Projects

The Reckitt Global Hygiene Institute’s Early Childhood Development Research Project

The Reckitt Global Hygiene Institute’s (RGHI) Early Childhood Development (ECD) project is a three-year study (2024-2026) aimed at developing and testing an ECDC-based intervention to improve hygiene behaviors in both ECDCs and home environments. The project will be implemented in collaboration with the University of Strathclyde and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine […]

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The WASH for Everyone (W4E) project: Testing alternative approaches to sanitation and hygiene behaviour change in Chiradzulu, Malawi.

Poor sanitation and hygiene are an enduring public health challenge in Malawi. In most rural communities including Chiradzulu district, the coverage of sanitation facilities is very low with some people still practicing open defaecation. The Malawi government like other developing countries uses the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), an approach that requires active community participation to

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USAID Advancing Nutrition: Learning with Care Groups through Participatory Research in Malawi

Background USAID Advancing Nutrition collaborated with Akule ndi Thanzi, a USAID Malawi-funded nutrition project and WASHTED at the Malawi University if Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS) to conduct participatory, user-cantered research aimed at improving the quality of peer support groups in Malawi. The partnership focused on Salima and Dowa districts, supporting the Malawi National Nutrition

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RGHI Early Childhood Development Project Kicks Off in Malawi

The Reckitt Global Hygiene Institute’s (RGHI) Early Childhood Development (ECD) project launched its activities this June. The ECDC project aims to develop and test an ECDC-based intervention to improve hygiene behaviours both in ECDCs and home environments. This includes creating clean surroundings, promoting handwashing, and ensuring food hygiene. The study will be implemented in three

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NIHR Global Health Research Group on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing in Malawi

With funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), experts from the University of Strathclyde, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHESI) and the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS) are conducting a research to assess strategies for enhancing adolescent health and well-being in Malawi. This collaborative effort places a strong

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Sustainable Plastic Attitudes to benefit Communities and their Environments

Discarded plastic in the peri-urban environment is a serious challenge for sustainable waste management and for the delivery of environmental & public health. In many cities in sub-Saharan Africa including Malawi, plastic wastes, and plastic bags in particular, contribute to blockage of waterways, provide a larval habitat for mosquitoes and potentially spread pathogens. WASHTED has

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Improving Hygiene in Guardian Waiting Shelters and Communities in Malawi: an intervention development and feasibility study

In Malawi, Guardian Waiting Shelters (GWS) serve as homes for the guardians while they take care of their patients at the hospital or as homes for pregnant waiting mothers and their guardians, and in other scenarios, a combination of pregnant waiting mothers and their guardians and other guardians from the general wards. However, most GWS

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Safewater Translate

Studies have shown that not all water sources classified as “improved” produce water that is free from faecal contamination, the case is worse for unimproved sources. To ascertain that water is safe, tests need to be done. Water quality tests that are easy that are faster, to use and cheap are being advocated for worldwide.

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Examining Sanitation for Urban Inclusion, Transformation and Equity (SUITE) project

The current world-wide problems in urban sanitation call for transdisciplinary, multisectoral and multi-solution approaches to achieve inclusive and sustainable urban sanitation; challenges to achieve this may occur when the different stakeholders have different interpretations for inclusion and sustainability. To establish a baseline, this study aimed to examine current perceptions on inclusion and sustainability of sanitation

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