World Vision Malawi's Tiwerenge 365 gives rural reading clubs solar-powered tablet kits with sign-language and narrated digital books, reaching 3,500 children including …
Lilongwe, Malawi
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 24%92/100
UK charity The Turing Trust refurbishes donated computers with offline e-libraries for Malawi's schools. In its Northern Region, IT-lab access rose from …
Mzuzu, Malawi
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 24%92/100
CARE's Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) organise rural Malawian women into self-governing groups of 20–25. An IPA RCT found women's savings …
Lilongwe, Malawi
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 27%76/100
Malawi's first tech hub, mHub, delivers the UNDP-backed Growth Accelerator Challenge: six funding rounds since 2018 have co-financed 62 enterprises with over …
Malawi national programme deploying onecourse (onebillion) AI-adaptive tablets for Standards 1–4 literacy and numeracy across all 6,000 public primary schools by 2029. …
Lilongwe, Malawi
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 55%72/100
Since 2014, Malawi's donor-backed Innovation Challenge Fund has matched over 50 private firms' innovation costs, helping create more than 2,000 jobs and …
Lilongwe, Malawi
Good practice
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 45%70/100
A 2008–2009 randomised cash-transfer trial in Zomba, Malawi, paid school fees and stipends to 3,796 girls. Enrolment rose and early marriage/pregnancy fell …
Malawi's first one-stop centre (2012) co-locates paediatricians, police, social workers and counsellors. A 2018 mixed-methods study found 74% of families satisfied but …
Blantyre, Malawi
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 40%47/100
Opportunity International's Ulangizi chatbot merges generative AI with Malawi's Ministry of Agriculture guidance, giving farmers Chichewa voice, text and photo advice via …
A World Bank study tested whether AI-processed satellite imagery can substitute for costly household surveys in targeting Malawi's social safety net, finding …
Tilburg University used Malawi's Integrated Household Panel Survey with SHAP-explained ML models, finding sample-weighted LASSO and neural-network models reached 80.6% and 78.8% …
Lilongwe, Malawi
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 76%33/100
Malawi's Phase-I Shire River Basin Management Program (2012–2019) paid roughly 185 communities $1,500 each through a Community Environmental Conservation Fund to rehabilitate …
Blantyre, Malawi
Good practice
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 76%33/100
A randomised-trial payment scheme paid 1,450-2,800 Shire River Basin smallholders per season to adopt conservation agriculture, testing whether hydropower-linked avoided-sediment payments work; …
Balaka, Malawi
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 89%27/100
Malawi's Ministry of Education, Science and Technology worked with UNESCO from May 2025 to assess national AI readiness across policy, infrastructure, institutional-capacity …