MARSHAL MADISE PROFILE

Marshal Kandodo Madise is a holder of a BA (Media for Development) degree obtained from the University of Malawi and currently works as a Governance Officer at Blantyre Synod Church and Society Programme.

He has got an excellent command of both oral and written communication skills and he also has got a vast knowledge and experience of the Participatory Rural Communication Appraisal (PRCA), which is the new communication research method that utilizes field-based utilization techniques, interviews and group work to generate information for the design of effective communication programmes, materials, media and methods for development. The development courses that Marshal did in this rigorous course of study, gives him a good grasp of development issues such as poverty and inequality, gender, governance and human rights, climate change, HIV/AIDS to mention but a few.

Marshal boasts to have written many development articles that have been published in the country’s leading newspapers. He also does research on various topics and in 2006 and 2011 he worked as a research assistant at Northern Region Water Board in Mzuzu and Pakachere Institute of Health and Development Communication in Blantyre respectively. Currently, He is working with blantyre Synod Health and Development Commission as a Governance Officer under the Church and Society Programme. Marshal also worked on a research paper on how the media in Malawi has helped rural Malawians in understanding climate change issues.

Marshal Madise, 24, hails from Mzimba district, T/A Mtwalo, Madise Village in the northern part of Malawi. He underwent primary school education at various schools in Lilongwe, Dedza, Salima, Mzimba and Mzuzu. He was then selected to go to Katoto Secondary School in Mzuzu where he was later selected to go to the University of Malawi in 2006. Marshal has also attended several workshops and meetings concerning governance, gender, and Hiv/Aids. Marshal also loves working with people, especially rural people and he seems to have an ability to motivate them. He has worked on several projects with villagers in Many districts in Malawi. It is also interesting to note that Marshal is a fluent Tumbuka and Chewa speaker.

Currently Marshal is unmarried and in his leisure time, Marshal loves writing, reading, watching movies and football, listening to music, chatting with friends and he also enjoys traveling and sight seeing. His career objective is that he should be a development communication expert so that he contributes positively to the development of his country, which he loves so much.

CONTACTS
Marshal Kandodo Madise

E-mail: madise07@yahoo.com/marshalmadise@gmail.com
Cell: +265995361882