Population Dynamics of Malawi: a Re-Examination of the Existing Demographic Data
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Malawi Second Integrated Household Survey (IHS-2) 2004-2005
Malawi Second Integrated Household Survey (IHS-2) 2004-2005 Basic Information Document October 2005 National Statistics Office, P.O Box 333 Zomba, Malawi www.nso.malawi.net 1 ACRONYMS ADD Agricultural Development Division EA Enumeration area IHS-2 Second Integrated Household Survey 2004-2005 IHS-1 First Integrated Household Survey, 1997-98 MK Malawi Kwache NSO National Statistics Office of Malawi PSU Primary Sampling Unit TA Traditional Authority 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................2 2.0 SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRES............................................................................................................................2 3.0 SAMPLE DESIGN ................................................................................................................................................9 3.1 SAMPLE FRAMEWORK......................................................................................................................................9 POPULATION DENSITY MAP OF MALAWI......................................................................................................................10 3.2 SAMPLE SELECTION.........................................................................................................................................10 3.3 PRE-ENUMERATION LISTING .........................................................................................................................12 -
The Malawi "Hybrid Medical Graduates (1992-1998)
East and Central African Journal of Surgery Vol. 5, No. 2 The Malawi "hybrid medical graduates (1992-1998). Adelola Adeloye MS FRCS FRCP Professor and Head of Surge y College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi Key words: medical education, medical school, Malawi, Central Africa In April 1991, the Malawi College of Medicine education took place outside Malawi and they came opened its doors to Malawi medical students back to Malawi in their final year to be prepared for who had undertaken all but the final year of the MB BS degrees in Malawi. their undergraduate training in the United Kingdom. The first batch quawied with the MB Hybridisation in learning goes back to medieval BS degrees of the University of Malawi in times when peripatetic scholars travelled from place September 1992. Since then andup to July 1998, to place in quest of knowledge. There are more 112 doctors have been produced. They are all recent examples of hybridisation in medical Malawians, 90 males and 22 females, 29%, 31% education. Medical students of the University of and 40% respectively come from the Northern, Cambridge undertook the first part of their Central and Southern regions of Malawi. undergraduate career in Cambridge and thereafter Seventy-one per cent of the graduates had went to the London medical schools for their passed through Chancellor College, Zomba, and clinical training. In Nigeria we hacl the 27% had attended the Kamuzu Academy, "Ibadan-London" hybrid medical students. Kasunga, Malawi. After four preclinical years in Ibadan University College, then a college of the University of London, So far, most of these graduates have remained they went to the London teaching hospitals to com- in Malawi, working in various locations in plete their medical education, graduating with the government and mission hospitals and at the MB BS degrees of the University of Lonclon. -
Malawi Homeless People's Federation & Centre for Community
Malawi Homeless People’s Federation & Centre for Community Organisation and Development REPORT ON PREPATORY WORKS FOR UPFI PROJECTS IN MALAWI JULY 2009 INTRODUCTION The Urban Poor Fund International in November 2008, supported the CCODE and the Malawi Homeless People’s Federation to help build their capacity so as to fully manage and implement future projects. The funds provided were used to build the systems starting with activities at the group to the National Level. In March 2009, supplementary funds to the tune of $10,000 were provided from UPFI to finalise the capacity building programmes. This report is a progress report following on the report last submitted in January 2009. PROGRESS TO DATE Mchenga Fund System The system is currently being tested with small loans being provided to groups and to date the repayment procedures are being followed through and the repayment rates have improved immensely. Trainings for groups that are managing loans were carried out and currently the results of such trainings are already bearing fruit as groups are now able to report timely both to the CCODE office and to their respective districts and regions. One of the recommendations from the Urban Poor Fund International learning programme in Zimbabwe was that the hub would send a follow up team to learn and also evaluate some of the systems used by the Malawian Federation. The visit was undertaken and the outcome was very positive from the Zimbabwean team as they also experienced the preparedness of the Malawian Federation to undertake large scale capital projects again. Districts have started approving and implementing small projects using the systems which have been developed. -
