Research Projects
Applied social science research tackling Malawi's most pressing development challenges.
Since 1979, the CSR has produced over 500 research and consultancy reports focused on poverty and sustainable livelihoods, public health, democracy and governance, and gender, youth, and disability. It has built strong partnerships with government, NGOs, the private sector, development partners, and international research institutions, while generating extensive research data, more than 25 peer-reviewed journal articles, and book chapters.
An exploration of barriers and attitudes towards sexuality and reproductive health education in primary schools in Malawi: A pilot study - Dr Chimtsanya
The aim of this pilot study was to explore teachers' parents' and pupils' attitudes and barriers to sexuality eduction and reproductive health.
Impact of Social Cash Transfer on beneficiary vulnerabilities through the lifecycle (UNICEF OR)
The impact of Social Cash Transfer on Beneficiaries' Vulnerabilities throughout the life cycle
The purpose of this study was to conduct an analysis and generate policy options to improve the impact of Social Cash Transfer on the new priorities set in the...
Lilongwe Water Board - Customer Satisfaction Survey
Lilongwe Water Board sought to engage a recognised and established research institution to conduct a Customer Satisfaction Survey in order to establish the Boar...
Harmful traditional practices
Imagine Project
This project aimed at building a comprehensive understanding of current 'informal' mhealth practices in the participating countries to inform health policy and...
Innovating Health in Africa through Grassroots Initiatives and Networks (IMAGINE)
This was part of a multi-national Medical Research Council (MRC) funded project on “Building an evidence base to support and enhance community health workers (C...
Promoting sexual health and accessible HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services for women prisoners
The Geography of Vulnerability and Health Service Access in Southern Africa(GeoHealthAccess)-Munthali
The Centre for Social Research in conjuction with SINTEF conducted the study called the Geography of vulnerability and health service access in Malawi. The main...
Portion Size Estimation Study
The task was to Develop and validate pictorial methods for food Portion Size Estimation in Malawi
Evaluation of the atlas alliances inclusive education and advocacy for people with disability
The purpose of the real-time evaluation is to gain better insight across the Atlas Alliance in key aspects of the work of the organizations and relevant partner...
Performance Evaluation of the USAID/Malawi Empowering girls through Education and Health Activity (ASPIRE)
The performance evaluation of the project was to establish ASPIRE's progress against it's objectives, propose adaptation and remedial measures for ASPIRE's impl...
Productive diversification in African Agriculture and effects on resilience and nutrition
The proposed study is a of a larger multi-partner assessment commissioned by the World Bank with the aim to assess the advantages and disadvantages of agricultu...
Impact Evaluation of the Malawi ONSE Project
Measure Evaluation conducted an impact evaluation of the USAID-funded Organised Network of Services for Everyone's Health (ONSE) Project. Onse was conducted in...
Afrobarometer Survey Round 7
Round 7 of Afrobarometer Survey in Malawi of a nationally representative sample of the adult population of Malawi with the purpose of producing a data set and p...
Situation analysis of women and children in Malawi
The research partnership seeks to determine appropriate strategies to increase resilience in Malawian context, especially through interventions aimed at improvi...
Papaya-Equity and Institutions in Sustainable African Intensification
This was a research project funded by DFID through Wyg and Greenwich University AND IMPLEMENTED BY THE Department of Human Geography at Lund University in coope...
Drivers of Food choices in the Context of Overweight among Women and Children in Malawi
The project aimed at gaining a deep understanding of the drivers of food choice among the poor in the South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa
Climate Change Resilience and Population Dynamics in Upper Shire, Malawi
PaMawa Ndi a Chinyamata (Youths as agents of change or PaMawa) was a project which was a qualitative study whose objective was to explore the relationship of cl...
MSCT on Child Labour-Qualitative Study
The objective of the project was to collect qualitative data on the basis of which the three outlined research topics belowe can be examined which are 1. The fa...
Living conditions among people with disabilities
SINTEF subcontracted University of Malawi to implement a national study on living on living conditions among persons with disabilities in Malawi. The study star...
Process Evaluation of the Malawi Social Cash Transfer_Air
This study was conducted in 5 districts and it included interviewing MSCTP stakeholders at district, area and community levels in order to get experience and vi...
Food security programming baseline survey in malawi - Munthali
The overall purpose of the baseline study is to first, provide a baseline for impact and outcome indicators to serve as a point of comparison for the final eval...
Evaluation of cash transfer of e-payment system Save the children
The E-payment project is being piloted in Mchinji and Machinga districts for a period of three years (2012 to 2014) to the tune of Euro 3.3 million. The pilot t...