School pupils during a beach clean up excercise at Chigumbuli Chintheche, 2019

Our Services

  • Action-oriented applied research
  • Formative and baseline studies and evaluations
  • Data conceptualization, processing, analysis and interpretation
  • Project monitoring and evaluation
  • Grants management
  • Student affiliation and supervision
  • Capacity building and applied training
  • International and national internship hosting

Dr Mtafu Manda (Centre) Dr Holger Keppel (right) with SES expert, Mzuzu, 2019

URAC provides research, training, and advocacy services in the following thematic areas:

  1. Urban governance and the right to the city
  2. Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and health governance
  3. Environment & greenspaces 
  4. Livelihoods, community and social empowerment 
  5. Disaster risk management, 
  6. Democratic governance and citizenship   
  7. Urban informality: housing, street trade, transport and food systems 
  8. Land and land resources governance,
  9. Gender mainstreaming,
  10. International / local migration, refugee and urban economies
  11.  Rural – urban interactions  

OUR AREAS OF EXPERTISE


TOWN AND CITY PROFILES

You can read short description of towns and cities in Malawi

Different experts write on topics that form the maim debates about urban centres and life in cities:

URBAN HEALTH

URBAN GOVERNANCE AND CITIZENSHIP

URBAN FOOD SYSTEMS

URBAN POVERTY

URBAN INFORMAlity

Housing, street trade etc

URBAN MOBILITY

URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL AND GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE

REFUGEE AND URBAN ECONOMIES

URBAN PLANNING AND PROPERTY TAXATION

URBAN CULTURE

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MIGRATION TRENDS

MORE URBAN BASED RESEARCH