PMDA is located in Mombasa, Kenya, and is an international Non- Governmental Organization dedicated to the preservation, management and promotion of cultural heritage in Africa through a programme of training and development support services. It was created in 2000 through an agreement between the National Museums of Kenya and ICCROM (The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property).
Since its inception, PMDA has become recognised for the quality and innovative character of its training and development support programmes and activities that it provides to professionals and institutions responsible for movable and immovable heritage in English speaking sub-Saharan Africa. PMDA works in close collaboration with these institutions and is supported in its programmes and activities by funding and technical partners throughout the world.
Over time PMDA's role has increased from a museum-focused mandate to include capacity building in all types of heritage, such as:
archives, cultural landscapes, historic cities, monuments and sites.
Considering the need to ensure that its name reflects its current mandate PMDA has officially changed its name and will now be known as the Centre for Heritage Development in Africa (CHDA, formerly PMDA).
CHDA's offices remain in Mombasa, Kenya at the historic Old Law Court building, next to Fort Jesus Museum.
For more information, please contact:
Mwadime Wazwa
Programme Manager
Mobile: +254-720-738860
mwadime@heritageinafrica.org
or
Mubiana Luhila
Programme Coordinator
Mobile: +254-733-720562
mluhila@heritageinafrica.org
Centre for Heritage Development in Africa (CHDA)
Old Law Court Building
P.O. Box 90010
Mombasa, KENYA
Tel: +254-41-225114/ 224846
Fax: + 254-41-227985
Dr Idle Farah
Chairman, CHDA
- on behalf of the CHDA Board
Important announcement: PMDA changes its name to CHDA 
