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Malawi Receives $12 Million to Respond to the Global Food Crisis

Efilida Chimalira displays groundnuts she harvested in 2022

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As part of the recently announced $2.76 billion in U.S.

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Parliamentarians, Ministry Officials, And Media Appreciate Progress On U.S.-Supported Construction Of Rural Secondary Schools

USAID Education Office Director Christine Veverka (L) addresses the Parliamentarians and Ministry of Education officials during the tour.

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The Secondary Education Expansion for Development (SEED) Project is a $90 million partnership between the GoM and the U.S. government (USG) to increase access to secondary schools and reduce HIV risk for adolescent girls and young women.

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USAID Launches New Health Programs to Improve Nutrition and Eliminate Malaria

Minister of Health Khumbize Chiponda and USAID Acting Mission Director Natalie Thurnberg at the launch event

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The U.S. Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is helping to strengthen Malawi’s health sector with the launch of four new nutrition support and malaria elimination programs. The projects carry a combined value of up to $127 million (approximately 130 billion MWK) over five years.

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Press Release: USAID Ramps Up Strategy to Advance Malawi 2063

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USAID is proud to partner with the Government of Malawi (GOM) and local and international organizations on a shared development agenda to pursue “an inclusively wealthy and self-reliant nation.” USAID recently launched its five-year Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS), which supports Malawi 2063 and focuses USAID’s work on: (1) strengthening the accountability and effectiveness of the public sector; (2) helping Malawi’s youth lead healthy, informed, and productive lives; and (3) ensuring that the private sector increases inclusive and sustainable wealth generation.

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Preventing Childhood Malaria Despite COVID-19

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Maimouna Traoré lives in Sikasso, southern Mali, and remembers dreading the rainy season only a few years ago. As she recalls, “In the past, many children in our area would die of severe malaria with seizures, but thanks to the SMC being done every year, there are rarely cases of malaria in our families.

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Investing to Shape Malawi’s Future

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LONG-TERM development planning is crucial to USAID’s core mission of promoting and demonstrating democratic values, and advancing a free, peaceful, and prosperous world. In line with this, USAID/Malawi has launched its 2020–2025 Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) at special virtual events with its major stakeholders:  the Government of Malawi, fellow donors, civil society organizations, and the private sector. 

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Increased Transparency Restores Trust in Malawi Election Rerun

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Citing widespread irregularities in Malawi’s 2019 presidential elections, the country’s Constitutional Court annulled the race in early February and ordered a rerun. Some of the most common irregularities cited by the judges included obvious errors in filling out electoral forms and the use of correction fluid to change mistakes. Questioning the integrity of the results, Malawians took to the streets to protest the election results and to demand greater transparency in the electoral process.

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Distributing PPE to protect health workers in Malawi

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Until recently, “PPE” was an obscure acronym for many people, but now it has become a vital commodity globally. Today, with the realities of COVID-19, health workers around the world are experiencing a troubling shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) – a mix of items including gloves, mask, aprons, and goggles that can help prevent  disease transmission in health care settings.

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Building Schools, Building Malawi

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With new schools being built by USAID and PEPFAR, more girls and boys in Malawi will have improved access to education.

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Wash Your Hands, Avoid Covid 19!

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Since 2016, one program that Manes depends on is Tipindule ndi Ulimi - a weekly program developed by the USAID-funded Feed the Future Malawi Agricultural Diversification (AgDiv) activity. AgDiv provides information about how to improve production of soybeans, groundnuts (peanuts), and orange fleshed sweet potatoes.

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