These examples highlight research, practice and scholarship from the professional experience of Nthaka's team. They illustrate our expertise in participatory research, environmental governance and critical knowledge production.
These examples reflect relevant team experience and are not necessarily projects contracted through Nthaka.
MALAWI | PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH AND LEARNING
Participatory Monitoring and Learning
Participatory monitoring and learning work in Lilongwe and Phalombe used methods including storytelling, drawing elicitation and video diaries to connect research with participants' experiences. The work involved locally facilitated learning processes and generated scholarly publications and practice-oriented knowledge products.
What this illustrates: The value of participatory approaches for producing evidence that takes community experiences seriously.
NKHOTAKOTA, MALAWI | ENVIRONMENT AND GOVERNANCE
Community-Led Fisheries Governance
This work engaged fisheries communities and market actors through participatory research, dialogue and conflict-resolution processes. It explored environmental governance, local knowledge and the development of more equitable approaches to managing resources and shared technologies.
What this illustrates: How community participation, local knowledge and institutional dialogue can inform environmental governance.
SCHOLARSHIP | GENDER AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
Decoloniality in Gender Discourse and Praxis
The 2025 edited volume Decoloniality in Gender Discourse and Praxis: A View from the Margins brings together Global South scholarship to critically examine dominant approaches to gender, knowledge and development. It highlights the importance of alternative perspectives and decolonial approaches to knowledge production.
What this illustrates: The contribution of critical scholarship to rethinking gender, representation and whose knowledge shapes development debates.
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RESEARCH, ADVISORY & IMPLEMENTATION
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African-led research, learning and advisory practice.
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Selected Work
These examples highlight research, practice and scholarship from the professional experience of Nthaka's team. They illustrate our expertise in participatory research, environmental governance and critical knowledge production.
These examples reflect relevant team experience and are not necessarily projects contracted through Nthaka.
MALAWI | PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH AND LEARNING
Participatory Monitoring and Learning
Participatory monitoring and learning work in Lilongwe and Phalombe used methods including storytelling, drawing elicitation and video diaries to connect research with participants' experiences. The work involved locally facilitated learning processes and generated scholarly publications and practice-oriented knowledge products.
What this illustrates: The value of participatory approaches for producing evidence that takes community experiences seriously.
NKHOTAKOTA, MALAWI | ENVIRONMENT AND GOVERNANCE
Community-Led Fisheries Governance
This work engaged fisheries communities and market actors through participatory research, dialogue and conflict-resolution processes. It explored environmental governance, local knowledge and the development of more equitable approaches to managing resources and shared technologies.
What this illustrates: How community participation, local knowledge and institutional dialogue can inform environmental governance.
SCHOLARSHIP | GENDER AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
Decoloniality in Gender Discourse and Praxis
The 2025 edited volume Decoloniality in Gender Discourse and Praxis: A View from the Margins brings together Global South scholarship to critically examine dominant approaches to gender, knowledge and development. It highlights the importance of alternative perspectives and decolonial approaches to knowledge production.
What this illustrates: The contribution of critical scholarship to rethinking gender, representation and whose knowledge shapes development debates.
NTHAKA
RESEARCH, ADVISORY & IMPLEMENTATION
Rooted in Knowledge. Growing Possibilities.
African-led research, learning and advisory practice.
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