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Malawi is one of the smaller countries in Sub-Saharan African and home to 16 million people. An estimated 35% of the Malawian population does not have access to an improved form of sanitation, of which 4%, the majority of which reside in rural areas, practices open defecation (WHO/UNICEF, 2015).

SHARE worked in Malawi since 2010 and conducted research on a range of issues including: ecological sanitation, urban sanitation, handwashing with soap, menstrual hygiene management (MHM), faecal sludge and solide waste management, and private sector participation. We also supported the first ever sector-level meeting on MHM in Malawi between civil society, researchers and national government, and co-convened a dynamic radio debate that engaged researchers, government officials, policy makers, practitioners and members of the public in discussions on sanitation and hygiene delivery. 

From 2015, SHARE's work in Malawi focussed on the theme of WASH and food hygiene in rural areas.

Resources

Hygienic Family community dissemination brief
14th IFEH World Congress on Environmental Health - Event Report
14th IFEH World Congress on Environmental Health - Presentations
Adopt or Adapt: Sanitation Technology Choices in Urbanizing Malawi
Annual Report 2016-2017
Applying outcome mapping to plan, monitor and evaluate policy influence; learning from the SHARE research consortium
Behaviour Change for WASH: Policy Brief
Building City-Wide Strategies from the Bottom Up
Building City-Wide Strategies from the Bottom Up: Malawi Situational Analysis
City-Wide Sanitation Project Situation Analyses
Developing a Contextually Appropriate Integrated Hygiene Intervention to Achieve Sustained Reductions in Diarrheal Diseases
Drinking water quality and human dimensions of cholera patients to inform evidence-based prevention investment in Karonga District, Malawi 
Ecological Sanitation in Malawi
Engaging Participants in Community-based Research - Policy Brief
Estimating the Health Risk Associated with the Use of Ecological Sanitation Toilets in Malawi
Estimating the Potential Impact of Sanitary Child Stool Disposal
Faecal Sludge Management in Peri-Urban Malawi: Investigating the Policy Gaps
Financing Universal Access to Sanitation – Lessons From Four African Cities
Floating Toilets Challenge - Poster
How Collective Action Strategies of the Urban Poor Can Improve Access to Sanitation
Identification of Funding Mechanisms for Private Sector Participation in the Provision of Rural Household Sanitation Facilities in Nkhata Bay District
Identification of the Potential Opportunities, Barriers, and Threats Within the Sector in Taking Up Sanitation as a Business: Rural Sanitation in Nkhata Bay District (Malawi)
Impact of Community-Based WASH and Food Hygiene Interventions on Diarrhoeal Disease Incidence in Children Under Five
Informally vended sachet water: handling practices and microbial water quality
Integrating WASH and Food Hygiene
Integrating WASH and Food Hygiene - Formative Research Brief
Integrating WASH and Food Hygiene - Progress Report
Malawi Sanitation and Hygiene Research Symposium - Presentations
MHM Absorbents in Malawi - Infographic
Moving up the sanitation ladder with the help of microfinance in urban Malawi
Outcome mapping and research into use: analysing monitoring data for effective strategies
Paving the Way to Scaling Up EcoSan
Policy brief: Improved health and behaviour through integration of food hygiene and WASH
Private Sector Participation in the Delivery of Sanitation and Hygiene Services
Productive School Sanitation in Mzuzu Urban and Mzimba North
Promoting gender equality through improved monitoring, capacity building and research partnerships: reflections from the SHARE programme
Researcher's Guide to Good Practice in Community Health Research
Risk Factors Associated with Feeding Children under 2 Years in Rural Malawi – A Formative Study
Sanitary Pad Making and School Absenteeism
Sanitation and Hygiene in Blantyre
School Menstrual Hygiene Management in Malawi: More Than Toilets
SHARE Research in Malawi
Sharing reflections on inclusive sanitation
Sharing Reflections on Inclusive Sanitation
The Missing Ingredients: Are Policy-Makers Doing Enough on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene to End Malnutrition?
Toilets Are Not Enough
Toward Complementary Food Hygiene Practices among Child Caregivers in Rural Malawi
Urban Sanitation & Hygiene: A Story of Change
WASH and Food Hygiene: Reducing Diarrhoea in Children Under Five in Malawi
WASH and Women: A Story of Change
Water and Sanitation Action Research in the City of Blantyre: Community Mapping Towards Inclusive Development
Why Financial Lending Institutions Are Not Willing to Provide Services to the Private Sector for Rural Sanitation and Hygiene
Why Menstrual Hygiene Management?

BUILDING KNOWLEDGE. IMPROVING THE WASH SECTOR.

SHARE contributes to achieving universal access to effective, sustainable and equitable sanitation and hygiene by generating evidence to improve policy and practice worldwide.