About Us

About

We provide our clients with guidance for policy and governance reforms in fisheries and aquaculture, in order to realise the wealth-generation potential of aquatic resources Aquatic foods, including fish provide significant benefits to millions of Africans; and these benefits include food and nutrition security, livelihoods, ecosystems and cultural services, as well as revenues realised from trade. Fish is one of the most nutritious foods; fish and fishery products are some of the most profitable agri-food commodities in Africans’ local, domestic, regional and international, formal and informal trade.

However, these benefits are now severely threatened by ineffective governance of the fisheries sector, resulting in unsustainable fish production, because these resources are being over-exploited beyond economic and biologically sustainable limits. The result is negative net contribution of aquatic resources to the economies of the continent. Tayali Analytics, we assist our clients to achieve the transition from unsustainable fish resource and Blue Economy sectors, to those that lead to sustained and balanced agri-food systems and economic growth.

We believe that governance and institutional reforms are necessary to ensure that communities, countries and regional organisations are capable of managing the sectors, capture the wealth and channel it into community wellbeing as well as development of their economies.

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We have a team of very competent individuals, who are ready to work hand in hand with you.

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Dr. Sloans Chimatiro Manager Director

Dr. Sloans Chimatiro is a fisheries policy analyst. He holds a PhD in fisheries science from Rhodes University in South Africa; and MSc and BSc from the University of Malawi. He has more than 30 years’ experience of research in fisheries and aquaculture, ... as well as fisheries administration and policy reform. Dr. Chimatiro worked as the Director of Fisheries in Malawi up to 2006; and recently, as the first Executive Director of MwAPATA Institute (Malawi). While working as Director of Fisheries, he helped formulate the NEPAD Fisheries and Aquaculture Action Plan in 2005 that was endorsed by African Union Heads of State and Governments during the Abuja Summit in August 2005. Between 2006 and September 2014, he was the Head of Fisheries at NEPAD Agency (now AU-AUDA NEPAD), where he led the development of the African Union Policy Framework & Reform Strategy for Fisheries & Aquaculture (or the Common AU Fisheries Policy); assisted African countries, Regional Economic Communities and Regional Fisheries Bodies to design and implement fisheries policy and governance reform aligned with CAADP. In 2010 he led the first Conference of African Ministers of Fisheries and Aquaculture (CAMFA). Between 2014 and 2019, he worked at the WorldFish (CG Centre). At the global level, Sloans has championed the establishment of the “African Voice on Fisheries”, to assist African countries to use policy research evidence to negotiate various UN Fisheries Agreements. He is currently the President of the Policy Research Network for Fisheries & Aquaculture (an African Union Policy Body); and working as a private consultant.

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Mrs Linda Chimatiro Administrative Director

Mrs Chimatiro has worked with GIZ and the Malawi government in administrative work.

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Juliana Mangani
Research Assistant

Juliana holds a Bachelors in Public health from Skyway University in Lilongwe, and registered with Medical council of Malawi as a Public Health Officer. Juliana has worked as a Research Assistant with Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation – Malawi before joining Tayali Analytics. She is a self-starter, innovative and flexible mind with a passion for learning and an interest in taking up new challenges in life. She has 5 years’ experience in research

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Tayamika K. Chimatiro
IT Manager

Tayamika has 8 years of programming, networking and general IT work, from Zambia, South Africa, Uganda and Malawi. He is a keen tech head and is currently a member of the Innovative Fish Farmers Network Trust (IFFNT) and is an active farmer and fish farmer.

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