Disclosure Notice : Environmental and Social Management Plan for the construction of a Teaching Complex – SAVE Project
Disclosure Notice : Environmental and Social Management Plan for the construction of a Teaching Complex – SAVE Project
ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TEACHING COMPLEX AND ONLINE DISTANCE LEARNING HUB FACILITY AT THE KAMUZU UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES, LILONGWE
Disclosure Notice
The Government of Malawi is implementing the Skills for a Vibrant Economy (SAVE) project with support from the World Bank (International Development Association, hereinafter, the Association). SAVE is financed through a national resource envelope of US$100 million from the Association for a period of five years. The Project Development Objective is to increase equitable access to market
relevant skills in priority areas of the economy, especially for females and vulnerable youth. The project consists of the following four components:
Component 1: Supporting public higher education institutions in increasing equitable access to market relevant skills development programs; Component 2: Supporting Technical, Entrepreneurial, and Vocational Education and Training to increase equitable access to market relevant skills development
Component 3: Tertiary education student financing and system strengthening, project management, M&E, and communications Component 4: Contingency Emergency Response.
Therefore, this notice serves to notify interested or affected persons/parties and the general public of the Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP), which has been developed to respond to environmental and social risks arising from construction of the teaching complex and the online and distance (OdeL) learning hub facility at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Lilongwe Upper Campus. The construction of the OdeL Complex Hub Facility aims to improve academic excellence and access to market-relevant skills-development programs. Specifically, the project will increase student enrolment, improve the
quality of teaching and research, train high-level human resources, provide research and consultancy services, and disseminate knowledge for societal advancement. Construction activities for the project will involve building a two story teaching complex and an OdeL facility that will comprise lecture rooms, offices, pantries, and washrooms.
In conformity with both the national and World Bank environmental and social standards, and social standards, the project has been planned and designed in a manner that enhances potential positive environmental and social impacts and minimises potential negative impacts. This has been achieved through environmental and social assessments that led to the development of the Environmental and Social Management Plan. The environmental and social assessment identified and evaluated the potential environmental and social impacts that the project might generate, proposed measures to enhance the positive impacts and measures to mitigate the negative impacts, and developed a monitoring plan to check the implementation of the enhancement measures for positive impacts and mitigation measures for negative impacts.
Some of the positive impacts that the ESMP identified include increased student intake at the University; increased employment opportunities for skilled and non skilled workers, capacity building of academic staff, and non-academic staff members at the University, and improved teaching and learning at the University. Some of the negative impacts identified by the ESMP report included increased air pollution due to increased dust emissions, increased noise pollution due to construction works, increased soil and water pollution due to spillage of oils and fuels, increased accident incidences due to construction works, increased generation of solid waste, increased risk of illicit behaviour and crime, increased risk of HIV and AIDS, and transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STI); increased risk of safety of staff and students at the University during the construction phase; increased risk of disturbance of teaching and learning activities at the University; increased risk of gender-based violence, sexual harassment, and Sexual Exploitation and Abuse; increased risk of child and forced labour; and increased risk of construction work-induced traffic congestion.
The Environmental and Social Management Plan for the project site has been presented to the Malawi Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) and the World Bank and is now ready to be presented to stakeholders interested in any observations.
The report is now available for reference purposes at any time at the following locations:
• Malawi Environmental Protection Agency, Lingadzi House, and Robert Mugabe Street in Lilongwe
• Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Lilongwe Upper Campus, Off-Mzimba Drive, Opposite Kamuzu Central Hospital.
• Kamuzu University of Health Sciences website, www.kuhes.ac.mw;
To this end, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences proposes to engage stakeholders in the report. Stakeholders and interested persons/parties are invited to participate in the Public Disclosure process by examining the documents available as detailed above and submitting any observations no later than 19 July 2024 to:
Vice Chancellor
Kamuzu University of Health Sciences,
Private Bag 360,
Chichiri,
Blantyre 3
Email: vc@kuhes.ac.mw
Copy pmapulanga@kuhes.ac.mw
Phone Number: +265 1 810 911 / +265 1 811 286
We look forward to your participation in this public disclosure.
CONGRATULATIONS DR. NYANYIWE MBEYE!
CONGRATULATIONS DR. NYANYIWE MBEYE!
Join us as we extend our felicitations to Dr. Nyanyiwe Masingi Mbeye, Principal Investigator for the Global Evidence, Local Adaptation (GELA) project and Senior Lecturer in the School of Global and Public Health at the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS) for getting an award of a prestigious Low and Middle Income Countries Stipend to attend the Cochrane Colloquium from 4-6 September 2023 at the Queen Elizabeth II (QEII) Centre in London.
Under the theme ‘Forward together for trusted evidence,’ the colloquium aims to explore the challenges for the future around trustworthiness of healthcare data and information. Dr Nyanyiwe will be making an oral presentation on Global Evidence, Local Adaptation (GELA): Enhancing evidence-informed guideline recommendations for newborn and young
child health in three countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Nyanyiwe is currently the country Principal Investigator for the GELA project which is a three year European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) funded project that aims to enhance evidence-informed guideline recommendations for newborn and young child health in South Africa, Malawi and Nigeria. It aims to maximize the impact of evidence for Poverty-Related Diseases (PRDs) by increasing the capacity of decision makers and researchers to use global research to develop locally relevant guidelines for newborn and child health.
The project is led by Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council and will build on and add value to the large-scale program of child-health guideline development led by the World Health Organization (WHO), with adaptation and implementation led by the WHO Afro Regional Office, country offices and national ministries.
GELA Partners include the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Western Norway University of Applied Science, Stellenbosch University (South Africa), the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (Nigeria), Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (Malawi), Cochrane and the Stiftelsen MAGIC Evidence Ecosystem (Norway).
For More about GELA kindly follow this link: https://africa.cochrane.org/projects/GELA?fbclid=IwAR0ueuNpstTm4viNXef7dmu7iKhUnvlotziasGu4RNHgliC4nQtsqWV9VD0
2023 Public University Applications
The 2023 public universities selection applications are now open. The application period will run from Monday 3rd April to Tuesday 16th May 2023. From 2023 onwards, all applications for undergraduate generic admission will be done entirely online. No physical application forms will be used!
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Call for applications – Master of Health professions Education (MHPE) -March 2023 intake
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Postgraduate Applicants
Postgraduate applicants apply through Physical application. The application form can be downloaded from here and sent to The Registrar, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Private Bag 360, Chichiri, Blantyre 3, Malawi, (Attention: Admissions Office),. Or scanned copies of all the application documents can be sent to admissions@kuhes.ac.mw before the deadline indicated in the call for application advertisement. Submission should include Postgraduate application Form, Academic and Professional References, authenticated copies of certificates and transcript including translation where necessary, Curriculum Vitae (CV), Passport-size photo, Proof of funding and non-refundable application fee of $30.00.
