• Assessment Of The Potential Adoption Of Liquefied Petroleum Gas For Cooking In Urban Households And Institutions In Malawi 

  Chiumia, Admore Samuel (University of Malawi - The Polytechnic, 2021-10-01)

  More than 96% of Malawians relied on wood fuels (firewood and charcoal) for cooking and heating in 2018. About 4 million people in the country now use charcoal for cooking in urban areas which; has led to loss of forests ...
• Assessment Of Air Quality, Noise Levels And Heavy Metal Concentrations During Dry And Rainy Seasons From Industrial Areas Of Blantyre City, Malawi 

  Utsale, Constance Chifuniro (University of Malawi - The Polytechnic, 2024-07-01)

  This research investigated concentration of air quality, heavy metals and noise levels from industrial areas in Blantyre City, Malawi. Air, noise, and soil samples were collected in both dry and rainy seasons at 15 industrial ...
• Technical And Financial Feasibility Of On-Site Tea Organic Waste Usage: A Case Of Tea Estates In Mulanje District, Malawi 

  Mnjeza, Bedah (University of Malawi - The Polytechnic, 2024-07-01)

  Hygienic waste disposal poses a significant challenge in developing countries, especially those with high population densities, such as Malawi. Inadequate waste management across all types (solid, liquid, and thermal) ...
• Assessing Knowledge, Attitudes, And Practices Of Broiler Chicken Farmers On Antibiotic Use And Residues In Blantyre, Malawi 

  Abraham, Amon (University of Malawi - The Polytechnic, 2024-02-01)

  Antibiotics are used in livestock farming for treatment, disease prevention, growth promotion, preventing outbreaks, and controlling disease outbreaks. Antibiotic use has become more common among farmers due to the high ...
• Impact Of Seasonal Variation And High Industrial Effluent Discharge On Water Quality In Nankhaka River, Lilongwe, Malawi 

  Chirwa, Alick Aniter Sayaya (University of Malawi - The Polytechnic, 2024-06-01)

  Water quality is influenced by physico-chemical and biological factors, and in Malawi, surface water faces significant pressure from diverse forms of pollution, including domestic, agrochemical, and industrial effluent. ...
• Assessment Of Flood Resilience Of Blantyre City Using Flood Resilience Index 

  Tembo Chimzinga, William Greenford (University of Malawi - The Polytechnic, 2021-05-01)

  Floods rank the highest in frequency and impact of all natural hazards worldwide. They have to-date affected more than 2 billion people, the worst in cities owing to their high infrastructural economic values. Efforts to ...
• Modelling Catastrophic Health Expenditures And Its Implication For Household Welfare In Malawi A Spatial Multilevel Approach 

  Mulaga, Atupele Ngina (University of Malawi - The Polytechnic, 2022-11-01)

  Understanding characteristics of population groups vulnerable to catastrophic health expenditures and impoverishment due to health expenditures is important for designing financial protection programs and policies. This ...
• An Application Of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) In The Preparation Of Traditional Opaque Sweet Beverage (Thobwa) In Blantyre City Vendors 

  Peter Phiri, Phillimon (University of Malawi - The Polytechnic, 2021-11-01)

  While the selling of a traditional opaque sweet beverage locally known as “thobwa”, is on the rise in all the cities of Malawi, diarrhoeal diseases are also on the rise. This is more common among low-income earners. The ...
• Adoption Of Rainwater Harvesting Technologies By Smallholder Farmers In Malawi A Case Study Of Zidyana Epa 

  Pendame Msume, Arab (University of Malawi - The Polytechnic, 2017-05-01)

  Rain fed agriculture remains vulnerable to high rainfall variability and impacts of climate change. This has generated widespread interest in innovative practices such as rain water harvesting technologies (RHTs). Despite ...
• Exploring opportunities for public-private partnerships in small scale hydropower plants for rural electrification in Malawi: a case study of Bondo micro hydropower plant 

  Chaponda, Precious (University of Malawi, The Polytechnic, 2018-05-01)

