Who We Are

ESAMI is a Pan African Regional Management Development Centre owned by ten-member governments from the Eastern and Southern African region. These include Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is a service and market-oriented institution offering high-level specialized management training and development programme, consultancy and action-oriented management research services.

ESAMI’s target clients are government, regional and international institutions, NGOs, parastatals, private sector and national training institutions in the Eastern and Southern African region. ESAMI is a market leader in the industry in Sub-Saharan Africa.

In May 1997, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) officially designated ESAMI as ‘The African Centre of Excellence in Management Development”. With this recognition and enhanced mandate, fresh challenges were posed to the Institute. To meet Africa’s management challenge in the new millennium, ESAMI continues to provide high-quality, client-centered management training, consultancy, and research for clients from all over Africa.

Since it became ESAMI in 1980, its performance record in all three areas (training, consultancy, and research) has expanded to meet the needs of the institutions operating in the region. For example, to date, over 85,000 middle and top-level personnel in the government, parastatal, NGOs and private sector organizations have attended management development programs offered by the Institute.

In addition, these managers/executives have been provided with opportunities to widen their horizons, improve executive skills, and understand management as a process of balanced judgment. The aim has always been to keep African Managers up-to-date with modern management thinking and at the same time enable them to take stock and examine their managerial or administrative responsibilities in the context of today’s dynamic environment.