Donald Makoka, Ph.D
Executive Director & Senior Researcher
Qualifications:
- Ph.D (Development Economics), (University of Hannover, GERMANY);
- MA (Economics), (University of Malawi, MALAWI);
- BSoc. Sc. (Economics), (University of Malawi, MALAWI).
Brief background:
He has previously worked with ICRISAT-Malawi, the Centre for Development Research of the University of Bonn in Germany, the World Bank’s Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit, in Washington, D.C. (USA) and the Malawi Institute of Management. As a seasoned development researcher, he has conducted numerous evaluation studies for a range of donor-funded programmes in Malawi (GIZ, The World Bank; USAID; FCDO; Irish Aid; NORAD, etc); UN agencies (including WFP, UNICEF, UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA, and FAO) and international NGOs in Malawi.
analysis; Social protection, Ultra-poor graduation; climate resilience; tobacco control; poverty-health-development nexus.
Dewa, O., Makoka, D., & Ayo‐Yusuf, O. A. (2023).
Measuring community flood resilience and associated factors in rural Malawi.
Journal of Flood Risk Management, 16(1), e12874.
Dewa, O., Makoka, D., & Ayo-Yusuf, O. (2022). A
deliberative rural community consultation to assess support for flood risk
management policies to strengthen resilience in Malawi. Water, 14(6), 874.
Dewa, O., Makoka, D., & Ayo-Yusuf, O. A. (2021).
Assessing capacity and implementation status of the disaster risk management
strategy for health and community disaster resilience in Malawi. International
Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 12, 673-688.
Lencucha, R., Moyo,
T., Labonte, R., Drope, J., Appau, A., & Makoka,
D. (2020). Shifting from tobacco growing to alternatives in Malawi? A
qualitative analysis of policy and perspectives. Health
Policy and Planning, 35(7), 810-818.
Appau, A., Drope, J.,
Goma, F., Magati, P., Labonte, R., Makoka,
D., … & Lencucha, R. (2020). Explaining why farmers grow tobacco:
evidence from Malawi, Kenya, and Zambia. Nicotine and Tobacco Research,
22(12), 2238-2245.
Kongai, H.,
Mangisoni, J., Elepu, G., Chilembwe, E., & Makoka,
D. (2020). Smallholder orange farmer access to markets in Uganda.
African Crop Science Journal, 28(2), 267-278.
Li, Q., Magati, P.,
Lencucha, R., Labonte, R., Makoka,D., &
Drope, J. (2019). The economic geography of Kenyan tobacco farmers’ livelihood
decisions. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 21(12), 1711-1714.
Magati, P.,
Lencucha, R., Li, Q., Drope, J., Labonte, R., Appau, A. B., Makoka,D., Goma, F., & Zulu, R. (2018).
Costs, contracts and the narrative of prosperity: an economic analysis of smallholder tobacco farming livelihoods
in Kenya. Tobacco control.
Kongai, H., Mangison,
J., Elepu, G., Chilembwe, E., & Makoka,
D. (2018) Analysis of Citrus Value Chain in Eastern Uganda, African
Crop Science Journal 26(3); 417-431.
Lencucha, R., Reddy,
S.K., Labonte, R., Drope,J., Magati, P., Goma, F., Zulu, R., and Makoka, D. (2018) Global Tobacco
Control and Economic Norms: an Analysis of Normative Commitments in Kenya,
Malawi and Zambia, Health Policy and Planning, 33(3): 420-428.
Makoka, D., Drope, J., Appau, A., Labonte, R., Li, Q.,
Goma, F., … & Lencucha, R. (2016). Costs, revenues and profits: an economic
analysis of smallholder tobacco farmer livelihoods in Malawi. Tobacco control.
Giertz, A; Caballero,
R.J.; Galperin, D.; Makoka, D; Olson,
J.; German, G.M. (2015). Malawi – Agricultural Sector Risk Assessment.
Makoka, D. and Masibo, P.K. (2015) Is there a
Threshold Level of Maternal Education Sufficient to Reduce Child Malnutrition:
Evidence from Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, BMC Paediatrics
(2015), 15:96.
Nhamo, N., Makoka, D., and Tabi Fritz, O.
(2014) Adaptation Strategies to Climate Extremes among Smallholder
Farmers: A Case of Cropping Practices in the Volta Region of Ghana, British
Journal of Applied Science and Technology 4(1):198-213.
Makoka, D. (2013) The Impact of Maternal
Education on Child Nutrition: Evidence from Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, DHS
Working Paper 2013, No.84, Calverton, Maryland, USA: ICF Macro.
Masibo, P.K., and Makoka,
D. (2012) Trends and Determinants of Undernutrition among Young Kenyan
Children: Kenya DHS 1993, 1998, 2003 and 2008/09, Public Health Nutrition 2012,
pp 1-13.
Makoka, D., Munthali, K., and Drope J. (2011) Malawi
Tobacco Control Situation Analysis: In Drope J. (Ed). Tobacco Control in
Africa: People, Politics and Policies. ISBN 978-0-85728-783-0.
Makoka, D. (2009) Towards an Understanding of
Regional Disparities in Social Inequities in Maternal Health in Malawi,
African Health Sciences 9 (4): 295-302.
Makoka, D (2008) Risk, Risk Management and
Vulnerability to Poverty in Rural Malawi. CuvillierVerlag.
Makoka, D., Kambewa, P., and Kaluwa, B. (2007)
Demand for Private Health Insurance where Public Health Services are Free: The
Case of Malawi, Journal of Applied Science 7 (21): 3268 – 3273, 2007.
Makoka, D (2005) The Emergence of
Supermarkets in Malawi: Implications for Agrifood Markets and the Small Farmer,
in TAKANE, T. (Ed), Agricultural and Rural Development in Malawi: Macro and
Micro Perspectives, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan, A.R. Series
No.11/2005.