What works in Malawi
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Evidence snapshot for Malawi
The evidence shows Malawi implementing three major national programmes with measurable development outcomes. The Malawi Digital Foundations Project brought nearly 7 million Malawians online for the first time and reduced wholesale internet prices by 98%, while training over 19,000 youth at Tech Hubs with $72.4M World Bank funding (2017–2024). CARE's Village Savings and Loan Associations increased rural women's savings by 34% and monthly business profits by 24% at $7.01 per household, with rigorous RCT evidence across 15,221 households. BEFIT's AI-adaptive literacy programme is scaling onecourse tablets across primary schools, with Malawi RCTs showing effect sizes of 0.34–0.37 in literacy, and aims to reach all 6,000 public primary schools serving 3.8 million children by 2029.
Drawn from: Malawi Digital Foundations Project (DIGMAP) – National Digital Infrastructure, Skills and Connectivity Programme · CARE Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) — Women's Financial Inclusion and Economic Empowerment in Rural Malawi · BEFIT — Building Education Foundations through Innovation & Technology: AI-adaptive foundational literacy and numeracy for Malawi's primary schools · AI for Early Warnings for All — Malawi's Pilot to Integrate the 'Bris' AI Weather Model into National Forecasting · Trees of Hope — Community Agroforestry Carbon (Malawi)
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evidence of learning impact +0.673
Evaluation evidence +0.67
Efficiency +0.483
Documented learning +0.276
Demonstrated reach +0.265
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +0.262
Effectiveness +0.189
Sustainability (ongoing) +0.186
Impact on gender equality +0.173
Evaluated outcomes +0.163
Transparency, fairness & accountability +0.12
Equity & inclusion +0.11
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +0.098
Transparency, ethics & data protection +0.083
Weaknesses
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced -0.099
Teacher capability & pedagogy -0.147
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -0.205
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -0.216
Evidence of impact / measured public value -0.265
Curator validation -0.75
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