MALAWI ORGANISATIONS SURVEYED The following public organisations were surveyed: SUMMARY OF KEY FINDINGS 1. Blantyre City Council Category 1: Website analysis 2. Lilongwe City Council y Some websites are not up-to-date. 3. Malawi Electoral Commission y 4. Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority 5. Ministry of Agriculture 6. Ministry of Education 7. Ministry of Health 8. Ministry of Information and Digitalisation 9. Ministry of Local Government, Unity and Culture The culture of secrecy prevails as demonstrated by public institutions not electronically (using websites or social media platforms) or proactively disclosing general public information such as signed contracts, licences, permits, public-private partnerships arrangements, budgets and financial reports. Category 2: Requests for information 10. Mzuzu City Council 39 y Nine out of ten institutions surveyed did not provide the information requested. y Many public institutions have not established processes and procedures for handling obligations under the ATI Act. y Some public institutions use information officers and public relations officers interchangeably, making it difficult for them to distinguish information requests under the ATI Act and information demanding a public relations approach. y Nine of the ten public institutions surveyed have not published names, designations and other particulars of information officers, including physical and electronic addresses where an applicant may submit requests for information.