Eastern & Southern African Management Insitute (ESAMI)

The Eastern and Southern African Management Institute (ESAMI) is an intergovernmental regional management development centre. ESAMI’s head office is located in Arusha, Tanzania.

The institute was established with the primary objective of providing the region with trained personnel in a number of critical areas including policy management, transportation management, financial management, information technology management, health management, human resources management, project management, energy and environment management and gender management among others.

The focus was to train middle to senior managers from the region to improve their managerial performance taking into consideration the global issues but with a regional focus relevant to the African environment.

ESAMI’s Mandate, Mission, vision and Philosophy

The Eastern and Southern African Management Institute (ESAMI) is a Pan African Regional Management Development Centre owned by ten member governments from the Eastern and Southern African region. These are Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It is a service and market-oriented institution offering high level specialised management training, consultancy, education programmes and action- oriented managementt research services. Other countries which regularly participate in ESAMI management development programmes include Lesotho, Botswana, South Africa, Angola, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Eritrea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Ghana, The Gambia, Sudan, Ethiopia and Burkina Faso.

In May, 1997 the UN Economic Commission for Africa officially designated ESAMI as The African Centre of Excellence in Management Development. This recognition has necessitated ESAMI to extend its services to all countries in Africa. To meet Africa’s management challenge in the new millennium ESAMI continues to provide high quality, client centred management development interventions throughout Africa.

Mandate

ESAMI’s mandate is to improve the performance and management effectiveness of public, private, and international organizations in Africa. This will be done through:

* Management training and education;

* Management consultancy and advisory services;

* Management research, knowledge generation and publications; and

* Promotion of best practices in management.

Vision

By 2014, ESAMI is the preferred global centre for excellence in leadership, management training and advisory services.

Mission

To develop leadership and management competences of our clients to enable them achieve organizational results. We will excel in the delivery of management training and education, new knowledge generation networking and advisory services. Our universe of clients will be individuals, public, private and international organizations.