The Government of Malawi through the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) has developed this National Inclusive Education Strategy to promote equitable access to quality education at all levels. The strategy outlines expected outcomes to be achieved in a 5 year period.
Malawi is a small, narrow, landlocked country that shares boundaries with Zambia in the west, Mozambique in the east, south and southwest, and Tanzania in the north. Malawi has an area of 118,484 km2 of which 94,276 km2 is landlocked. The country is divided into three administrative regions, namely the northern, central and southern regions. Malawi has 28 districts, which are further divided into traditional authorities (TAs) ruled by chiefs. The village is the smallest administrative unit and each village is under a TA. A Group Village Headman (GVH) oversees several villages.
Complications from spontaneous and induced abortions - primarily hemorrhage, infection and injury to the genital tract - remain a serious threat to the health of women in Malawi. These complications account for as much as 60% of acute gynaecological admissions into both public and private health facilities in Malawi (Kinoti et al, 1995).
Large-scale landscape restoration will create significant social, economic, and environmental benefits in Malawi that will include increased food, water, and livelihood security for many Malawians. Restoration of degraded and deforested land has an unparalleled potential to use nature-based solutions to address Malawi’s Vision 2020, Growth and Development Strategy III, and many additional components of current agricultural, land use, economic, social, and conservation policies.
More than 97% of Malawian households use charcoal or firewood for cooking and heating, making Malawi one of the most biomass energy-dependent countries in the world. In Malawi’s rapidly-growing urban centers, biomass energy remains the primary cooking and heating fuel for 88% of the population, and charcoal is now the primary source of fuel for the majority (54%) of urban households. Across rural Malawi, households continue to rely almost exclusively on firewood.
HIV prevalence in Malawi is declining overall with new infections reducing from 55,000 in 2011 to 34,000 in 2013. Implementation of effective prevention, treatment, care and support interventions in the national response need to take into consideration certain realities.
We, the Governments participating in the Fourth World Conference on Women, gathered here in Beijing in September 1995, the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, determined to advance the goals of equality, development and peace for all women everywhere in the interest of all humanity...
The first case of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was diagnosed in Malawi in 1985. Since then HIV prevalence increased significantly and reached a peak of 16.4% in 1999 among persons aged 15-49 years Thereafter, the prevalence has been declining steadily, reaching 10.6% in 2010. In 2010 females had a higher HIV prevalence than males (12.9% vs 8.1%), with the largest disparity being in the 15-19 year old age group (3.7% in women and 0.4%). In addition, HIV was more prevalent in urban communities (17.4%) compared to rural communities (9%).
The NTP Strategic Plan (2007-2011) successfully guided the TB control efforts in the past 5 years in Malawi. Following a WHO led Program review in 2011, a number of strengths and weaknesses were highlighted and these have assisted the development of this Strategic Plan (2012-16). This Strategic plan therefore builds on successes and also seeks to improve on weaknesses of the previous plan. Among others, the current Strategic plan recognizes the challenges in case detection which is below the WHO target of 70%.
We, the representatives of member States of the League of Arab States (LAS), assembled in Cairo, the Arab Republic of Egypt, from 24-26 June 2013 for the Regional Conference on Population and Development in the Arab States, to review the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), adopted in Cairo in 1994, and to commit to key actions and priorities to expeditiously achieve the goals and objectives of the ICPD beyond 2014 as well as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the global development agenda post- 2015.