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This research study falls in the Health Information Systems (HIS) domain, with a specific focus on electronic HIS (eHIS), including the District Health Information System version2 (DHIS2). The goal of the study was to establish the technical and organizational issues affecting interoperability of eHIS with DHIS2, with key objectives being: to es... Read more
School: School of Natural and Applied Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2018
Author: Kulanga, Christopher Supervisor(s): Chipo KanjoThe overall objective of this study was to analyze the determinants of willingness of women to adhere to the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) in Malawi. The study used two sources of data, namely ART registers and primary data obtained from the in-depth interviews with randomly chosen respondents in 13 health centers in ... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2018
Author: Guys, Adam Chikapa Supervisor(s): Spy MunthaliThis study explored the experiences of non-specialist Social Studies teachers in implementing the subject in some selected Malawi secondary schools in Central East Education Division secondary schools. The study also sought to find out what non-specialist Social Studies teachers thought about their teaching of the subject; factors that affect th... Read more
School: School of Education
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2018
Author: Chiwala, Sebastian Jonathan Supervisor(s): Macloud SalanjiraThis study is a political economy analysis of anti-corruption reforms in Malawi. The study is significant because there is a corruption problem in Malawi stifling development and there is need for a deeper analysis of the factors that are causing corruption to rise. The study adopted a qualitative research design using analysis of documents, key... Read more
School: Not available.
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2018
Author: Mtuwa, Susan Anjimile Supervisor(s): Mustaffa HusseinState legitimacy confers authority over the state so that the decisions that it makes are accepted and are binding over its citizens. Without legitimacy, states would have to use force to rule, to coerce citizens to accept their decisions. While a number of studies have focused on state legitimacy, the study of government legitimacy is also impe... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2018
Author: Maseko, Christina Chisomo Supervisor(s): Boniface DulaniThis thesis aims at assessing the effects of outsourcing on provision of public services. Specifically, the thesis dwells on the effects of outsourcing on cost and quality of public services, the major goals of outsourcing. However, the thesis further analyses the effects of the conduct of officials engaged in making outsourcing decisions on the... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2018
Author: Chibwana, Paul Supervisor(s): Mustaffa HusseinStochastic Volatility models are more realistic than the Black-Scholes model for Vanilla option pricing, because risk neutrality assumption is avoided. We solve He ston’s stochastic volatility model, that has been solved using Monte-Carlo method which is computationally realistic in the third dimension only; and Finite difference methods that ar... Read more
School: School of Natural and Applied Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2018
Author: Chidzalo, PatrickThe research study is a critical study of The Implications of Priesthood of All Believers on Women Leadership in South Malawi Field of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church. It explores the general understanding of the Priesthood of All Believers and its implication on women‘s leadership in the South Malawi Field. It looks at the current status... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2018
Author: Kilembe, Alfred Ephraim Tuntufye Supervisor(s): Francois NsengiyumvaGood decision making in health sector is very important. As part of strengthening their national health management information systems (HMIS), governments are applying Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to enhance decision making in health management. In Malawi, Ministry of Health and its partners are facilitating the use of GIS. Successful us... Read more
School: School of Natural and Applied Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2018
Author: Chisakasa, Gloria Supervisor(s): Kondwani Godwin MunthaliThe ubiquity and convenience of the mobile phone have brought new opportunities in the delivery of financial services. One such opportunity is mobile payment for utility bills. Mobile payment allows customers to perform bill payment transactions through their mobile devices. This study aimed at evaluating customers’ satisfaction with mobile util... Read more
School: School of Natural and Applied Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2018
Author: Jika, Alima Mlomba Supervisor(s): Chipo KanjoThis study is an analysis of the effects of political influence on performance and career of bureaucrats in Malawi. It examines factors which influence political appointments; attitude of civil servants towards political appointments; how patronage political appointments interfere with the way civil servants execute their duties and how the prac... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2018
Author: Chagunda, James Monjeza Supervisor(s): Lewis DzimbiriMany countries that faced banking crisis have adopted explicit deposit insurance (EDI) systems as a way of promoting financial stability. However, country experiences also show that EDI systems have inherent disadvantages which can produce counterproductive effects such as promoting instability of financial systems. The chief disadvantage is mor... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2017
Author: Khunga, Chrispin K.C. Supervisor(s): Chikosa BandaMalawi’s dependency on fuel imports, combined with unstable local currency and fluctuations in world fuel prices poses a threat to short term macroeconomic advancement. Malawi has been using biofuel for transport since 1982. Currently an E20 policy is in place where petrol from the pump station is sold as a blend of 20 percent ethanol and 80 per... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2017
Author: Mhango, Charity Supervisor(s): Winfred MasanjalaUsing the aggregate production function, the study examines the main components of Malawi’s growth rates as well as elasticity of output growth with respect to sectorial factor inputs from Agriculture, Manufacturing and Services between 1980 and 2012. The study employs a parametric approach where Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) procedure is applied... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2017
Author: Mbedza, Pilirani Supervisor(s): Spy MunthaliThis study investigated the effect of Financial Market Legislation on capital market development in Malawi, with particular attention on the capital market development indices namely Stock Market Capitalization and Stock Market Liquidity. The study estimated two separate empirical models; the first to test the impact of the FML on Stock Market C... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2017
Author: Banda, Thandiwe Supervisor(s): Winfred MasanjalaOver the last decade, the telecommunication industry has been an emerging and important economic sector with immense impacts on the social and economic structures of Malawi. Despite some entry of new providers the industry is still concentrated and there are fears of collusive pricing. This study uses panel data for the period 2004 to 2014 for f... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2017
Author: Wittika, Alan Chimwemwe Supervisor(s): Ben KaluwaThe present study explores whether geographical factors play a significant role in the determination of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) countries. The study uses panel data of 15 SADC countries during the period of 2000-2011. To explore the determining factors, the study uses a one-step Sys... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2017
Author: Milner, Derrick WalterInformation Systems (IS) are very important for the provision of e-services by government, to Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDSs) and its citizens. There are several ways in which the public sector acquires its information systems and these include in-house development, buying off-the-shelf and outsourcing development among others. Outso... Read more
School: School of Natural and Applied Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2017
Author: Matewere, Florence Supervisor(s): Chipo KanjoThe Government of Malawi (GoM) is promoting expanded and improved quality and equity in access to health care including for those that are infected with Human Immune Virus (HIV). As one way of ensuring such equity in access, the GoM has a policy that supports people living with HIV to be accessing free antiretroviral therapy(ART) from different ... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2017
Author: Mainjeni, Dalitso Dickson Supervisor(s): Spy MunthaliInternet banking is relatively new technology in Malawi. The aim of this research was to investigate factors that affect the adoption of Internet banking by consumers in Malawi. The study was motivated by the fact that most Internet banking had introduced Internet banking services but adoption levels remain very low as evidenced by long queues i... Read more
School: School of Natural and Applied Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2017
Author: Kungwalo, Edmond Chiyembekezo Supervisor(s): J. Kumwenda