The Institute of Research Management and Development (IRDM) is a private tertiary institution established in 2013 through the Companies Act of 2009 as a Management Consultancy and later registered with Swaziland Higher Education Council in 2017 (SH.04.17) as a Higher Learning Institute following the enactment of the Swaziland Higher Education Act of 2013. IRDM is also registered in South Sudan and South Africa as a consultancy Company.
IRDM focuses on offering a wide range of high-quality short courses, seminars, workshops, Certificates, diplomas and degrees aimed at equipping learners at all levels of the workforce with the hard and soft skills needed to improve key competencies essential for on-the-job performance improvement as well as management consultancy and research.