The early days of the month of June (3rd and 4th 2017) saw the Malawi Deliberative Polling (DP) exercise take place in Nsanje District. The DP is an innovative citizens’consultative process that assesses the representative opinions of a population, both before and after it has had a good chance to thoroughly discuss challenges confronting their communities, and identifying appropriate solutions to them. The DP respondents in Malawi were from TA Ndamera (Upland) and TA Nyachikadza (low land). The Deliberative Polling (DP) exercise was facilitated by a team from Stanford University under the leadership of Prof. James Fishkin, Professor of Communication and Political science at Stanford University. These worked closely with Makerere University's RAN Southern Africa Resilience Innovation Lab (RILab) team and the network plus team in Malawi led by Prof. Lekan Oyo Yusuf and Dr. Donald Makoka as well as the RAN research officer Christine Muhumuza as the RANSec representative on the activity.

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