Chintheche,18th February, 2023: URAC organized a tree planting exercise with pupils from Uhoho and Msomba primary schools and planted 200 acacia tree species along the M5 Road between Lisambi Bus stop and Luweya Bridge in Nkhata-Bay district. Speaking at the start of the exercise Senior Village Headman Chenyentha commended URAC for the initiative saying “the...
By: Rachael Josiah, Intern at URAC. Email: rachealious203@gmail.com As part of the ACIAR funded research project of Urban Food Loss in Mzuzu City, Mzuzu University and URAC organized a one-day workshop to train women traders in market by-laws and cooperative formation during which a city wide market committee was established. The training, held at Mphatso...
Dar es Salaam 16-20 January, 2023: The University of Dar es Salaam of Tanzania and the Technical University of Munich of Germany organised the Sustainable Construction (SusCon) workshop for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to discuss how to build resilient and sustainable cities by finding a compromise between ecological, social and economic needs. The workshop, held at...
DRIVERS OF FOOD LOSSES IN MZUZU CITY, MALAWI Blog by: Tiwonge Baloyi tiwongebaloyi@gmail.com & Faith Manda fhmanda@gmail.com A 2011 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) publication established that approximately one third of the amount of food produced annually in the world is lost in the initial phases of the food supply chain. With countries striving to...
Women and Market Governance in Mzuzu City, Malawi Blog by Faith Manda, faithmanda@yahoo.com In this blog I am going to share how gender is a factor in market governance practices in Mzuzu City in Malawi. The practices were learned through implementing a two-year research project on fresh food losses underway in Mzuzu City by the...
Graduate Internship Positions 2023 Two positions available: (a) Mining and Mineral Rights Advocacy Intern (b) Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Awareness Intern. Both will be based at Tukombo in Nkhata Bay but will have regular visits to Chintheche Town. These positions are available from 3rd January 2023 and will be one year renewable contracts. For...
URAC HOSTS LO-ACT WORKSHOP ON CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION Mzuzu, Malawi, 13-14th September 2022: URAC hosted a 2-day workshop to discuss current local level adaptation practices and gaps to climate change in and around Mzuzu City. The workshop was organized jointly by University of Sheffield’s Urban Institute and UCL’s Development Planning Unit (DPU) and URAC under...
URAC JOINS MUSICIAN MACHULUKA IN CHOLERA PREVENTION AWARENESS CAMPAIGN URAC joined hands with prominent musician Machuluka the Tonga Bits king in a two-day cholera prevention awareness campaign on 22 and 23 August, 2022. Machuluka, who is well known for his songs Zowala za Mwana Wangu, Ndaziya yiwi, and Uweliyepu Mubulu, among others, Machuluka – Malawi-Music.com...
African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC) URAC joined the ACRC team to conduct research in Lilongwe City. The aim of the research project is to generate insights and evidence that can assist in improving the living conditions and services especially for disadvantaged communities. The ACRC study will use city of systems (CoS) and political settlements (PS)...
URAC Distributes Flood Relief Items in Mzuzu City URAC recently distributed an assortment of relief items to Mzuzu university students and residents of Zolozolo West Ward who had been affected by the 26 November 2021 flash floods. The relief items were distributed to students on 16th December while Zolozolo families received the items on 24th...