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• African Development Bank Group on Malawi (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
  Basic economic indicators and links to other "country operations" reports.
  
  
• Amnesty International on Malawi--Brief Profile (Washington, DC and New York)
  
  
• Chongoni Rock Art Area, Malawi UNESCO World Heritage (United Nations Educational, Scientifique and Cultural Organization, Paris, France)
  
  
• Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA): Malawi Home Page (Lusaka, Zambia)
  Basic country information, banking infrastructure, investment guidelines, and other major economic indicators.
  
  
• Commonwealth Secretariat: Malawi Parliamentary and Presidential Elections, 19 May 2009 -- Report of the Commonwealth Observer Group -- London, UK: The Secretariat, 2009. 47 pages in PDF format
  
  
• Malawi's Draft Constitution - 1994 (via University of Pennsylvania)
  -- See also: Malawi Law Commission below
  
  
• Council for Non-Governmental Organisations in Malawi (February 2003) (via Malawi SNDP, Blantyre, Malawi)
  The web site features a directory of member NGOs, general reports, information about council programs and related publications, and a members-only section.
  
  
• Democratic Progressive Party (Blantyre, Malawi)
  The official web site of the political party of Bingu wa Mutharika, current President of the Republic of Malawi.
  
  
• Demographic and Health Surveys: Malawi Indicators, Datasets, and Reports (2004) (Calverton, Maryland)
  
  
• Development Gateway Country Overview on Malawi (Washington, DC)
  A clearinghouse of links to a wide variety of organizational websites with economic data. Originally founded by The World Bank, the DG has been an "independent", donor-funded organization since 2001.
  
  
• Directory of Development Organizations: Malawi (2008) (Bert Wesselink, The Netherlands?) PDF format.
  
  
• ELDIS-Electronic Development and Environment Information System: Malawi Documents from the Web (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK)
  An indexing service provided by IDS. Papers are selected from all over the Internet on various topics relating to development, governance, human rights, and health.
  
  
• FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization on Malawi (Rome, Italy)
  • FAO Global Information and Early Warning System: FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission Special Report, June 2003
    See also: May 2002.
    
    
  • FAO Aquastat Programme -- Malawi, 2006
    A profile of water resources in Malawi. "The 'thirst' for water data is ever increasing and there is indeed considerable demand for data on rural water use from national governments and development agencies. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations initiated an activity in 1993 to meet this demand with particular focus on irrigation. This resulted in the AQUASTAT Programme, the objective of which is to generate rural water use data at country level in a systematic manner."
    
    
  • Malawi in the FAO Document Repository
  
  
• Government of the Republic of Malawi -- Official Site (Lilongwe, Malawi)
  • The Ministries (General)
  • Malawi Law Commission:
    --Includes 230 page final report of the Commission's review of the Constitution (August 2007)
  • Recent government publications: Malawi and the MDGs, Public Sector Investment, ICT for Development, Quarterly Economic Review, etc.
  • See also: Malawi, National Statistical Office below.
  
  
• Malawi Human Rights Commission (Lilongwe, Malawi)
  
  
• International Bureau of Education = Bureau de l'Education International: Malawi (UNESCO, Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Documents & resources on Malawi (reports and statistics)
  
  
• The International Monetary Fund: Malawi Country Info (Washington, DC)
  Summaries, full length reports, and recent news. Note: Some documents are in PDF format, requiring Adobe Acrobat.
  
  
• Malawi Business Coalition Against HIV/AIDS (MBCA) (Blantyre, Malawi)
  This website includes highlights of project activities and a list of members. "MBCA is an umbrella organisation accredited by the Malawi Government to primarily coordinate and enhance the Private Sector response to HIV and AIDS in Malawi. MBCA gets its financial support from the MBCA Membership fees and the National AIDS Commission. MBCA...is led by the Board of Directors elected amongst the private sector members themselves."
  
  
• Malawi Law Society (Lilongwe, Malawi)
  
  
• Malawi SNDP -- Sustainable Development Network Programme (Blantyre, Malawi)
  A government portal for government, business, and information services, funded by UNDP--United Nations Development Program, and executed by the National Research Council of Malawi.
  
  
• Malawi Web Page (University of Pennsylvania)
  
  
• MBendi AfroPaedia: Malawi (MBendi Information Services, South Africa)
  A basic profile of Malawi's economy, including its stock exchange.
  
  
• Malawi National Information and Communications Structure (2001) (Malawi, Ministry of Finance & Economic Development, Lilongwe)
  -- See also: National ICT Policy (July 2006) 65 pages in PDF format
  -- Plus: National Information and Communications Infrastructure for Sustainable Development in Africa: Malawi, 1999 (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  
  
• Malawi. National Statistical Office (Zomba, Malawi)
  • Basic statistical data, including HTML, JPG, and PDF downloadable reports from 2000; plus guides to sources. The site includes:
  • 2008 Population and Housing Census: Preliminary Results 35 pages in PDF format
    
    
  • MASEDA--Malawi Socio-Economic Database
    "...on the situation of human development in Malawi for use by government institutions, the donor community and civil society counterparts. MASEDA was created by UNICEF and the National Statistics Office in collaboration with Malawi’s development partners."
    
