needs Assessment, Design and Evaluation of Food Security and Nutrition Projects, Socio-economic Impact of Food Security and Nutrition Interventions, Food Marketing Liberalization.
- Industrial and Trade Policies and Labour Markets
Strategic Competition Policy, Privatization of State Enterprises, Export Processing Zones, Structural Adjustment Programs and Trade Performance, Exchange Rate Policies, Regional Economic Integration, Industrial Relations and Trade Unions, Reforms in Labour Markets.
- Fiscal and Monetary Policies and Financial Development
Fiscal Budget Analysis, Fiscal and Monetary Policy Analyses, Competition in the Financial Sector, Regulation and Supervision of Financial Institutions, Capital Market Studies.
- Social Programmes and Institutional Development
Poverty Analyses, Evaluation of Poverty-Oriented Interventions, Structure and Performance of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises, Development of Rural Financial Intermediaries, Agricultural Development and the Environment, Social Problems and Environmental Studies.
- Governance and Business Administration
Government Restructuring and Decentralization, Economic Management, Efficiency and Development of Organisations, Productivity and Efficiency Analysis at household, departmental and firm levels, Institutional Performance Assessment.
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Principal Consultants
Ephraim Wadonda Chirwa
BSoc.Sc (Econ), MPhil (Econ), Ph.D (Econ)
Consultant in Economic Studies
- Ephraim Chirwa is also Senior Lecturer in Economics in the Department
of Economics at Chancellor College, University of Malawi.
- Prior to joining the University of Malawi he worked as an economist
at the Reserve Bank of Malawi and as an Information and Research Manager
at the Malawi Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
- He has wide experience in research and consultancy activities at local
and international level. His primary research interests are in industrial
economics, competition policy, productivity analysis, privatization,
financial and capital markets, rural financial institutions and poverty
analysis.
- He has researched and done consultancies in industrial and competition
policy in Malawi, structural adjustment programmes and the poor, food
security and nutrition interventions, food marketing liberalization,
development of rural financial institutions, financial sector reforms,
privatization of state-owned enterprises and technical efficiency in
Malawian agriculture. Some of his works have been published in journals
and as book chapters, and has presented papers at
several conferences in Malawi and abroad.
- He holds a Ph.D in Economics from the University of East Anglia
in England.
- For more information: Ephraim
Chirwa's Main Home Page
Peter Mathias Mvula
BSoc.Sc, MPA, Ph.D
Consultant in Social Studies
- Peter Mvula is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research,
University of Malawi.
- His primary research interests are in food security and nutrition,
social sector programmes, poverty analysis, gender analysis, rural financial
institutions, social research methodologies and techniques
including participatory rural appraisal.
- He has vast experience in social research and has participated in
several projects at the Centre for Social Research and has researched
privately in food security and nutrition, poverty and rural
credit facilities.
- For more information e-mail
[email protected]
Evious Kingswell Zgovu
BSoc.Sc (Econ), MA (Econ), Ph.D
Consultant in Economic Studies
- Evious Zgovu is also a Lecturer in Economics in the Department of
Economics at Chancellor College, University of Malawi.
- Prior to joining the University of Malawi he served as an economist
in the Ministry of Labour.
- His primary research interests are in trade policies, regional
integration, social sector programmes, policy analysis, food security
and nutrition, poverty and rural financial institutions. He has researched
and done consultancies in regional economic integration, labour markets, food
security and nutrition, poverty and rural credit programmes and social sector
programmes.
- For more information e-mail
[email protected]
Lucy Horea (Mrs)
BSoc.Sc (Sociology), MA (Development Studies)
Consultant in Social Studies and Gender Issues
- For more information e-mail
[email protected]
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Working Papers
PDF files marked with Acrobat 2.1 can best be
viewed using Acrobat Reader 2.1 to view all symbols in equations and tables.
| Number/Year | Author(s) | Title of Paper |
| 2001 | ||
| WC/04/01 | Ephraim W. Chirwa | Food Pricing Reforms
and Price Transmission in Malawi: Implications for Food Policy
and Food Security (February) [
PDF File]  |
| WC/03/01 | Ephraim W. Chirwa and Evious K. Zgovu | Does the Return to Schooling Depend on the Type of Employment?
