Established in 2002, Health & Development Africa (Pty) Ltd is a South African registered company working to provide client-focused technical assistance and project management in the field of health and development.

We work across the Southern African Region, co-operating with governments, civil society organisations, the private sector and international development partners to support the planning and implementation of effective responses to HIV/AIDS and other health and development challenges.

Our Organisation

Our organisation is heavily weighted in favour of professionals and technical experts who are efficiently supported by a small finance and administration team. Our four directors, jointly responsible for managing the company, are all experienced public health consultants.

We have a well-qualified team, with rich experience and great diversity in terms of academic training, work exposure and personal background.

Collectively, the HDA team brings the following expertise to its clients:

• Knowledge of the fields of medicine, public health, epidemiology, health economics, management practice, sociology, research methodology, health promotion, community development, child protection and education.
• Skills in research, monitoring and evaluation, ranging from survey methodology to qualitative approaches.
• Skills, systems and approaches to source and manage high quality short-term technical assistance for HIV/AIDS work across Africa.
• Knowledge and experience in developing and supporting programme monitoring, including monitoring requirements of international donor agencies.
  
• Skills in facilitating client-centred, technically-informed policy development and planning at all levels.
  
• Extensive experience in participatory and child-centered research on abuse, exploitation and trafficking;
  
• Innovative approaches to costing of interventions in the field of HIV and AIDS;
  
• Accredited training on psychosocial wellbeing for community-based child protection workers and managers.
  
• Experience in developing the capacity of communities and local organisations to respond to the challenges of HIV/AIDS.
  
• Ability to integrate across the areas of research, planning, management and implementation.

BEE Rating

As a South African registered company, HDA supports Black Economic Empowerment (BEE). HDA is classified by the South African Government Department of Trade and Industry’s Codes of Good Practice on BEE as a Qualifying Small Enterprise (QSE). A QSE is defined by the Codes as a company with an annual total turnover of between R5 million and R35 million.

An independent BEE assessment done in November 2007, rated HDA as a Level 1 contributor to BEE, which is the highest (most desirable) level.