    
  • List of all data on line (since 1998)
  • Atlas of social statistics. (Online) -- Zomba, Malawi: NSO, 2002.
  • Malawi in figures 2002. (Online) -- Zomba, Malawi: NSO, 2002.
  • The determinants of poverty in Malawi 1998: an analysis of the Malawi Integrated Household Survey, 1997-98. (June 2001) -- Lilongwe: National Economic Council of Malawi ; Zomba: National Statistical Office of Malawi ; Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001. PDF format.
  
  
• Online News for Malawi
  • AllAfrica.Com on Malawi (AllAfrica Global Media, Ltd., Washington, DC)
    Selected current and recent news on Malawi from UN agencies and African news sources. Warning: a paid subscription is required to view news stories older than 30 days.
    
    
  • BBC News on Malawi (British Broadcasting Corporation, London, UK)
    • "Bingu wa Mutharika: Leading Man" (May 22, 2009)...plus links to information on political parties, the government, and previous news stories
    • Malawi Country Profile (May 2009)
    
    
  • Daily times, The. (Online) -- Blantyre, Malawi: BNL Ltd, 2005-
    The current edition of the electronic version of this daily newspaper from Malawi. The site includes articles from the more recent Sunday Malawi news and a recent sample of the Sunday times. There is no online back issues archive.
    
    
  • Nation, The. (Online) The Malawi Nation. -- Blantyre, Malawi: Nation Publications Ltd., 2006-
    The current issue of this daily electronic newspaper, with a small, searchable archive of two years of back issues.
  
  
• Policy Project: Malawi (Futures Group, Washington, DC)
  A summary of assistance activities in HIV/AIDS policies and other reproductive health policies in Malawi, with downloadable reports in PDF format.
  
  
• "Preserving the future for Lake Malawi" (Joshua Nyambose)
  Published in "African Technology Forum" (Online), 1997; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass.
  
  
• TEVETA Malawi (2007): Technical, Entrepreneurial and Vocational Education and Training Authority (Lilongwe, Malawi)
  --TEVETA Times (newsletter) and other publications
  
  
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Malawi (Lilongwe, Malawi; New York)
  • UNDP in Malawi (Lilongwe)
    
    
  • United Nations Development Programme: Human Development Index for Malawi (2005 data)
    
    
  
  
• UNFPA--United Nations Population Fund: Search for Malawi Country Indicators, Policy Developments, and Overview (New York)
  
  
• United States Agencies on Malawi (Washington, DC)
  • United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
    • USAID on Malawi -- Country Information
      
      
    • USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse (General)
      Search the entire database for downloadable (in PDF) reports on projects and studies on Malawi.
    • USAID--Famine Early Warning System Network: FEWS NET Malawi Center
      Current news and analysis of the food security situation in Zimbabwe -- read online or download as a PDF files; plus links to other FEWS NET resources.
    • USAID Office of Sustainable Development: "Unrecorded cross-border trade between Malawi and Neighboring Countries," by I.J. Minde and T.O. Nakhumwa. PDF file. SD publication / Technical paper ; no. 90 (September 1998).
    
    
  • United States. Census Bureau. Foreign Trade Statistics:
    -- US-Malawi Trade Balance, 1992--
    -- US International Trade Statistics: Malawi, 1996-- (Search)
    
    
  • United States. Central Intelligence Agency. World Factbook: Malawi (2009)
    
    
  • United States. Department of State
    • Malawi Country Commercial Guide (PDF files): 2001 | 2000
    • Malawi Country Report on Human Rights Practices: 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
    
    
  • United States. Commercial Service: Recent documents on Malawi economy: includes 2007 Commercial Guide. (International Trade Administration)
  
  
• University of Malawi Home Page (Zomba, Malawi)
  • Centre for Social Research
    This site includes information about research programmes and lists of publications; plus: "Gender and women's studies in Malawi: a national database, 1980-2000." Prepared by Paul Kakhongwe, Dec. 2000. -- Zomba, Malawi: University of Malawi, CSR, 2000.
  
  
• "Women's organizing abilities: two case studies of Kenya and Malawi" by Mario I. Aguilar and Laurel Birch de Aguilar. (Organizing for Development--An International Institute, Washington, DC)
  -- Focus on northern Kenya and central Malawi.
  
  
• The World Bank on Malawi (Washington, DC)
  • The World Bank in Malawi, 1999-
    A brief country profile, project reports, news, and related links.
  • Malawi - the World Bank and the agricultural sector (May 1998) OED Impact Evaluation Report ; no. 17898. -- Washington, DC : Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank, 1998. 55 pages in PDF format
  • Two water projects in Malawi (May 1997) OED Précis ; no. 146. -- Washington, DC : Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank, 1997.
  • Smallholder-led growth in Malawi (March 1997) OED Précis ; no. 140. -- Washington, DC : Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank, 1997.