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Vision
To be a centre of excellence for research, capacity building and outreach in water, sanitation, hygiene and appropriate technology development, for health.

Mission statement
To be a leader in generating knowledge, and through dissemination, inform policy and practice. WASHTED’s multidisciplinary approach aims to contribute significantly towards the achievement of the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through local and international collaboration.

Projects

SHARE: Sanitation and Hygiene Applied Research for Equity Phase II

Food safety and hygiene play an important role in reducing and controlling diarrhoeal disease. The SHARE phase II projec...

Malawi Small Town Environmental Sanitation Planning

The goal is to develop and validate a participatory planning methodology adapted to contexts typical for small town sett...

SCHI: Scotland Chikwawa Health Initiative

The Scotland Chikwawa Health Initiative (SCHI) is implementing the ‘Healthy Settings’ approach to develop model communit...

MREAP: Malawi Renewable Energy Acceleration Programme

The Scottish Government funded the £2.3m Malawi Renewable Energy Acceleration Programme (MREAP) from 2012-15. The object...

AIR: Academic Initiative for Renewables

The Academic Initiative for Renewables) project is aimed at developing capacity in renewable energy technologies by focu...

WATERSPOUTT: Water Sustainable Point Of Use Treatment Technologies

Solar water disinfection (SODIS) uses freely available solar energy to inactivate pathogens in water stored in transpare...

SOWATT: Selecting Organic WAste Treatment Technologies

Biodegradable organic solid waste (biowaste) is a valuable resource that is under-utilized and under-valued. The SOWATT-...

SOGERV: Sustainable Off-Grid electrification of Rural Villages

This Scottish funded project aims to reduce energy poverty in rural Chikhwawa district through the electrification of ho...

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Blog

WASHTED shines at UNC Water and Health Conference

WASHTED shines at UNC Water and Health Conference

23 October 2019

Research presentations from WASHTED researchers was well received at the recent UNC Water and Health...

Learn more about Banja la Ukhondo (The Hygienic Family)

Learn more about Banja la Ukhondo (The Hygienic Family)

29 August 2019

As we are now analysing the results of our recent Banja la Ukhondo (Hygienic family)...

On-going success of WATERSPOUTT project recognised by EU

On-going success of WATERSPOUTT project recognised by EU

14 August 2019

The WASHTED team were delighted to see a success story published on the EU website...

New publications on food safety and child feeding in Malawi

New publications on food safety and child feeding in Malawi

05 July 2019

Based on formative research from the Banja la Ukhondo (Hygienic family) project funded by the...

Contact information

The University of Malawi, The Polytechnic
Chichiri, Blantyre 3.
Malawi

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Phone: (+265)1 870 411