Spatial Analysis of Factors Associated with HIV
Nutor et al. BMC Public Health (2020) 20:1167 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09278-0 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Spatial analysis of factors associated with HIV infection in Malawi: indicators for effective prevention Jerry John Nutor1* , Henry Ofori Duah2, Pascal Agbadi3, Precious Adade Duodu4 and Kaboni W. Gondwe5,6 Abstract Background: The objective of this study was to model the predictors of HIV prevalence in Malawi through a complex sample logistic regression and spatial mapping approach using the national Demographic and Health Survey datasets. Methods: We conducted a secondary data analysis using the 2015–2016 Malawi Demographic and Health Survey and AIDS Indicator Survey. The analysis was performed in three stages while incorporating population survey sampling weights to: i) interpolate HIV data, ii) identify the spatial clusters with the high prevalence of HIV infection, and iii) perform a multivariate complex sample logistic regression. Results: In all, 14,779 participants were included in the analysis with an overall HIV prevalence of 9% (7.0% in males and 10.8% in females). The highest prevalence was found in the southern region of Malawi (13.2%), and the spatial interpolation revealed that the HIV epidemic is worse at the south-eastern part of Malawi. The districts in the high HIV prevalent zone of Malawi are Thyolo, Zomba, Mulanje, Phalombe and Blantyre. In central and northern region, the district HIV prevalence map identified Lilongwe in the central region and Karonga in the northern region as districts that equally deserve attention. People residing in urban areas had a 2.2 times greater risk of being HIV- positive compared to their counterparts in the rural areas (AOR = 2.16; 95%CI = 1.57–2.97). -
Malawi Essay
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Research Repository and Portal - University of the West of Scotland UWS Academic Portal Perspectives on theological education in Malawi Matemba, Yonah Published in: Arts and Humanities in Higher Education DOI: 10.1177/1474022211408036 Published: 01/07/2011 Document Version Peer reviewed version Link to publication on the UWS Academic Portal Citation for published version (APA): Matemba, Y. (2011). Perspectives on theological education in Malawi. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 10(3), 329-347. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474022211408036 General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the UWS Academic Portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact [email protected] providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 17 Sep 2019 PERSPECTIVES ON THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN MALAWI Yonah H. Matemba Lecturer in Education, University of the West of Scotland, UK (Accepted for publication: Journal: Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 10:3) ABSTRACT This essay gives an overview of (Christian) Theological Education (hereinafter, CTE) in Malawi. To place the discussion in its appropriate context, information about Malawi is given including the impact of Christianity on the country. It then describes historical aspects of CTE and in that part of the discussion highlights some of inherent shortcomings of CTE. -
Religion Networks and Hiv/Aids in Rural Malawi
RELIGION NETWORKS AND HIV/AIDS IN RURAL MALAWI DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for The Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Ohio State University By jimi adams * * * * * Ohio State University 2007 Dissertation Committee: Approved by Professor Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Advisor Professor James W. Moody, Outside Member _______________________ Professor Korie Edwards Advisor Sociology Graduate Program Professor Steven H. Lopez Copyright by jimi adams 2007 ABSTRACT Sub-Saharan Africa’s residents represent approximately two-thirds of the nearly 40 million global HIV/AIDS cases, while comprising only about one-tenth of the world’s population. In the rural settings where most inhabitants of SSA live, religious organizations are the only formal organizations present, and virtually all residents of SSA participate in a religious organization. Many have theorized a relationship between religion and HIV/AIDS, suggesting alternately its helpful and harmful potential in this crisis. The existing research conceptualizes religion, HIV risk and the connection between them by studying individuals, organizations, or aggregations of individuals and organizations. In this dissertation, I demonstrate the adjustments a network perspective contributes to researchers’ ability to understand religious organizational responses to this epidemic, the nature of HIV-risk and, perhaps most importantly, how these are linked. The resulting conceptualization suggests some of the first mechanisms that demonstrate how -
