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.
Concert- ST John's Hopkins
This project was sponsored by the united states Agency for International Development (USAID).The main objective of the survey was to collect baseline data on pe...
Situation analysis of children with disabilities
The main purpose of this study was to gather a detailed understanding of the existing policies and legislation, programming and services, and needs and challeng...
Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS)
The ministry of Health in collaboration with USAID's Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector(SHOPS) initiative was conducting a mapping of all...
Situation Analysis of children with disabities
The Department of Disability and UNICEF wanted to gather a detailed understanding of the existing policy and legistration, programing and services, needs and ch...
Monitoring and evaluation of Murea cookstoves Project
The project is micro- scale Gold Standard VER (GS-VER) project. The primary goals of this project were to determine daily fuel consumption in homes using three...
Democracy consolidation programme phase III: mid-term survey
The project was funded by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The Democracy Consolidation Programme Phase III(DCP III) Mid-term Survey was aimed at mea...
A situation analysis of non-biomedical interventions in Malawi
Access to healthcare for vulnerable people in Africa(Equitable)
The Equitable project was lauched in Malawi in 2009 and aimed at exploring access to healthcare by vulnerable groups especialy people with disability. The study...
Accessing Tuberculosis Disease Prevalence in Malawi Through a Population-Based Survey
The Ministry of Health in conjuction with Centre for Social Research with technical support from the Centres for Disease Control, Atlanta; conducted a populatio...
Evaluation of the Rapid Scale- UP of Maternal, Newborn and child Health in Malawi
The rapid Scale Up of maternal, Newborn and child Health(MNCH) in Malawi. The rapid Scale-Up builds on Ministry of Health plans and programs with the aim of ac...
Tiwalere Orphan and vulnerable children (OVC) Project
The tiwalere Orphan and Vulnerable Children (OVC) project was a public/ private partnership designed to benefit OVC's in all 15 districts covering the northern...
Head Count of child Care Centres in Malawi
The minstry of Gender, Children and Community Development with support from UNICEF was conducting Head Count of Child Care Institutions in Malawi in order to de...
Evaluation of the rapid scale-up of maternal, newborn and child health in Malawi
The main objective was to provide proof of concept that proven interventions can be scaled up rapidly to reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality and nutrit...
Defragmenting african Resource Management (DARMA)
The Centre for social research (CSR) in collaboration with a number of universities and government Departments in the SADC region are conducting an action resea...
Evaluating and validating the child status index
This project was sponsored by the united states Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Child and Family applied Research (CFAR) grant. The mai...
Accessibility to health services among people with disabilities in southern Africa
This project studied the availability and accessbility of health services to people with disabilities and the degree of inclusion of people with disabilities in...
Grobal youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS)
The main objective of the GYTS & GSPS was to collect , analyse, report and disseminate the Global Tobacco Survey data in order, ultimately to save lives through...
Access to health services among people with disabilities in Malawi.
This study aimed at assessing the extent of substance and alcohol abuse and how this also relates to poverty, sexual risk behavior and gender based violence in...
A National Inventory Of Community-Based Child Care Centres In Malawi
A National Inventory of Community-Based Child Care Centers in Malawi: a four-month survey conducted by Centre for Social Research in 2006. The survey was funded...
Migration and social Protection - south africa
CSR was contracted by the institute for development Studies (IDS) of UK to conduct a survey for a period of 2 weeks in Mangochi on migration and social protecti...
Baseline Survey For The Health Component of The Millenium Villages Project
The Centre for Social Research in conjunction with the Earth Institute at Columbia University (the client) conducted a baseline survey for the health compnent o...
Monitoring, Evaluation And Research On The Health Sector Wide Approach (SWAP)
The Government of Malawi worked on Health sector wide approach (SWAp) with contributions from various bilateral and multilateral development partners. The Minis...
Rapid Assessments On Child Domestic Labour In Selected Districts In Malawi
The Centre for Social Research was assigned by the International Labour Organization to conduct the survey in Lilongwe, Mangochi, Mchinji and Mzimba districts....
Lilongwe - Blantyre HIV prevalence study
The main objective of the qualitative component of this study was to explore factors behind the observed decline in HIV prevalence among pregnant women in Lilon...