The Institute of Public Opinion and Research (IPOR) in collaboration with the College of William and Mary in Virginia, USA, Brigham Young University in Utah, USA, the University of Michigan, Michigan, USA is implementing Livelihood of Women Program (LWP) in Malawi titled Catalyzing Cooperative Intra-Household Mobile Technology Use. The project is funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and targets 1500 married women in Blantyre rural and urban. The core purpose of the project is to test whether women’s ownership of a smartphone would improve their livelihood through access to market information, health information and mobile money transactions. A similar study was conducted in Tanzania and it was discovered that smartphones have a potential to improve women’s socio-economic status. In Malawi, IPOR and its research partners launched the LWP in 2020  and the program is expected to phase out in 2023. In this project IPOR was tasked to conduct baseline, midline and endline evaluations. So far IPOR has successfully done baseline and midline evaluation of the project. Baseline evaluation involved physical recruitment of participants followed by phone surveys to screen the participants in order get eligible beneficiaries for the project. Beneficiaries were supposed to be married women without a smartphone or access to it at the time of recruitment. At baseline IPOR distributed smartphones and  trained 400 couples and 400 individual women  on how to use a  smartphone and its advantages.  Another group of 400 women were given cash equivalent to the smartphone (K56 000)  to see if they could acquire a phone and prosper like their counterparts. Again about 300 married women were put on control group and were contacted once  during baseline and did not receive cash, phone or training. For the midline evaluation, IPOR conducted face to face interviews with the treatment group and similar exercise is expected to be carried to both control and treatment at endline evaluation. In addition, IPOR worked with Girls Empowerment Network (GENET) to recruit and train facilitators for the project.