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MALAWI ALERT STATUS: WATCH FOOD SECURITY UPDATE WARNING EMERGENCY June 2004 CONTENTS SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS Hazard Overview...................... 2 According to the Malawi VAC food security projection for June 2004 – March 2005, up to 1.6 Food and Livelihood Security.. 3 million people, most of them in the southern region, will require food assistance in the coming year. Household food deficits have resulted mainly from a poor growing season, which was preceded by Special Focus - Lake Chilwa & higher than normal prices in the lower Shire, following a poor winter harvest last season. There is Phalombe Plains ....................... 4 an urgent need to plan for the immediate provision of food or cash aid to affected areas, to identify sub-district targeting mechanisms, and to strengthen monitoring of rural staple prices and ganyu terms of trade. SEASONAL TIMELINE Current month CURRENT HAZARD SUMMARY • With the harvest well underway, it is now clear that the rains were insufficient this year to support adequate maize production. • Staple prices are higher than normal in the southern areas, reflecting both a supply shortage (spurred on by the near-failure of both last season’s winter harvest and this year’s main harvest) and an unusual seasonal increase in demand. • Livestock prices are normal at the moment but may begin to decline in the months ahead as the number of households running out of food increases. • Ganyu rates, an important indicator of food security, are normal at the moment, but may change as the performance of the next agricultural season, beginning in October, becomes clear. FOOD SECURITY SITUATION Figure 1: Location of affected households Preliminary figures indicate that between 1,340,000 and 1,680,000 people will experience a significant food shortage this year, equivalent to approximately 56,030 – 83,550 MT of Households in the cereals. -
Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom)
ELECTRICITY SUPPLY CORPORATION OF MALAWI (ESCOM) PRESENTATION EXECUTIVE EXCHANGE ON DEVELOPING AN ANCILLARY SERVICE MARKET FOR SAPP BACKGROUND INFORMATION Malawi-119 thousand square kilometers Malawi population-15 million-2011 Lilongwe is the capital city (Central region) Blantyre commercial (Southern) Mzuzu commercial (Northern) with fast growing industries. MAP OF MALAWI ECONOMIC FREEDOM Malawi's economic freedom score is 55.3 making its economy the 118th freest in the 2013 world Index; Malawi is ranked 20th out of 46 countries in the Sub- Saharan Africa region overall score is only a few points below the world average. Malawi scores slightly above average in investment freedom and financial freedom Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) is a statutory corporation that generates, transmit, and distribute electrical energy in Malawi. The corporation is divided into business units according to its operations; Generation Business Unit (GBU), Transmission Business Unit (TBU), and Distribution Business Unit (DBU). GENERATION BUSINESS UNIT (GBU) is a unit that operationally deals with generation of electricity. The Business Unit comprise of: Nkula A Power Station :8X3=24MW Nkula B Power Station :20X5=100MW Tedzani 1&2 Power Station :10X4=40MW Tedzani-3 Power Station :26.35X2=52.7MW Kapichira Power Station :32.4X2=64.8MW TOTAL : 281.5MW ESCOM GRID Malawi’ s Total power Demand is around 360MW and projected 400MW by end of 2013; (Against a total available capacity of 281.5MW). SOUTHERN REGION Southern region: Heavy industrials i.e. Blantyre city, the commercial city and Zomba city- commercial loads; Illovo Sugar company, Tea and cotton companies-industrial and agricultural loads. CENTRAL REGION Central region: Heavy industrials i.e. -
1 the Meanings of Boundaries: Contested Landscapes of Resource
The Meanings of Boundaries: Contested Landscapes of Resource Use in Malawi Peter A. Walker Department of Geography, University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1251 [email protected] Fax: (541) 346-2067 Pauline E. Peters Harvard Institute for International Development, Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 [email protected] Fax: (617) 495-0527 Stream: Multiple Commons Discipline: Geography/Anthropology This paper examines the changing meanings of boundaries that demarcate community, private, and public land in Malawi and their roles in shaping resource use. Boundaries have long been a central concept in many social science disciplines, and recently considerable attention has been given to the ways that boundaries—whether physical or socio-cultural—are socially constructed and contested. In some cases landscapes are said to reflect multiple overlapping or multi-layered boundaries asserted by competing social groups. In other cases boundaries are said to be blurred, or even erased, through social contests and competing discourses. The authors of this paper, one a geographer, one an anthropologist, suggest that such choices in analytical language and metaphors tend to obscure certain key social dynamics in which boundaries play a central role. Specifically, the paper argues that in the two case studies presented from southern and central Malawi, social contests focus not on competing (‘overlapping’, or ‘multi-layered’) sets of spatially-defined boundaries but over the meanings of de jure boundaries that demarcate community, private, and state land. In asserting rights to use resources on private and state land, villagers do not seek to shift or eliminate the boundaries marking community and private or state land or to assert alternative sets of spatial boundaries. -
1. Introduction 1. Malawi: a Multi-Ethnic Nation
