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MEMP Papers

• An Overview of the Malawi Environmental Monitoring Programme’s Small Catchment Monitoring Component – with Recommendations to Meet Malawi’s National Environmental Monitoring Requirements
  
  
• Forest Monitoring in Malawi using Long Time Series Vegetation Index Data, 9/96: Paper published in Earth Observation Magazine describing the use of long time series data for forest monitoring
  
  
• Large Catchment Study
  
  

Nature

• Policies for Natural Resource Management: Summary paper prepared by the NATURE Policy Advisor for the USAID Mission Strategic Review
  
  
• Protected Areas: Their Role And Future In Malawi’s Land Budget: A memorandum submitted to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on Land Policy Reform by the Inter Agency Working Group on Protected Areas
  
  

GIS

• An International Perspective on the Development of Professional GIS Capacities, 6/98: Paper presented to the AGI, UK, using the Malawi GIS technology transfer experience as a case study

EIS

• Strategy for an Environmental Information System in Malawi
  
  
• Planning for Environmental Information Management in Malawi
  
  
• The Malawi National Environmental Information System, 4/94: second report summarizing the issues for developing a NEIS in Malawi.
  
  
• Malawi Environmental Information System (EIS) Developing a National EIS Strategy, 11/98: Draft Clark University report on an NEIS strategy for Malawi.
  
  
• Environmental Information System (EIS)
  
  

• MEMP Phase One (1993-1995) Final Report
  • Annex 1: Environmental Indicators and Change, Results of a Qualitative Survey of Smallholders in Four Catchments
  • Annex 2: Forestry Sample Plot Report
  • Annex 3: Report on the Socio-Economic Survey
  • Annex 4: Report and Field Guidelines: Rainfall, Runoff, Sediment Transport, and Water-Quality Monitoring Activities, Chilindamaji Catchment
  
  
• Environmental Report on the Impact of Market Liberalization in Malawi, prepared for USAID in response to the Initial Environmental Examination
  
  
• MEMP: Watershed Monitoring: End of Mission Report by Dr. Donald Slack, Watershed Monitoring Specialist.
  
  
• Final Report Area Sampling Frame Pilot Activity in Malawi: Report by Agriculture Assessments International Corporation.
  
  
• The Clark University Component, 3/98: Report detailing process on the Clark University component of the University of Arizona/Clark University cooperative agreement with impact indicators and challenges.
  
  
• Final Report: GIS Technology Transfer: An Ecological Approach, 1/96: Final report produced by Clark University on GIS technology transfer issues for USAID, Washington
  
  
• Sustainable Technology Transfer Under the MEMP, 2/94: report summarizing the objective of the MEMP in regards to burley and environmental monitoring and details the objectives and goals of GIS transfer program
  
  
• Development of a Rapid Assessment and Monitoring Technique for Soil Erosion in Malawi Based on Analysis of the Occurrence of Broken Ridges: Not available in PDF format. Click here for HTML Link
  
  
• Institutional Considerations in the Malawi Environmental Monitoring Program
  
  
• Evaluation of the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) and the Soil Loss Estimation Model for Southern Africa (SLEMSA) Under Malawai Conditions: A Case Study of Kamundi Catchment Near Mangochi: Not available in PDF format. Click here for HTML Link
  
  
• Recommendations for Future Research to Support: Erosion Hazard Assessment in Malawi
  
  
• Proposal for Research to Support Erosion Hazard Assessment in Malawi
  
  

• Introductory GIS Training:Report and Recommendations, 4/94: Clark University trip report summarizing April 1994 technical assistance with recommendations for future GIS training in Malawi
  
  
• Introductory and intermediate GIS Training: Report and observations, 8/94: Clark University summarizing July – August 1994 technical assistance on GIS training and agency GIS pilot project identification
  
  
• Progress Report: Technology Transfer under MEMP, 2/95: Clark University trip report summarizing January – February 1995 technical assistance, including: intermediate and advanced GIS training courses, and GIS pilot project development with participating agencies
  
  
• Trip Report: Advanced Training Decision Maker's Workshop Follow-up Activities, 8/95: Clark University trip report summarizing June – August 1995 technical assistance, including: advanced GIS training course, Decision Maker’s Workshop, and recommendations for continued GIS training in Malawi
  
  
• Fundamentals of GIS and Remote Sensing Training Course, 9/96: Clark University trip report summarizing September 1996 technical assistance to Bunda College on GIS training
  
  
• Trip Report, Clark University Activities, 8/97: Clark University trip report summarizing May – August 1997 in-country technical assistance
  
  
• Trip Report, Clark University, 5/98: Report summarizing technical assistance on the Shire River investigation, erosion modeling, and data standards
  
  
• Trip Report, Clark University, 12/98: Report summarizing technical assistance on the Shire River investigation, data standards, training-of-trainers, NEIS, and an initial assessment of impacts from MEMP’s environmental monitoring capacity building efforts
  
  
• Social Analysis and Research, 11/98: Clark University trip report summarizing October – November technical assistance, including, development of social analysis for Nsipe EPA
  
  
• Malawi Environment Monitoring Project: Nsipe EPA 4 Study, 1/99: Clark University trip report summarizing December – January technical assistance, including the social and information analysis study in Nsipe EPA
  
  
• MALAWI TRIP REPORT, November - December 1998 by Sam Drake
  
  
• Draft Report on the Effect of Market Liberalization On Erosion in the Nsipe Extension Planning Area (EPA), Malawi

Quarterly Reports

• 1996
  • Quarterly Report March-June 1996
  • Quarterly Report July-September 1996
  • Quarterly Report October - December 1996
• 1997
  • Quarterly Report January - March 1997
  • Quarterly Report March 1997-June 1997
  • Quarterly Report April - June 1997
  • Quarterly Report October - December 1997
• 1998
  • Quarterly Report for April to June 1998
  • Quarterly Report for January to March 1998
  • Quarterly Report for July to September 1998

• Malawi Environmental Monitoring Program, Phase II Annual Workplan: 1996-1997
• Summary Tables for Malawi Environmental Monitoring Program Phase II
• Second Annual Workplan for the Components 1997-1998
• Summary Tables for Workplan 1 April 1997 to 31 March 1998
• Third Workplan for the period 6/98-4/99