Malawi

Evaluation of rural water supply functionality

By Santiago Poveda
Country Facts

3 out of 4
Healthcare in
Poverty affects Malawians live Nearly 30% of
Malawi suffers
children ability to below the poverty 50.000 people die children are not
from shortage of
live a healthy live line and that is each year from able to start school
medical supplies
from the lack of surviving with less disease which is free in
as well as lack of
basic necessities than a pound a Malawi
doctors and nurses
day
Chikwawa Floods; Malawians Endemic Evil

Rainfall is
variable and
erratic

Deforestation Highland floods

affects runoff affect in low
areas
Project Purpose
The purpose of this project was to analyse and
evaluate the rural water supply functionality
in Malawi based on quantitative and
qualitative aspects of the water supply.

This project will also be focused in Chikwawa

water points to evaluate possible reasons
behind their low functionality.
Project Description

Stakeholders

Organizations Politics and

role approach Economics

Provide solutions to
Chikwawa population
first concern, access to
safe water, as well as
other aspects that will
contribute to a
sustainable water supply
functionality in Malawi

Data collection
and SDG6
interpretation

Technology
Summary Proposal Feedback

• Opening paragraph omits the project key issue

Peer
• Background content quite statistical
• Project purpose unclear
• Grammar and sentence structure need a proper
proofreading

Review
• Project does not state its benefits very clear
• Project methodology steps not clear
• Excess in quotation in methodology section
• Risk register components unclear
• Project timeline: Missing crucial deadlines
Summary Proposal Feedback

• Focus on Chikwawa water points that were not at risk of

Project flooding
• Looking at long term dataset
• Challenging salinity or water availability changes along the
years

Advisor • Meeting Mr. Jonathan Truslove / Dataset interpretation and

PhD research in Malawi
• Attending Mr. Donald Robertson lectures to learn how to
obtain data from mwater site.
Reflection to Key Feedback
• Opening Paragraph/Commencing with a general subject quotation put a reader into a broader context
• Statistical Content/Statistics are used to pass relevant information to the reader and the main reason to conduct a
research. Maybe too condense but all are relevant to the project itself
Peer Review/steps • Project Methodology steps/ It could have been relevant if I had understood the feedback explanations
taken • Grammar corrections / it is at the back of my mind for the dissertation report

• Mwater site/ Attending to Mr. Donald Robertson lectures plus an individual meeting to solve doubts
• Reviewing Mr Jonathan Truslove past papers to gain knowledge on Malawi main concerns
Project • Email Mr Jonathan Truslove to propose a meeting to discuss his PhD research and other relevant information
Advisor/steps • Struggling to obtain specific dataset for non risk flooding water points only
taken
 Project Timeline
Start date: 15/01/2020 Finish date: 20/04/2020 Duration (in weeks)

January February March April

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Further
Research
Reading

Project title
selection

Mwater portal
Data collection

Data
Interpretation

Start writing

Start
proofreading

Meet supervisor

Submission final
report

Project focus
final decision

Project
breakdown into
areas

Define project
objectives
HOPEFULNESS!!!!