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.
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...
MOVING OUT OF POVERTY
The overall objective of the workshop is to come up with 'near to the ground ' findings from the various instruments and sites as a basis for the national synth...
CHILD MOBILITY DFID/ESRC
The project is funded by ESRC and DFID . It focuses on the mobility constraints faced by girl and boy children in accessing health, educational and other facili...
SWEF
The College of Medicine in collaboration with the Centre for Social Research , conducted a study on examining the impact of the activities funded by the global...
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...
Food insecurity, public policy and the spread of HIV/AIDS in Malawi
This study assessed how differences in the experience of food insecurity - among different social groups, over recent seasons and years and in different rural a...
7 UP MARK 11 PROJECT
The goal was to conduct an evaluation of the competition concerns, including their regional dimensions faced in these countries, and the existing architecture f...
BASELINE INVENTORY/DEVELOPMENT SURVEY OF SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM
The project aimed to assist local stakeholders in building local capacities to promote, install and service solar photovoltaic (PV) applications.
NEWS COVERAGE OF GENDER BASED VIOLENCE IN MALAWI (GBV)
The main objective of this study is to extract all cases of Gender-based violence reported in the major newspapers in Malawi, namely 'The Daily Times', 'The Nat...
RAPID APPRAISAL OF MAIZE AND OTHER BASIC FOODS
THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY WILL BE TO ASSESS THE AVAILABILITY OF STORED MAIZE AND OTHER BASIC FOODS, NAMELY RICE, MILLET, SORGHUM, PULSES, WHEAT AND ROO...
IDENTIFICATION OF THE POOREST OF THE POOR FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS
The overall objectve of this strudy is to design ways of identifying and targeting the poorest of the poor with ITNs. The study reviews and evaluates existing m...
SOCIAL PATHWAYS SURVEY - CARE MALAWI
The study documented the stages of HIV/AIDS progression, and the negative effect of denial, i.e., the conspiracy of silence has on: fueling the transmission of...
RAPID SITUATION ASSESSMENT OF DRUG AND ABUSE IN MALAWI
To assesss the extent of drug abuse and identfy the linkages between drug abuse and HIV/AIDS in Malawi
CSR/KONRAD ADENAUER FOUNDATION (KAF) TRAINING OF YOUNG POLITIAN PROGRAM (TYP) PROJECT
Contribute towards the consolidation of the democratic process in Malawi [Contract value: EAURO 77,420.86]
PMTCT INFORMATIVE STUDY
The project was done between march and july 2003 by centre for social research of the university of malawi with the aim of to explore the perception of people i...
HUNGER IN MALAWI SURVEY
The study aimed to address the impacts of the food crisis on affected households and communities and what coping strategies have households adopted to survive t...
FURTHERE RESEARCH COOPERATION BETWEEN CSR AND NIBR
Analyse whether processes of political decentralisation will lead to more vibrant local democracy in developing country with a weak and fragmented civil society
FURTHER RESEARCH COOPERATION BETWEEN CSR AND NIBR
The project is research programme on local democracy carried out by the Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional Research (NIBR) and Centre of Social Research...
HUNGER, CHILD LABOUR AND PUBLIC POLICY IN MALAWI
This study aimed to determine the impact of the 2002 hunger crisis on child labour and school attendance and also to review how child labour issues are reflecte...
SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PROGRAMME FOR THE TOURISM AND TRAVEL INDUSTRY, PARKS AND WILDLIFE
Conduct a baseline survey which will document the attitudes , behavious and practise of employers and employees in relation tto SRH/HIV/AIDS , gender equality ,...
African Food Crisis The Relevance Of Asian Models
African food crisis the relevance of Asian models was a four-year project (2001-2004) funded by Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation and Swedish International...
COMPLEMENTARY PANEL SURVEY
be able to compute to a household welfare indicator which is comparable to that developed in the poverty analysis of the IHS , while maintaining comparability w...