As the floating toilet challenge continues, four teams have been merged into two. The two teams together with their mentors and Staff from Phalombe District Health Office visited Lake Chilwa to gain more insight into the challenge they have to address. The teams met local fishermen and “fished” out information to feed into their designs. […]
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Six teams from The Polytechnic, University of Livingstonia, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) and Sustainable Environmental Management Solutions were invited to present their Floating Toilet designs on 22nd January 2018 at the Polytechnic. The assessment panel included Dr. T. Mkandawire (Associate Professor in Civil Engineering and Dean of Engineering), Dr. C. Kambala
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After successful application for the PASGAR research methods seminar, on 6th November travelled to Kenya where he attended two seminars, the Design of Social Inquiry and the Case study workshop. The workshops ended on the 24th November and he came back on 25th November, 2015. The seminar was supported by SHARE from the research fellowship
The toilet was further celebrated on the 18th of November. The guest of honour, councilor Gertrude Chilambo, primary school students and different WASH practitioners walked from the clock tower in Blantyre to the Nyambadwe primary school ground in Ndirande. The walk was spiced up by the performance of the Malawi Prison Band who performed different
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WASHTED in collaboration with University of Strathclyde, UK (Lead Partner), United Purpose and Community Energy Malawi is implementing a project aimed at increasing access to sustainable energy for rural communities in Dedza and Balaka Districts, thereby enabling economic development and improved livelihoods. The project begun in October 2018 and will run to March 2023 The
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When COVID-19 was discovered, school closure was among the first actions taken by authorities to prevent its spread. Despite previous reports indicating that children were not super-spreaders of COVID-19, the second wave of the pandemic showed to infect children. Thus, there was a need to protect the learners from contracting COVID-19 while in school. In
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Project brief: WASH endeavors regularly fail. Sometimes this means that entire programmes do not achieve their stated aims, sometimes these failures are setbacks which can be rectified with sufficient reflection and action. WASHTED partnered with the University of Western Australia; University of Leeds, UK and University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa among others in conducting research
Amplifying Local Voices To Reduce Failures In The Sub-Saharan WASH Sector Read More »
The growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is well recognised, with low and middle income (LMICs) countries more likely to be more severely affected due to overstretched health systems, existing Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) challenges and poor access to alternative antibiotic regime. WASHTED in collaboration with Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust (MLW) lead by Liverpool
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After the successful completion of the DRUM project in 2021 which aimed at understanding the Drivers of Antimicrobial Resistance in Uganda and Malawi, WASHTED and its collaborating partner Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust (MLW) went back to the study areas to give feedback and validate the study results. The sessions were conducted in March 2022 in
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WASHTED participated in the event through presentations from different studies: Anti-Microbial Resistance (DRUM); Hygiene in early childhood development centers (SHARE); WASH monitoring in schools; and inclusive and sustainable urban sanitation. We also had a pavilion that showcased our work, publications, and equipment for environmental assessments and testing. Our research fellows, Dr. Save Kumwenda and Dr.
MEHA 2022 Conference Read More »
