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.
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...
STUDY ON MALAWI HIV/AIDS NATIONAL RESPONSE
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...
HUMAN RESOURCE FOR HEALTH CENSUS
The census was conducted to obtain HRH data in the form of snapshot picture of the current availability of number profiles, skill-mix, and distribution of train...
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...
AFRINT II: The Millenium Development Goals and The African Food Crisis
The Centre for Social Research of the University of Malawi in collaboration with Lund University in Sweden conducted a study whose broad aim was to aim at deter...
CROSCOG
THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS SPECIFIC SUPPORT ACTION IS TO SHARE EXISTING RESEARCH AND EXPERIENCES IN THE GOVERNANCE OF LARGE SCALE NATURAL RESOURCE COMMONS ACROSSS D...
INPUT SUBSIDY PROGRAMME
[Contract value: 5,036 EUROS]
INTERGRATED CHILD LABOUR ELIMINATION PROJECT(ICLEP) II
THE overall objective of this baseline survey was to determine the nature and extent of child labour in the proposed project impact areas of suza and katalima...