Our Story
Namvela in Nyanja means
‘we understand.’
We started up our boutique consulting firm, Namvela, because as implementers and researchers with over a decade's experience, we understand the complex challenges that organisations face in implementing health programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa.
We are a multidisciplinary team of specialists, who support organisations to develop, implement and evaluate sustainable solutions in health programmes, particularly those targeting under-served populations including adolescents, persons with disabilities, rural and low-income groups.
Our expertise includes sexual and reproductive health, HIV, mental health, infectious disease control, non-communicable diseases and behavioural change communication. Our team has provided support to programmes across Sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, Australia and Europe.
We use quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate programmes and unanswered questions in public health. We have conducted a range of formative research projects, impact and process evaluations, with our findings published in peer-reviewed journals.
We conduct market landscaping and fundraising needs assessments to design market positioning, organisational and business development strategies, winning millions of dollars for our clients.
What We Do
We take a highly collaborative approach to co-design projects with clients, using scientific methodologies and a multidisciplinary team of specialists.
We support clients to develop tailored, patient-facing and corporate communications strategies. We conduct audience research, provide content collection, design social and behaviour change strategies, and communications evaluation services.
We build internal capacity within our clients’ teams in order to leave a sustained footprint of impactful and evidence-based programmes. We provide 1:1 mentorship, alongside training workshops in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning best-practice, safeguarding, human subject protection and consent practices, gender and values clarification training.
