Making Noise: Media Monitoring Report
Gladys Chiwinja, Samuel Grem, Innocent Katsache, Willards Muwawa, Edgar Ntulumbwa, Jessica Noske-Turner
March 27, 2025
Case Studies and Reports
Para sport has been increasingly covered in the mainstream media in Malawi, boosted by the ‘Making Noise’ campaign around the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games as part of the Para Sport Against Stigma project. Making Noise seeks to realise the potential of para and Paralympic sport as a platform for social change.
A media monitoring report by Harriet Kachimanga of Malawi Council for Disability Affairs (MACODA) showed a significant increase in the number of news stories about para sport in 2024. This media analysis report aims to build on the MACODA report, and shares findings from a two day workshop held on 27-28 November 2024 involving perspectives from the Department for Disability, Malawi Sports Council, a storytelling NGO and Para athletes.