This policy draws from the 2000-2005 National Gender Policy whose overall goal was to mainstream gender in the national development process to enhance participation of women and men, girls and boys for sustainable and equitable development for poverty eradication. The Policy was launched on 8th March 2000 and was implemented for a period of five years up to December 2005.
The National Gender Policy provides guidelines for mainstreaming gender in various sectors of the economy with the overall goal of reducing gender inequalities and enhancing participation of women, men, girls and boys in socio economic and political development.
The National Health Policy provides policy direction on key issues that are central to the development and functioning of the health system in Malawi. The Policy has been developed in line with the Constitution of the Republic of Malawi which stipulates that the State is obliged “to provide adequate health care, commensurate with the health needs of Malawian society and international standards of health care”1. In this respect, the Constitution guarantees all Malawians highest quality healthcare services within the limited resources available.
The health sector goals of the Government of Malawi are to improve the health status of all Malawians, to ensure that the population is satisfied with the health services provided, and does not suffer avoidable financial risks in the process of accessing healthcare. During the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) period (2000-2015), Malawi made significant progress in improving access to essential health services.
This is a procedure manual that has been developed by the Ministry of Health Human Resource Directorate with support from Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF).
The manual is comprised of disciplinary issues, recruitment procedures, management functions, training and records management.
The National Agriculture Policy (NAP) defines the vision for development of the agricultural sector in Malawi over the next five years. By 2020, agriculture in Malawi will increasingly be oriented towards profitable commercial farming through specialization of smallholder farm production, output diversification at the national level, and value addition in downstream value chains. The NAP will guide the design of agricultural subsector policies, strategies, and other actions of the Government of Malawi over the next five years.
The 2005 Policy Measures for the Improvement of Health Research Co-ordination in Malawi has been in use for over seven years. As a first edition, it performed generally well as a co-ordinatory tool. However, during the period of its performance, a number of co-ordinatory and regulatory complexities, challenges and difficulties in the co-ordination, review and conduct of health research evolved which could no longer be adequately managed and addressed by the 2005 set of policy measures.
Persons with disabilities in Malawi, as in many other countries, face numerous challenges that result in their exclusion from the mainstream of society, making it difficult for them to access their fundamental social, political and economic rights. Many make their way through life impoverished, abandoned, uneducated, malnourished, discriminated against, neglected and vulnerable. For them, life is a daily struggle to survive. Whether they live in urban centres or in rural areas, they share these common problems.
This 2012 revised edition of the “National Policy Requirement and Guidance for the Provision of Insurance Cover for Research Participants in Clinical Trials in Malawi” includes extensive revisions to certain sections of the 2008 policy document. Such revisions aim at providing stakeholders further guidance and clarity on the policy elements.
Agriculture is the mainstay of the economy in Malawi. The sector contributes about 36% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 87% of the total employment, supplies more than 65% of the manufacturing sector’s raw materials, provides 64% of the total income of the rural people, and contributes more than 90% of the foreign exchange earnings. It is the main livelihood of the majority of rural people, who account for more than 85% of the current estimated 12-13 million people.