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    The interface between Local Level Politics, Constitutionalism and State Formation in Malawi through the lens of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF)

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2009
    Malawi adopted devolution or democratic decentralisation as the strategy for implementing its decentralisation policy reforms seen as a logical conclusion to the transition to democracy since May 1994. The decentralisation policy reforms are intended to concretise the realisation of democratic local governments provided for in article 146 of the constitution.
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    Reflections on the amendments to the electoral and local government acts

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2010
    While Malawi has a long history of decentralisation, the current phase of decentralisation is closely linked to the historic transition from a one party autocratic regime to a multiparty democracy in May 1994.
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    Integrated community based maternal and new-born care learning programme

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2008
    This report presents results of a field study of beliefs, behaviours and practices relating to maternal and newborn care in Malawi. The study was commissioned by the Ministry of Health in partnership with ACCESS/Malawi, and was conducted in the districts of Rumphi in the north, Nkhotakota in the centre, and Machinga in the south.
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    Community broadcasting in Malawi: which way forward?

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2000
    This document is a report of a field study of community broadcasting in Malawi commissioned by AMARC Africa.
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    Exploring the politics of land reforms in Malawi: a case study of the Community Based Rural Land Development Programme (CBRLDP)

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2008
    Land remains the most significant productive asset for the majority of Malawians, yet it is far from being equitably distributed.
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    Circumcision, information, and HIV prevention

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2010
    Despite the substantial effort in the past decade by multi-national organizations, governments and non- governmental organization, HIV/AIDS continues to spread (USAID 2005). Recently, attention has been placed on male circumcision as a potential HIV prevention strategy.
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    Access to land, growth and poverty reduction in Malawi

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2004
    Malawi has pursued an agricultural-led development strategy since its independence in 1964. This agricultural-led development strategy was based on the promotion of a dual agricultural system comprising estate (large-scale) production mainly for cash (export) crops and smallholder agricultural production mainly to support the food security needs of the population.
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    Farmer organisations and profitability in smallholder tobacco in Malawi

    Economics Department, University of Malawi, 2009
    Do Malawian smallholder farmers benefit from national institutions in terms of profitability of tobacco farming? This study sought to answer this question, analysing the role of farmer organisations in promoting the welfare of smallholder farmers in the tobacco industry.
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    Determinants of child nutrition in Malawi

    Economics Department, University of Malawi, 2006
    The problem of malnutrition amongst children under 5 in Africa has worsened in recent years following increasing levels of poverty and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In Malawi the available statistics are shocking: half of the children below the age of five years are too short for their age (stunted); 25 percent are too thin for their age (underweight); 5 percent are too thin for their height (wasted).
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    The participatory development approach under a microscope: the case of the poverty alleviation programme in Malawi

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2003
    There is little doubt that one of the most momentous policy events within the development community at the beginning of the previous decade was the return of poverty on the international development agenda.

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