Through the Malawi Parliament Enhancement Project(MPEP), the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) has been supporting the Parliament of Malawi to finalize a report on the motion to have Malawi parliament operate independently in its oversight role. The motion was first moved by Honorable Boniface Kadzamira in 2015 and finally presented and adopted by the House on 13thDecember 2018.
Last June, AFIDEP joined a meeting in London convened by the Wellcome Trust for its grantees to brainstorm on the Trust’s new policy engagement programme. Although the Trust is a major funder of health research, it has not put much focus or investments in policy engagement efforts to facilitate research uptake by policymakers. However,
The Networks for Policy Engagement workshop, co-hosted by AFIDEP and the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Centre (MLW), marked an exciting two days of sharing passion for, lessons on, and commitment to the field of evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM). Taking place in Lilongwe, Malawi 25-27 February, the workshop brought together a dynamic, multidisciplinary group of research
