Projects

The Reckitt Global Hygiene Institute’s Early Childhood Development (ECD) Project The Reckitt Global Hygiene Institute’s (RGHI) Early Childhood Development (ECD) project is a multi-phase study (2024–2026) aimed at generating evidence to inform the design of targeted hygiene interventions in Early Childhood Development Centres (ECDCs) in Blantyre District, Malawi. With funding from the RGHI, the project […]

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

One in three people around the world do not have access to safe drinking water. The majority of these live in rural areas with no realistic hope in the foreseeable future of access to distributed treated water systems. However cheaper, easy to use Household Water Treatment and Storage methods can provide interim solutions to the