Managing Risk for a Safer Built Environment in Malawi - Building Regulatory Capacity Assessment

This report follows the Building Regulation for Resilience (BRR) Program’s Building Regulatory Capacity Assessment (BRCA) methodology. The Assessment covers three main components:

1.  National legal and institutional framework;
2.  Building code development and maintenance;
3.  Local implementation.

Beyond these three components, building regulatory frameworks also rely on an ecosystem of supporting elements such as insurance markets, mortgage finance systems, frameworks for secure land tenure, and property and tax regimes. These elements are beyond the scope of this report since this report maintains its focus on the core aspects of land-use and construction regulation of specific relevance to new and existing buildings and their immediate environment.