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Mission Statement
"To be a think tank for ideas and action oriented research institution of first choice to promote sustainable environment and natural resources management in Malawi and Southern Africa"
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Centre for Environmental Policy and Advocacy
Plot No.163, WICO Premises
Johnstone Road, Off Masauko Chipembere Highway
P.O. Box 1057
Blantyre, Malawi.
Tel: +(265) 1 914 554
Fax: +(265) 1 830 587E-mail: cepa@cepa.org.mw  

 

 

CEPA Staff Profile
 

CEPA core staff consists of environmental lawyers, economists and scientists. In addition to these CEPA utilizes a multi-disciplinary network of Research Fellows from academia and other NGOs; this enables us to effectively respond to the multifaceted nature of environmental problems.

William Chadza, Executive Director


William Chadza has several years of professional experience managing programmes in both national and international institutions. Over the years he has been successfully working in NGO programme management focusing in natural resources management, sustainable rural livelihoods, human capital development, policy reform and local government strengthening. He is a graduate from the University of Malawi, Bunda College of Agriculture.

 

Gracian Banda , Director of Legal Services


He is a lawyer specializing in environment and development law and policy. He has had a successful career in legal practice, university teaching, consultancy and research and as director and member of public companies and organizations in Malawi. He has a Master of Laws in International Economic Law and has since 1994 specialized in environmental law and policy, constitutional law, corporate law, land law and intellectual property law.

 

George Phiri (Dr), Biodiversity Specialist


George Phiri is a biological scientist specializing in policy analysis and institutional review for food security, biodiversity conservation and resilient livelihood, natural resources management, with special focus on critical issues in sustainable development and climate change vulnerability and adaptation, development and implementation of integrated management plans on invasive alien species and arthropod pests, and knowledge management.  He holds degrees of PhD (Interdisciplinary Ecology), MSc (Agricultural Biology), BSc (Agriculture) and Postgraduate Certificate in Natural Resources Management.  He is an active member of the Society of Conservation Biology, Ecological Society of America and the Pesticides Association Network (PAN-Africa).

 

Hendricks Phiri , Programme Officer

Hendricks is a development economist specialising in socio-economic policy analysis and development. He has several years working experience in championing collective economic governance through public policy analysis and advocacy particularly from the civil society window. He has, since 2004 been involved in implementation and management of donor funded projects. He has Master of Arts in Development Economics and Bachelor of Social Sciences Degrees.

 

Wydrine Sonjo, Programme Officer


 

Chisimphika Mphande, Assistant Programme Officer


Chisimphika holds a BSc Degree in Environmental Science and Technology from The Polytechnic – University of Malawi. She is the communications officer for CEPA. She also coordinates activities of the Civil Society Climate Change Network. Her other duties involve assisting programme staff in training, research, analysis and report preparation, development of CEPA’s publications, management of CEPA’s website and all IT tasks.

 

Mcdell Chingeni, Accountant


Mcdell holds a Diploma in Accounting with Association of Certified Chartered Accountant (ACCA) from the Malawi College of Accountancy and he is responsible for overall accounting functions of the institution. He prepares budgets, regular financial reports and facilitates auditing in accordance with the requirements of funding agencies. Mcdell also does general administration duties including support staff supervision.

 

Rumbidzai Mutetwa , Environmental Law Intern


 

 


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