About
About us
About Maarifa Research and Training Associates Limited
Maarifa Research and Training Associates Limited (MARTAL) stands as an eminent entity, a distinguished hub of knowledge, expertise, and consultancy. Our unwavering commitment lies in providing cutting-edge, state-of-the-art solutions to the diverse challenges organizations and society face. Founded in 2016 as Paul Freire Higher Education Institute Limited, with the approval of the Registrar, the name was changed on March 20, 2022, to Maarifa Training and Research Institute Limited, officially registered in Tanzania. Maarifa emerges as a beacon of innovation, striving to foster sustainable solutions and enhance competencies across the public, private, and non-profit sectors.
Mission
To promote and support evidence based advocacy and decision making by providing high quality research, consultancy and training services to individuals and institutions in Tanzania and beyond.
Vision
To be a beacon for research, training, and professional development services in Tanzania and beyond.
Programmes
Our Programmes
We focus on the following areas of service;

Research and consultancy services
- Surveys
- Evaluative Research
- Program Design and Implementation
- Digital Solutions for Social and Economic Impact
- Feasibility Studies
- Data mining and utilization to inform policy and practice include, among others, customer surveys, household surveys, student assessments, beneficiary assessments, evaluations, labour market data, tracer and employer data, and data on the political economy of reforms.

Training Services
Maarifa delivers quality, customized pieces of training that provide participants with practical skills to enable them to face day-to-day workplace challenges with confidence. We offer a wide variety of short training courses covering the following thematic areas.
- Organizational Effectiveness Training
- Project Management Training
- Personal Development Courses
- Research skills training:

Academic writing
Academic writing is at the core of higher education business but there is no formal training to acquire academic writing competencies in most higher education institutions. We provide tailor made academic writing courses to all academic cadres, junior, mid and senior academic staff and other professionals who seek to improve their professional writing and seek to be published. The academic writing courses that we offer include:
- Mastering the art and science of academic writing for publication
- Writing research proposals for non-academic purposes
- Authoring academic and research reports
- Writing quality quantitative and qualitative research proposals for academic purposes
Contact
Contact Us
Email Us
info@maarifa.or.tz
Call Us
+255 717 907 288
+255 756 263 596