Malawi has strong policies and frameworks for nutrition but insufficient funding to implement them.
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Malawi is one of the most committed countries in Africa to improving nutrition, yet it still has one of the highest rates of malnutrition in the region and is struggling to turn commitments into action at scale.
Malawi has made significant progress in improving nutrition outcomes in the past decades. Despite this, the rates of stunting and anaemia remain high and overweight and obesity amongst women is rising.
A review of evidence was conducted to understand the trends and determinants of malnutrition and identify interventions and programmes that improved maternal and child nutrition in Malawi.
This dataset explores (1) labor supply and (2) perceptions and impacts of COVID-19 via 4 quarterly phone surveys in rural Malawi.
Measuring women's empowerment: Gender and time-use agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria
Time use, or how women and men allocate their time, is an important element of empowerment processes.
Economic evaluation of an early childhood development center–based agriculture and nutrition intervention in Malawi
Malnutrition is a leading cause of death and disability among children in low-income countries. Nutrition-sensitive interventions show promise in increasing food access and improving diets.
Women’s empowerment and gender equality in agricultural value chains: Evidence from four countries in Asia and Africa
Women play important roles at different nodes of both agricultural and off-farm value chains, but in many countries their contributions are either underestimated or limited by prevailing societal norms or gender-specific barriers.
The survey questionnaires were designed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to collect information on the experiences of and constraints to employment and ent
The qualitative research protocols were designed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to identify issues that most constrain women’s access to employment and e
In this paper, we utilize decomposition methods to document the extent and drivers of the performance gap in Malawi between firms with a female owner and firms with a male owner.
This brief summarizes the recent assessment of the implementation of the Agricultural Technical and Vocational Education Training for Women Program (ATVET4Women) that aims to support women and their families with vocational training and market lin
Inclusive agricultural value chains (VCs) are potential drivers for poverty reduction, food security, and women’s empowerment.
Exploring gendered experiences of time-use agency in Benin, Malawi, and Nigeria as a new concept to measure women’s empowerment
Time use, or how women and men allocate their time, is an important aspect of empowerment.
Many development agencies are designing and implementing value chain interventions that aim to reach, benefit, and empower rural women.
Disclosure, reporting and help seeking among child survivors of violence: A cross-country analysis
Violence against children is a pervasive public health issue, with limited data available across multiple contexts.
Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Change (BRACC) is a five year program whose main objective is to strengthen the resilience of poor and vulnerable households to withstand current and future weather and climate-related shocks and stres
Governments and development partners looking to accelerate progress in addressing malnutrition have been examining how to use interventions in value-chains to improve diets.
Preschool-based nutrition-sensitive BCC intervention improved child nutrition in food-insecure Malawi.