Against the backdrop of the government's overall aim to provide equitable access to safe and adequate learning spaces to all students, the underlying objective of this midline survey is to provide information for an effective and efficient implementation of the Malawi Education Sector Improvement Project (MESIP). This midline survey is part of the independent school survey, the Malawi Public Schools Survey (MPSS) initiated by the Government of Malawi, conducted in three rounds. This will inform the relevant stakeholders on the progress towards achieving the project's expected outcomes and the results can be utilized to formulate policies and improvement in the quality of education in Malawi.

The baseline and an initial round of midline data have already been collected. After successfully collecting the Midline data in 136 schools in 2019, IPOR has again been contracted to collect the Endline evaluation data from 700 primary schools in Malawi. The first phase f the project has been completed after our 11 teams visited and collected the data from 345 primary schools. The next phase will commence in September 2021.

The survey is being implemented in a total of twelve districts in Malawi namely: Chikwawa , Thyolo, Mulanje, Machinga, Mangochi, Dedza, Dowa, Kasungu, Lilongwe, Nkhotakota, Mzimba and Rumphi.