Evidence from the Rural Labour Market in Malawi (February)
[
PDF File] |
| WC/02/01 | Ephraim W. Chirwa | Industry and Firm
Effects of Privatization in Malawian Oligopolistic Manufacturing
(February)[ PDF File ]
|
| WC/01/01 | Ephraim W. Chirwa, Evious K. Zgovu and Peter M. Mvula | Participation and Impact of
Poverty-Oriented Public Works Projects in Rural
Malawi (January) [ PDF File]
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| 2000 | ||
| WC/03/00 | Ephraim W. Chirwa | Privatization and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from Malawi Manufacturing (November) [ PDF File] |
| WC/02/00 | Ephraim W. Chirwa | The Promise of Privatization: Financial and Operating Efficiency in Malawi Manufacturing (October) [ PDF File] |
| WC/01/00 | Ephraim W. Chirwa | Average Earnings and Minimum Wages in Malawi: Cointegration and Causality (January) [ PDF File] |
| 1999 | ||
| WC/08/99 | Ephraim W. Chirwa | Determinants of Commercial Banks'Profitability in Malawi: A Cointegration Approach (July) [ PDF File] |
| WC/07/99 | Ephraim W. Chirwa James Milner | Impact of Household Food Security and Nutrition Intervention Programmes in Malawi (July) [ PDF File] |
| WC/06/99 | Ephraim W. Chirwa | Structural Adjustment Programs and the Labour Market in Malawi (June) [ PDF File] |
| WC/05/99 | Ephraim W. Chirwa | Food Marketing Reforms and Integration of Maize and Rice Markets in Malawi (February) [ PDF File (Acrobat 2.1)] |
| WC/04/99 | Ephraim W. Chirwa | Mixed Enterprises, Soft Budget Constraints and Privatization in Oligopolistic Industries (February) [ PDF File] |
| WC/03/99 | Ephraim W. Chirwa | Financial Sector Reforms in Malawi: Are Days of Financial Repression' Gone? ( April) [Published in Savings and Development, 1999, 23(3): 327-351] |
| WC/02/99 | Ephraim W. Chirwa, Peter M. Mvula, Lucy Namata, Evious K. Zgovu | Capacity Constraints, Management and Effectiveness of Poverty-Oriented Microfinance Institutions in Malawi (January) [Published in African Review of Money Finance and Banking, 1999: 21-47] |
| WC/01/99 | Ephraim W. Chirwa | Structural Adjustment Programs and Efficiency in the Malawian Manufacturing Sector (January)[Published in African Development Review, 2000, 12(1): 98-113] |
| 1998 | ||
| WC/06/98 | Ephraim W. Chirwa | Market Structure and Performance of Commercial Banks in the Malawian Banking Industry (November) [Published in African Journal of Economic Policy, 1997, 4(2)] |
| WC/05/98 | Ephraim W. Chirwa | Technical Efficiency in Manufacturing Industries in Malawi using Deterministic Production Frontier (September) [ PDF File] |
| WC/04/98 | Ephraim W. Chirwa Welbon M.K. Mwafongo | Stochastic Production Functions and Technical Efficiency of Farmers in Southern Malawi (September) [ PDF File] |
| WC/03/98 | Ephraim W. Chirwa | Management and Delivery of Financial Services for the Poor: Lessons from FINCA's Village Bank Approach in Southern Malawi (August) [Published in Savings and Development, 1999, 23(1)] |
| WC/02/98 | Ephraim W. Chirwa | Market Structure and the Export Performance of Manufacturing Industries in Malawi (April) [ PDF File] |
| WC/01/98 | Ephraim W. Chirwa | The Development of Rural Finance Institutions for the Poor: The Case of Malawi Mudzi Fund (January) [ PDF File] |
| 1997 | ||
| WC/02/97 | Ephraim W. Chirwa | Fostering Private Food Marketing and Food Policies After Liberalisation: The Case of Malawi (August) |
| WC/01/97 | Ephraim W. Chirwa | State Divestiture and Private Sector Development in Malawi: Lessons from Admarc's Divestiture Programme (June) |
| 1996 | ||
| WC/02/96 | Ephraim W. Chirwa | Separation of Ownership from Control: Empirical Evidence from the Malawian Manufacturing Industry (October) |
| WC/02/96 | Ephraim W. Chirwa | An Econometric Analysis of the Determinants of Agricultural Credit Repayment in Malawi (March) [Published in African Review of Money, Finance and Banking, 1997 (1-2)] |
| WC/01/96 | Ephraim W. Chirwa | The Behaviour of Stock Prices at Nairobi Stock Exchange(January) |
For more information and comments on working papers e-mail to
echirwa
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Consultancy Reports
| Authors | Commisioning (funding) Agency | Title of Study/Report |
| 2000 | ||
| Mvula, P. M., Zgovu, E. K., Chirwa, E. W., Kadzamira, E. | Malawi Social Action Fund (funded by The World Bank) | Third Beneficiary
Assessment of the Public Works Programme (PWP) |
| Zgovu, E. K | National Economic Council and REPC (funded by USAID) | The Dynamics of the Rural Labour Market in Malawi |
| Mvula, P. M. Chirwa, E. W Kadzamira, E | Ministry of Health and Population (funded by The World Bank) | Evaluation of the Women in Development (WID) Component under the Population, Health and Nutrition (PHN) Program in Malawi |
| 1998 | ||
| Zgovu, E.K Mvula, P. M | Malawi Social Action Fund (funded by The World Bank) | MASAF Safety Net Baseline Study |
| Zgovu, E.K. Mvula, P. M. Kunkwezu, E. Potani, M. | Malawi Social Action Fund (funded by The World Bank) | A Review and Evaluation of the Malawi Social Action Fund (MASAF) Safety Net Programme |
| 1997 | ||
| Chirwa, E. W Milner, J. A | National Economic Council, Food Security and Nutrition Unit | Evaluation of Food Security and Nutrition Intervention Projects in Malawi |
| Zgovu, E. | National Economic Council, Food Security and Nutrition Unit | Nutritional Needs Assessment Study in Malawi |
| 1996 | ||
| Chirwa, E. Mvula, P. Namata, L. Zgovu, E. | Malawi Government - Ministry of Economic Planning and Development (funded by ODA - UK) | Review of Credit Operations under Social Dimensions of Adjustment (SDA) Project and other Programmes |
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Useful Links
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Contact Address
Wadonda Consult
Room 309/317 MPC Building
P.O. Box 669
Zomba
Malawi
Tel/Fax: (265) 0 1527 399
Tel: (265) 0 1527 736
Cell: (265) 08 839 296 (Ephraim Chirwa)
Cell: (265) 08 827 933 (Peter Mvula)
Email: [email protected]
Contact Persons:
| Peter M. Mvula | [email protected] |
| Ephraim W. Chirwa | [email protected] |
| Evious K. Zgovu | [email protected] |
| Lucy Horea (Mrs) | [email protected] |
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