Our Approach
Evidence before answers.
We begin by understanding the context, the evidence and the real constraints before determining what the solution should be.
Multidisciplinary Consulting & Advisory Group
What’s your next strategic move?
Featured Work
Turning evidence into stronger systems for lasting impact
Healthier Communities Stronger Futures
Our People
Different expertise. One problem.
We bring together the disciplines an assignment actually requires, allowing clients to work with one coordinated team rather than multiple disconnected advisers.
Our Purpose
Stronger institutions. Lasting results.
Our work is designed to leave organisations with better systems, stronger capability and practical solutions they can continue to use long after an assignment ends.
Who We Are
Built for problems that cross boundaries.
Today’s organisational challenges rarely belong to one discipline. A health programme can involve financing, policy, technology, data, governance and implementation at the same time.
Mitambo & Co is a multidisciplinary consulting and advisory firm created for that reality. We work with governments, development partners, research institutions, businesses and other organisations across Africa, bringing together the technical expertise, strategic thinking and implementation experience required to solve complex problems in a practical way.
Discover Mitambo & CoHow We Help
Expertise organised around the problem, not the department.
Explore Our ServicesSome assignments require one specialist discipline. Others require several working together. Our model allows us to build the right combination of expertise around each client’s needs.
Health Consulting
Strengthening health systems, policy, research, regulation, surveillance, digital health and public-health programmes.
Research, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
Generating credible evidence, measuring performance and helping organisations turn data and learning into better decisions.
Financial & Business Advisory
Strengthening financial systems, governance, institutional performance, resource mobilisation and organisational sustainability.
Technology & Digital Transformation
Helping organisations improve the way they work through digital strategy, information systems, data, automation and technology-enabled decision-making.
Project Management & Technical Assistance
Supporting complex initiatives from planning and mobilisation through implementation, monitoring, evaluation and close-out.
Capacity Building & Executive Training
Building the leadership, technical skills and institutional capabilities required for organisations to perform more effectively and independently.
Where We Work
Experience across the systems that shape development.
Explore Our SectorsMitambo & Co works across sectors where strong institutions, better evidence and effective implementation can create meaningful and lasting change.
Selected Work
Our experience is best understood through the work.
View All WorkMitambo & Co’s teams have supported governments, international organisations, research institutions and development partners on assignments spanning policy, research, institutional strengthening, programme implementation and technical advisory.
Strengthening the foundations of Malawi’s health research system.
Mitambo & Co provided lead consulting support for the development and review of a comprehensive suite of national health research policy and strategic documents.
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Strengthening the national response to antimicrobial resistance
Technical and policy support across surveillance, antimicrobial stewardship, programme alignment, stakeholder coordination and national planning.
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Strengthening clinical research regulation across Africa
Support to regulatory and research ethics systems across Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Nigeria, Kenya and Rwanda through regulatory strengthening, benchmarking, harmonisation and capacity development.
View engagementHow We Work
From understanding the problem to making the solution work.
Explore Our Approach-
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Discover
Understand the client’s priorities, operating environment, stakeholders, challenges and opportunities.
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Analyse
Generate and examine the evidence needed to understand causes, options, risks and constraints.
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Design
Develop practical solutions shaped by feasibility, affordability, context and potential impact.
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Implement
Support clients in translating recommendations into action through technical assistance, systems development, training or programme support.
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Learn & Sustain
Measure progress, capture lessons, transfer knowledge and strengthen ownership so improvements continue.
Insights
Ideas shaped by the work.
Research. Perspective. Practical thinking — grounded in the issues our clients and institutions are actually working through.
What stronger research governance can change in national health systems
When evidence is governed well, it stops sitting in reports and starts shaping priorities, investment and implementation.
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Why digital transformation fails when institutions digitise before redesigning the process
Technology creates value only when it is connected to a clear institutional need, workable processes and the people expected to use it.
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Using evidence in policy is an institutional capability, not a reporting exercise
The question is not whether data exists. It is whether institutions can interpret it, own it and act on it with confidence.
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Capability should stay when the consultants leave
Assignments create lasting value when knowledge transfer and institutional ownership are designed in from the start.
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Advice should survive implementation
A recommendation has little value if it cannot work within the institution expected to carry it forward.
Read InsightHow We Think
Advice should survive implementation.
Our ApproachA recommendation has little value if it cannot work within the institution expected to implement it.
Evidence over assumption
Our advice is grounded in research, data, stakeholder insight and the realities of the client’s operating environment.
Context before templates
We apply international standards without losing sight of local institutions, priorities and constraints.
Implementation matters
Where required, we remain involved beyond the recommendation stage to help translate strategy into action.
Capability stays behind
Knowledge transfer and institutional strengthening are built into our assignments so progress does not end when the consultancy does.
What are you working through?
Whether you are developing a new strategy, strengthening an institution, evaluating a programme, designing a system or looking for specialist technical support, we would welcome the opportunity to understand the challenge.
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