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The results suggested that a significant number of villages in Chikwawa district were far from key services and the general state of the road network in most villages was poor. The main contribution of this thesis is in Chapters Six, Seven and Eight.
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In addition, a series of bivariate analysis were performed to investigate the trade-offs between school attendance and (i) farm tasks and (ii) water collection. Using SPSS version 19.0 (SPSS, 2010), a series of binary and ordinal logistic regression models were performed to estimate the influence of distance, local topography, state of road network and socio-economic characteristics on (i) school attendance and educational performance and (ii) rural health care seeking behaviour. The study employed GIS, TransCAD 4.8 (Caliper Corporation, 2005) tool to estimate distances from the villages to the nearest key facilities. The analysis of this thesis is based on household survey data from a sample of 989 households across thirty villages in a rural district of Malawi. The focus of this study is to contribute to point (1), and in particular to proper understanding of point (2). From a policy perspective, to ensure that resources are properly targeted, it is important to identify (1) communities that are most deprived in terms of their access to key facilities and (2) how the levels of accessibility affect the health, social and economic well being of the local communities. Therefore, provision of effective interventions to reduce the lack of access to basic facilities/services would go a long way to improving peoples' well being in rural areas. Moreover, the current literature acknowledges that the lack of accessibility to basic goods and services deepens the isolation of rural households, undermining their opportunities to access socio - economic and basic services. It has also been acknowledged that identification of locations with poor accessibility to key services is an important first step in the development of appropriate social and health policy interventions. It has been recognized that spatial pattern of activities and how they are connected by the transportation system determines the accessibility of a particular location.Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.