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  Using Touchscreen Electronic Medical Record Systems to Support and Monitor National Scale-Up of Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi

  PLoS Medicine, 2010

  This article describes the rationale and experience of using a touchscreen electronic medical record (EMR) system at the point-of-care (POC)  to monitor and support antiretroviral therapy (ART) scale up in Malawi.
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  Information sharing among fisheries and aquaculture institutions for sustainable development in Malawi

  2011

  Malawi has no more than ten libraries and information centers which are involved in aquaculture and fisheries information.
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  Using Mobile Phones to Improve Child Nutrition Surveillance in Malawi

  2009

  Malawi’s current system for child nutrition data collection, the Integrated Nutritional and Food Security Surveillance (INFSS) system uses a random sample of children visiting growth monitoring clinics (GMCs) throughout the country to measure trends in child nutrition.
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  Trade Policy and Industrialisation in Malawi: The Need for a Strategic Approach

  Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2011

  There is consensus among economists that the performance of the Malawi economy was strong in the first fifteen years of independence, 1964-79. The early success of the economy is associated with a decisive import substitution industrialisation strategy and export-led agricultural development.
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  Reclaiming Policy Space: Lessons from Malawi’s Fertilizer Subsidy Programme

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2007

  This paper is based on research work carried out the under auspices of the Politics and Policy Processes theme of the Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC). It demonstrates that political context matters in agricultural development policy issues, using as illustration the case of the fertilizer subsidy programme launched in Malawi in the 2005/2006 growing season.
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  A rapid appraisal of the factors influencing the right to vote in parliamentary elections in Malawi

  Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 2003

  Malawi became a sovereign state on July 6th 1964. Its first president was Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, who ruled the country from independence until May 1994. Under Dr. Banda the only political party allowed to operate legally was the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), of which he himself was president. Moreover, no dissent or opposition of any kind was allowed in the country.
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  The Quest for Food Security in Malawi: Policy vs Practice

  Bunda College of Agriculture, 2000

  According to the Malawi Vision 2020 report, the country aspires to have adequate and safe food for all members of the households at all times of the year by the year 2020. It is expected that this will be achieved through own production and using cash to buy food from the markets.
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  Getting rights right - Is access to justice as important as access to health or education?: id21 insights, issue 43

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  A core government function is to provide an effective system of justice for its citizens. Yet many governments fail to deliver on the basic services of protecting physical safety, securing personal property and settling disputes quickly and fairly. Recent studies have highlighted the fact that for poor people, access to justice
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  Achieving food security: id21 insights, issue 61

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Halving hunger and extreme poverty by 2015 is the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG). However, persistent hunger is still prevalent worldwide, slowing progress towards all other MDGs, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Advocacy, communication and social mobilization for TB control: collection of country-level good practices

  World Health Organization, 2010

  This document - born out of the need for practical examples of the fifth component of the Stop TB Strategy: “Empower people with TB, and communities through partnership” - contains good practice examples of country-level Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilisation (ACSM).

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