UK, Ireland donate K6.6 Billion to Malawi

Dec 20, 2017 Politics 100
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The UK Aid and Irish Aid have donated £6.8m (K6.6 Billion) to the Malawi government– funds meant to meet the food needs of over 500,000 vulnerable locals.

Malawi Vice President, Saulos Chilima together with UN and NGO implementing partners, will launch this support in Nsanje today, Wednesday 20th December.

This new package of development assistance from the UK and Ireland will help hundreds of thousands of Malawians with cash transfers to buy food and other essentials during the difficult pre-harvest lean season, and is in support of the Government of Malawi’s forthcoming National Resilience Strategy.

Jen Marshall
Marshall: This is at a right time.

In line with Government data and plans, DFID and Irish Aid are targeting the most vulnerable districts: Nsanje, Balaka, Chikwawa and Mwanza (the worst affected four Districts) plus Machinga, Blantyre, Mulanje, Phalombe and Neno. This

According to Jen Marshall, Head of the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) in Malawi, this year is a better year for food availability in Malawi, providing the chance for Government and Development Partners to do things differently.

Marshall said this cash-only safety net programme provides cost efficient, flexible, immediate assistance and says now is the time to plan how Malawi’s long term social protection programmes can better respond to high levels of vulnerability.

“Importantly, these cash transfers are being provided alongside a further scale up of UK Aid funded resilience-building interventions that aim to reduce communities’ and the country’s dependence on short-term responses.

We all agree that Malawi urgently needs to break the cycle of annual emergency response and find long term solutions, including expanded long term safety nets, more resilient livelihoods, and more predictable markets for maize and other crops.” said Marshall.

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100 Comments

  1. Ah apangira ka Compghain a DPP zina banso Chaponda bola tonse titsegulitse ma account ma Donor aliense adzimupatsa ekha! cox Mbuzi izi za DPP they are doing nothing kaya 2019 ifika liti tilowetse MCP?

  6. Only 1 billion wil go to the beneficiaries … the 5.6 billion its for allowances and benefits for top officials… ma meeting/ ma training osatha ku sun n sand, nkopola every week…thats an african way of helping the poor…

  9. Di system na full of liars
    Sizioneka ndalama zimenezo
    Donors please just start bringing food stuffs rather than money because you can not trust malawi government with money….they fail to control 2 billion so what about 6

  10. Osauka saonapo kanthu zalowakale muthumba lamunthu wankulu ,mmalawi mwini kumavutika kumangomva kuti mulandi thandizo mpakana mawa wina athawanazo ngati chaponda.

  14. The amount of money donated is no longer the same since agawana kale ma share while eniake ofunika thandizolo ukungotuwa uko! demet!!!!!!!

  15. The money donated is no longer the same since agawana kale ma share while eniake ofunika thandizolo ukungotuwa uko! demet!!!!!!!

  18. Kunoko kumafunika kumatipasa cooked beans,and cooked poridge otherwise cash imapindulira anthu 10 dziko lonseli……

  26. Better just buy the food & give it where its needed otherwise Malawians cant be trusted with cash nomore…akaba kusungira campaign zimenezo

  40. Tizawawunikira ma donors mbali zoyonera chithandizo, lero ndinthaw yomathandizana chakudya mmalawi muno? 5000 people from where ? Plenty of maize even Government can assist on that,

  48. Vuto Ndikusolora I Think These Donors Should Come And Do The Development Themselves Not Giving Us Cash, We Are Good At Misusing Cash!

    2. All these billions for Agriculture? Ulimi Wake utiwo apa taulozeni akulu inu? Kuzitenga bwino? What do you mean by that? Do you think i give shit with your government?

  62. Malawi anali kale timati tikagona osadya afiti amatidyetsa usiku pozuka tili ndi power koma pano afitinso adaimika manja sungalote ukudya nsima uphawi wafikapo hvy.

    1. kkkkkkkkkk koditu ndalamazi akamapereka amapereka akudziwa kuti zigwira ntchito yoti ngati wina wakupatsa K2000 kuti ugulire nsapato ndie iwe ukasinthe kukagulira malaya ndie kutsokonedzako kumeneko ngati ndalama izi apereka kuti zigwire ntchito kumbali ya ulimi ndi ulimi basi osati chifukwa choti dera lakuti kulibe mseu ndie titengeko half ya ndalama za kuulimi zija tikamangire nseu uko ndie kutsokonedzako

    2. Kkkkkkkk is that what I mean??? Are you just okay upstairs??? Kufulumira kutsutsa wasuya eti?? ? what i mean is chimene ma donors aperekera ndalamacho,, ndalama zimenezo sizipita ku department imeyo thats what i was trying to say,, are you a Pitala fun?? ? ? ? ?

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