Malawi’s new long-term development plan, Malawi 2063, has earmarked the fishing sector as an important contributor to the country’s “inclusive wealth creation” development agenda. Building on previous efforts in the sector, the MW2063 First Implementat …

The Malawi Vision 2063 aspires that Malawi will be a preferred destination for inward investment. Leveraging digital technologies to increase the private sector’s dynamism, broadening the tax base, and increasing investment in infrastructure, and limit …

Despite the recent completion of the Likhubula water supply project, Blantyre is plagued by water shortages. The new infrastructure increased the Blantyre Water Board’s capacity to 122 million L of water daily. However, this is still less than estimate …

More than half of urban residents live in informal settlements or in informal dwellings in areas designated for housing. While regulations and housing permits are critical, compliance with these regulations is of equal importance. In the case of Malawi …

Those who live in dwellings constructed with traditional materials are vulnerable to climatic hazards. This vulnerability can be traced to poor quality of materials; poor and variable construction practice, and the lack of adaptation provisions in buil …

This analysis grew from two distinct research questions: “Where should Malawi focus its resources to achieve industrialization?” and “Which policies can effectively address youth unemployment and underemployment?” In considering the challenges and oppo …

Creating wealth through agriculture has been a long-running development goal in Malawi. Within the country, irrigation is viewed as a valuable opportunity and has increased substantially for smallholder farmers, quadrupling from 15,988 ha in 2011 to 61 …

Malawi has been one of the few low-income countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for child survival. The country is rightly considered a global success story in this area, given its wealth and resource constraints. Malawi has reduce …