About

 

Our Vision

A one—stop international hub of community development—focused social research and allied services

Our Mission


To generate and deliver valid and reliable research evidence for relevant, effective, efficient, transforming and sustainable community development programs and policies worldwide

 

Our Objectives


i) To carry out social research for use as evidence to inform social policies and strategies for community development programs.
ii) To publish and disseminate research findings in multiple formats and languages for diverse audiences.
iii) To repackage research—based community development knowledge into diverse audio and visual media formats for non—technical stake—holding users.
iv) To facilitate pre and post—research processes for organisational and community development.
v) To deliver training in wide ranging research and allied skills, targeting young aspirants and staff of organisations that may place a demand for such services.

PREDICT: Our Seven Core Values

PREDICT is the acronym that depicts our seven core values:
i) Partnership: Where others see customers and profit, we see partners and shared legacies!
ii) Reliability: Hire us again and again; enjoy better results each time!
iii) Excellence: Our endeavor to leave a mark wherever we work makes excellence an insistence and mediocrity an offense!
iv) Diligence: Our rigid inclination is to work very hard, yet in the smartest way!
v) Integrity: If not for the trust and respect of our partners, we simply would not have started operating!

vi) Creativity: What distinguishes us is originality, breaching the confines of textbook conventionality!

vii) Truthfulness: We tell it as we found it; our partners do it as rightly guided!

Our Expert Services

As per our five objectives, we deliver services that fall into five classes as follows:

As per our five objectives, we deliver services that fall into five classes as follows:

1) Social and evaluative research, including but not limited to baseline studies, program evaluations, operations research, academic research, market research, situational assessment, desk reviews, etc.
2) Research—informed book and paper publish-ing and information dissemination — this involves writing research papers and books on topical community development matters for wider sharing through conferences, symposia, workshops, etc.

3) Documentation — we understand that research is for the consumption of every community member, yet not all are conversant with social sci-ence rhetoric. We therefore repackage complex research facts into simpler formats for lay people, e.g., video documentaries, summaries in local languages, etc.

Our Expert Services

4) Pre and post-research process facilitation - in order to translate research knowledge into action we facilitate such follow-up processes as strategic planning, program design, proposal writing, resource mobilization, M&E framework development sessions.
5) Training - we are generous with our tech-nical skills to train aspirants for a reasonable fee.

Call To Action

“As much as VALIData Research is a profit—oriented private corporate, we value partnership more than all”.

For every research assignment we deploy the best of our well—drilled team of technical staff, lead and associate consult-ants extracted from a rich data-base of global professionals that we developed over decades from 2000 to date, and apply the richest mix of our widest range of research methods that suit each set of our terms of reference.
TRY US TODAY and join the trail of our happy clients before calling us again!

Call To Action

Our Team

Triangulating all the way | Informing sound decisions

Shamie McKay

Chief Executive Officer

Olivia Opere

Country Representative - Kenya

Dr Lydia Hangula

Country Representative - Kenya

Olipa Banda

Projects Manager- Zambia

Lucky Nyasulu

Country Representative- Malawi