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On the 24th and 25th November, 2017, College of Medicine, a constituent college of The University of Malawi held a 21st Research Dissemination Conference. The theme of the conference was “Driving the next decade of research in Malawi: Achieving health-related Sustainable Development Goals”. The conference arranged a competition for best undergraduate and best postgraduate presenters. Our WASHTED fellow, Save Kumwenda emerged the best PhD presenter and received a cash price of MK50, 000.00 and a trophy. Save presented the findings of his last objective of his PhD research entitled “Inactivation of pathogens in Fossa Alternas (FAs) and Urine Diverting Dry Toilets (UDDTs).
The Conference was attended by both local and international delegates from various universities and research institutions including WASHTED, Malaria Alert Centre and Wellcome Trust.
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The toilet was further celebrated on the 18th of November. The guest of honour, councilor Gertrude Chilambo, primary school students and different WASH practitioners walked from the clock tower in Blantyre to the Nyambadwe primary school ground in Ndirande. The walk was spiced up by the performance of the Malawi Prison Band who performed different songs all throughout the journey with primary school students carrying play cards with different sanitation related messages.
At the ground, different organizations mounted their pavilion displays. The guest of honour and others went through the pavilions to appreciate what’s being done in the WASH sector. Activities in line with WASH were also conducted by primary school students and those that did well were given prizes like soap and hand-washing buckets.
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The theme for this year`s World Toilet day celebrations was “Where does our poo go?”. Malawi`s World Toilet Day celebrations were kick started by a one-day knowledge exchange symposium for sanitation and hygiene promotion which was organized by The Center for Water, Sanitation Health & Appropriate Technological Development (WASHTED) at the University of Malawi – The Polytechnic, in partnership with the Malawi Government and Water Environmental Sanitation Network (WESNET), an umbrella body for all WASH NGOs in Malawi. The experts in WASH spent their time looking at the route that poo takes from containment to use/disposal.
Experts in each stage of the sanitation service chain, (Containment, Collection, Transportation, Treatment, and Reuse/Disposal) made brief presentations and shared their experiences in sanitation. The word that echoed all through the symposium “resource”: in reference to the fact that there is money to made in the sanitation business. The knowledge exchange was further aided by pavilions which were mounted by different organizations at the event.
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Have you ever thought about it? It’s amazing how once we flush the toilet or drop our poo in the latrine hole we forget about it. WASH practitioners all over the world were answering this question during the World Toilet Day annual commemoration. WASHTED joined the world in this commemoration by gathering WASH practitioners on the 17th of November 2017 at the Polytechnic University of Malawi for a knowledge exchange Symposium. We concluded the next day with a public event with a parade from the clock tower in Blantyre to Nyambadwe primary school ground in Ndirande.
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Nine WASHTED researchers took part in the National Research Dissemination Conference which took place at Nkopola Conference Centre on the 28th and 29th September 2017.
Organised by the National Commission for Science and Technology, WASHTED Associates, including affiliated Masters students, presented on a range of areas in a packed programme including:
· Sustainability, needs assessments and remote monitoring of renewable energy systems
· Healthy settings approach
· Formative research from SHARE Integrated WASH and Hygiene of Weaning Foods
· Community-Led Total sanitation
· Training development for renewable energy programmes
· Solid and clinical waste management
It was great to network and share our research over the 2 day programme.
Read more link:
https://www.ncst.mw/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/FINAL-BOOK-OF-ABSTRACTS.pdf
