Qualifications:

• Master of Arts in Economics – Candidate (University of Malawi, School of Law, Economics and Government – Pending Graduation in 2025)
• B.Sc. (Development Economics) (Grade A*) – (Lilongwe University of Agriculture & Natural Resources, Malawi), obtained in 2021.
• Malawi School Certificate of Education (Grade A**) – (Dedza Secondary School, Malawi), obtained in 2015
• Junior Certificate of Education (Grade A**) – (Dedza Secondary School, Malawi), obtained in 2013

Brief background:

Christopher Chombo is an enthusiastic, hardworking, determined and an exceptional individual with demonstrated competence, experience history and knowledge in Economics, poverty analysis, Education, social protection, child protection, resilience, institutional capacity development and policy analysis, and rural development. He attributes his vision, passion and desire to forge as a trained expert in the field of social protection Programs, Climate adaptation strategies, and resilience. His work focuses on contextualizing practical solutions towards the poor and vulnerable groups.

He is currently pursuing Master of Arts in Economics at University of Malawi. Further, he holds a Bachelor of Science with strong credit in Development Economics at Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR). He has training in many fields of economics which includes Econometrics, Statistics, analysis using R-Studio, Stata, Excel, SPSS, and other applied economics.

Currently, he is working as a researcher at Makoka and Associates –Research Development Policy Consulting Firm in Lilongwe, Malawi since 2021- Lilongwe. Additionally, he has over 5 years of experience in evaluation of development programmes, poverty analysis, social protection, child health research, child protection, disaster risk reduction, institutional capacity development and policy analysis, and rural development. Strong commitment and passion to make a difference to the world’s poor. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. A high-degree of personal integrity, dependable and reliable in supporting team effort to achieve institutional goals. Additionally, he has superior writing and oral presentation skills, self-initiative, ability to build winning teams and network globally, and the ability to write fund winning proposals. 

He further possesses vast knowledge and experience in conducting research including consultancies involving baseline, midline and end-line evaluations for the government, CSOs, NGOs and multi-lateral institutions. He has thus conducted numerous assignments for the WFP, World Bank, GIZ, CAMFED, Care Malawi, COMSIP, World Relief, Give Directly, CIP, Save the Children International and the Government of Malawi.

He also holds certificates in Grounding for Postgraduate Studies: Enhancing Research Skills by Stellenbosch University and University of Malawi, Time series forecasting in R-studio through CRAFS project at University of Malawi and Policy brief writing by Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources. He has more than 4 years’ experience in qualitative and quantitative research and reports writing skills, in addition to the mainstream social and economic research.

Additionally, he has superior writing and oral presentation skills, self-initiative, ability to build winning teams and network globally, and the ability to write fund winning proposals. Lastly, he is good at designing and programming individual, household and community questionnaires using Open Data Kit (ODK), Kobo Tool box, Survey solutions and Survey CTO and data analysis using R-Studio, Stata, Excel SPSS.

Research Focus:

The nexus between social protection programs on poverty reduction, food and nutrition security and households’ resilience; integration of social safety nets programs and climate adaptation strategies towards rural households in Malawi; Determinants of Economic growth and Development in agrarian economy in Malawi; Health and development, Education, inequality and poverty in Malawi; Impact of fiscal policies on poverty ;Gender differentials in agrarian economy; the relationship between migration and poverty in Malawi.