RATIONALE: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) puts a strong emphasis on child protection, with a commitment to end violence against children by 2030. To achieve all the SDGs by 2030, children must be put at the centre of the development agenda. As a country where over 59% of the population are children (under […]
RATIONALE: The economy of Malawi heavily relies on tobacco as the commodity contributed to 52% of the total export value for the country. The country is among the top ten producers of tobacco leaf in the world. It is also the top producer of burley tobacco, alongside Brazil and the United States (Otanez et al,
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RATIONALE: Food insecurity remains one of the key development challenges that Malawi and the southern Africa region face. Erratic rainfalls in the context of rain-fed agriculture, poor soils and rising costs of agricultural inputs are among the key causes of chronic food insecurity in many parts of the SADC region. The Malawi National Social Support
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RATIONALE: Rapid urbanization has brought about the growth of the informal sector in many parts of southern Africa, including Malawi. The non-agricultural informal sector is absorbing the many youths that are moving into the labour market which is not capable of absorbing them because of limited job creation opportunities in the formal sector. In Malawi,
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Abstract Tobacco control norms have gained momentum over the past decade. To date 43 of 47 Sub-Saharan African countries are party to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). The near universal adoption of the FCTC illustrates the increasing strength of these norms, although the level of commitment to implement the provisions varies widely. However,