  At 2% of the total population, the low rural electrification status for Malawi is a crucial topic. This is because electricity is directly linked to socioeconomic development. To increase the electrification status, knowing ...
• Factors influencing adoption of off-grid community-based solar photovoltaics in Chikwawa district, Malawi 

  Namakhwa, Collins Duke (University of Malawi, The Polytechnic, 2018-04-01)

  As there are limited opportunities for grid expansion in developing countries whose populations are growing and demand for energy increasing, rural electrification is slowly being achieved through use of off-grid technologies. ...
• Climate change impacts on hydropower generation in Malawi: a case study of Lujeri micro hydropower scheme in Mulanje district 

  Kachaje, Osborne (University of Malawi, The Polytechnic, 2017-10-01)

  The production of hydroelectric power depends, among others, on discharge which is in turn affected by seasonal and quantitative changes in precipitation and evaporation. Climate change has caused changes in the weather ...
• Towards sustainable financing models for micro-hydro plants in Malawi: a case of Bondo micro-hydro scheme 

  Lipunga, Andrew Munthopa (University of Malawi, The Polytechnic, 2017-09-01)

  Malawi is in power crisis. She has one of the poorest rate of electrification with rural areas, where majority (over 80%) of the people live, being worst hit. Ironically the country sits on huge untapped renewable energy ...
• Examination of pit sludge management and physico-chemical characterisation. The case study of Ntopwa, Blantyre, Malawi 

  Chimutu, Darlington (University of Malawi, The Polytechnic, 2017-10-01)

  Urbanisation in most major cities around the world often results in overpopulation and inadequacy of public sanitation facilities and infrastructure. Similarly, in most developing countries inclusive Malawi, almost all ...
• Sanitizing on-site pit sludge during emergency situations using vermicompost, terra preta (anaerobic dry toilet) and anaerobic digester toilets 

  Kamwani, Flavius Magede (University of Malawi, The Polytechnic, 2017-09-01)

  Reaponse to emergency sanitation faces faecal sludge containment and treatment challenges. As a result in emergency camps frequently experience faecal-oral related disease outbreaks. In search of possible solutions the ...
• An assessment of the effectiveness of strategies used by Blantyre Water Board to reduce non-revenue water 

  Mziliwanda, Bright (University of Malawi, The Polytechnic, 2018-05-01)

  Blantyre Water Board has been experiencing a high level of Non-Revenue Water (NRW) which stands at 52%. Reduction of NRW is one of the major challenge facing BWB. Blantyre Water Board is a parastatal organization which was ...
• Assessment of vulnerability and local capacity to respond to flood disasters in Karonga district, Malawi 

  Mwalwimba, Isaac N.K (University of Malawi, The Polytechnic, 2018-01-01)

  Vulnerability is now a global paradigm. While conceptions of vulnerability principles vary between contexts, it primarily aims to ensure a more understanding of how natural hazards such as floods become disasters. However, ...
• Factors affecting the sustainability of community-managed piped water supply schemes: a case of Miseu folo and East bank in Chikwawa district, Malawi 

  Hepeni, Arthur (University of Malawi, The Polytechnic, 2018-06-01)

  Developing countries especially those in the sub-Saharan Africa have the highest non-functional rate of community-managed water supply schemes. This happens after governments and other development partners have invested a ...
• Evaluating the effectiveness of water users associations in promoting active community participation in operation and maintenance of rural gravity-fed water supply schemes 

  Bonga, Davis, Tayanjana (University of Malawi, The Polytechnic, 2016-12-01)

  Water Users Associations (WUAs) have been perceived to be effective in promoting participation in operation and maintenance of rural gravity-fed piped water supply schemes in Malawi (Prisca Kutengule, Community Participation ...
• Seasonal variation of carbaryl and cypermethrin in soils, ground water and surface water in a cotton growing area of Lisungwi in Neno district, Malawi 

  Kanyika – Mbewe, Charity Beauty (University of Malawi, The Polytechnic, 2017-10-01)

  Pesticides play a vital role in crop production in Malawi through the reduction of insects, weeds, plant diseases and other pests. However pesticides contaminate the environment including catchment areas which in turn may ...

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