From: Dr. Willie Zeze RE: Abstract Submission – 2015 Religious Freedom and Religious Pluralism in Africa: Prospects and Limitations Conference DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION AND ETHNIC ORGANIZATIONS IN MALAWI - PRESERVING GOOD TRADITIONAL PRACTICES OR PROMOTING NEPOTISM AND TRIBALISM? Abstract Due to the advent of the 1994 democratic constitution particularly its enactment on Protection of human rights and freedoms: Culture and language, Freedom of association, Religion and beliefs, Freedom of assembly and Political rights, Malawi has witnessed mushrooming of tribal organizations, aiming at preserving the traditional African religious beliefs and African cultural traditions. The Chewa Heritage Foundation (Chefo) and the Muhlakho wa Alhomwe (MWA) among the Chewa and Lhomwe tribes respectively are among well-known ethnic organizations through which the traditional beliefs, cultural traditions and religions are enjoying a significant respect from members of mentioned-tribes. The democratic constitution has cleared a road for the establishment of these ethnic organizations. However, it seems activities of Chefo and MWA are inter alia promoting tribalism and nepotism, in addition to being used as campaign tools for some political parties. This article intends to assess and evaluate the role and the impact of the Chefo and MWA on preservation of good cultural practices and constitutional democracy in Malawi. The hypothesis is, in spite of preserving cultural practices as guaranteed in constitution, the tribal organizations need to be watchful so that they should not promote tribalism, nepotism and being used as campaign tools by Malawian politicians. 1. Introduction In order to appreciate how in their understanding the Democratic Constitution the Chewa Heritage Foundation and Mulhako wa Alhomwe in Malawi, revitalize, preserved and protect customs, values, beliefs and traditional practices it is necessary to understand a social- political history of Malawi. -
Property Rights, Land and Territory in the European Overseas Empires
Property Rights, Land and Territory in the European Overseas Empires Direitos de Propriedade, Terra e Território nos Impérios Ultramarinos Europeus Edited by José Vicente Serrão Bárbara Direito, Eugénia Rodrigues and Susana Münch Miranda © 2014 CEHC-IUL and the authors. All rights reserved. Title: Property Rights, Land and Territory in the European Overseas Empires. Edited by: José Vicente Serrão, Bárbara Direito, Eugénia Rodrigues, Susana Münch Miranda. Editorial Assistant: Graça Almeida Borges. Year of Publication: 2014. Online Publication Date: April 2015. Published by: CEHC, ISCTE-IUL. Avenida das Forças Armadas, 1649-026 Lisboa, Portugal. Tel.: +351 217903000. E-mail: [email protected]. Type: digital edition (e-book). ISBN: 978-989-98499-4-5 DOI: 10.15847/cehc.prlteoe.945X000 Cover image: “The home of a ‘Labrador’ in Brazil”, by Frans Post, c. 1650-1655 (Louvre Museum). This book incorporates the activities of the FCT-funded Research Project (PTDC/HIS-HIS/113654/2009) “Lands Over Seas: Property Rights in the Early Modern Portuguese Empire”. Contents | Índice Introduction Property, land and territory in the making of overseas empires 7 José Vicente Serrão Part I Organisation and perceptions of territory Organização e representação do território 1. Ownership and indigenous territories in New France (1603-1760) 21 Michel Morin 2. Brazilian landscape perception through literary sources (16th-18th centuries) 31 Ana Duarte Rodrigues 3. Apropriação econômica da natureza em uma fronteira do império atlântico 43 português: o Rio de Janeiro (século XVII) Maria Sarita Mota 4. A manutenção do território na América portuguesa frente à invasão espanhola da 55 ilha de Santa Catarina em 1777 Jeferson Mendes 5. -
A Right to Land?
Aadfadffa rightdfdadfadf to land? Population density and land rights in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe, 1923-2013 Jenny de Nobel UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN July 2016 A right to land? Population density and land rights in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe, 1923-2013 A MASTER THESIS by Jenny de Nobel s1283545 Supervised by: prof. dr. Jan-Bart Gewald Second reader: dr. Marleen Dekker ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am indebted to prof. Bas van Bavel for introducing me to the academic study of long-term economic patterns. Discerning the drivers of change and essentially questioning how the foundations of societies lead to certain paths of development has inspired much of my work as a student of history. Prof. Nick Vink and prof. Ewout Frankema helped me channel this interest to an area that has been noticeably absent in the literature on questions of global development or the 'Great Divergence': Africa. I can only hope that this study can help fill that hiatus. My gratitude to dr. Cátia Antunes and prof. Robert Ross for sharing their thoughts with me and guiding me through the myriad of ideas that were once the momentum of this thesis. Many thanks to prof. Jan-Bart Gewald for his guidance, support and open-minded approach to my ideas, and dr. Dekker for her comments. Lastly, thanks to my friends and family who kept me going throughout this journey. Your support was invaluable, and this work would not be there without it. Two people, especially, made this possible, and how lucky I am that they are my parents: thank you for your endless faith.