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With the advancing age of the population and increasing demands on healthcare services, community participation has become an important consideration for healthy aging. The extent to which community participation has been measured objectively in older persons remains scarce. The study adopted a qualitative research approach using a single round ... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Kalea, Emma Thokozile Supervisor(s): Alister MunthaliThe study examined the role of community-based stakeholders in promoting school accountability in six secondary schools in Balaka District. The study used Public Engagement Theory as its theoretical framework and adopted a case study design in a qualitative paradigm to explore the role of community-based stakeholders in promoting school accounta... Read more
School: School of Education
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Banda, Anderson Supervisor(s): Symon ChiziwaThis dissertation explores three interconnected topics concerning external financing to education for human capital development in Africa, gender productivity differences in farming and effects of education on fertility and labour supply. Chapter 1 provides the overarching introduction for the three individual research studies covered in Chapter... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Doctoral Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Nsanja, Lamulo Supervisor(s): Ben KaluwaThe practices of managing people have undergone tremendous changes. However, today public and private organizations can no longer afford to look at people as a commodity to be exploited to exhaustion and then discarded. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which human resource management practices are utilized in selected... Read more
School: School of Education
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Kephas, Loyce Supervisor(s): Frank Mtemang'ombeAs countries continue making gains towards the attainment of sustainable development goals, surveillance of health outcomes at the sub-district level will become important as district level indicators may mask areas where progress is slow. To achieve this high level of surveillance, it may be necessary to pool data from multiple data sources wit... Read more
School: School of Natural and Applied Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Vellemu, RuthThis study examines how Malawian indigenous oral cultural forms reveal people’s environmental consciousness or indigenous ecological knowledge and how that knowledge can be utilised for natural resources management. The study analyses the representation of animals and human-animal relationships in Malawian folktales. It assesses how animals are ... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Doctoral Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Mdoka, Witness Hassan Supervisor(s): Syned MthatiwaThis study aims at establishing why Malawi is struggling to domesticate and implement international gender instruments that she ratified. The specific objectives for the study were: to explore the status of domestication of international gender instruments in Malawi; to identify the roles of different stakeholders in domestication of internation... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Nyirenda, Golie Nthambazale Supervisor(s): Happy KayuniVarious studies have documented positive impacts of religion on education. Little attention has been given to understanding negative impacts. This study investigated the negative impact of Pentecostalism on education attainment in Malawi. Data was collected using a questionnaire and interviews with teachers, and students from twelve secondary sc... Read more
School: School of Education
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Msendema, Chikumbutso Supervisor(s): Symon ChiziwaThis study investigated the barriers that prevent the Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) start up and hamper their potential growth in Malawi. The study further analysed the role of Youth Enterprise Development Fund (YEDF) on the growth of MSEs in Mwanza, Lilongwe Rural and Karonga districts. The study contributes to knowledge and literature of... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Missinjo, MusandideThe purpose of this study was to explore the views of School Leadership on implementation of secondary school curriculum assessment reforms (SSCAR). The research was conducted at Walemera Cluster of seven (7) secondary schools in the Central East Education Division (CEED) in Nkhotakota district. This was a qualitative study in which data was gen... Read more
School: School of Education
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Kalera, Mable Alice Supervisor(s): Symon ChiziwaThis thesis intended to comparatively analyze the factors that affect the implementation of the ethical code of conduct in the public sector. The study was conducted in two government institutions which were purposively selected and the main focus was on how the code is implemented, its enforcement practices, the organizational (both internal an... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Gundo, Gloria Apouzer Supervisor(s): Asiyati Lorraine ChiwezaAccess to clean, affordable and sustainable energy is one of the greatest challenges that people in Malawi currently face. Inefficient combustion of charcoal emits high levels of pollutants hence the need to explore clean cooking fuels such as ethanol briquettes. The study assesses the technical performance, social-cultural aspects and the econo... Read more
School: School of Natural and Applied Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Chomanika, Kelvin Banda Supervisor(s): Ephraim VunainThe study interrogated the reasons behind challenges of service delivery in the local government. Data was collected through in-depth interviews from Blantyre District Council, Blantyre City Council and Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, the study established the reasons behind the technical, political and contextual challenges ... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Mughogho, Felistus Rabecca LwingaThis study explored the problem of high turnover among beginning Religious Education teachers. The study describes and interprets lived experiences of beginning RE teachers in eight secondary schools in the neighbourhood of Zomba in Malawi. It is a qualitative study. It adopted social constructivist and post-industrial perspectives and used the ... Read more
School: School of Education
Research type: Doctoral Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Mbewe, Mastone Lenias Kachikwerete Supervisor(s): Dorothy NampotaThe study was aimed at analyzing the effectiveness of the Industrial Relations Court of Malawi in labour dispute settlement. More specifically, it explored the extent to which the Court complies with legal provisions and set standards in its work; analyzed the labour dispute settlement process; explored the challenges the Court faces in fulfilli... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Kanyatula, Peter S.C. Supervisor(s): Tiyesere Mercy ChikapaThe main aim of this research study was to analyse the effects of employee wellness management on employee‘s performance in Telekom Networks Malawi (TNM) Plc from 2014 to 2017. There is a general shift in human capital management that has seen organizations‘ worldwide moving to the provision of preventive healthy living. In Malawi, TNM also join... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Kabanda, Victoria Supervisor(s): Mustaffa HusseinOver the past three decades, the manufacturing sector of Malawi has not been performing well despite contribution from both foreign and domestic investment. Hence, this study examined the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and domestic investment on manufacturing output in Malawi. Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model cointegration ... Read more
School: School of Arts, Communication and Design
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Banda, Penjani Msulira Supervisor(s): Jacob MazalaleThis study was aimed at examining head teachers’ leadership styles and performance of teachers in Community Day Secondary Schools (CDSSs) in Blantyre Urban. This was fulfilled through the following objectives: to determine the type of leadership styles prevalent in CDSSs, to investigate different ways in which the practiced leadership styles aff... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Sakwata, Dyce Henderson Supervisor(s): Dan BanikThe main objective of the study was to assess customers’ perception and satisfaction of the service quality and its effect on utilization of public services at Mlambe One Stop Centre in Mangochi. Data for the study was collected through questionnaires and interviews. The thesis follows a marketing perspective, paying special attention to custome... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Ngalande, Stella Kayuni Supervisor(s): Tiyesere Mercy ChikapaThis thesis aimed at assessing the effects of e-government on public service delivery. The thesis dwelt on effects of e-government on health service delivery in line with cost and quality of the public service. It adopted qualitative research design in collecting and analysing data. In-depth interviews (IDIs) and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) w... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Chavula, Jeremia Khomole Supervisor(s): Mustaffa Hussein