Malawi needs to sharpen its focus on the connections between climate change, human rights and environmental protection, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has said, warning that vulnerable communities continue to shoulder the worst effects of the climate crisis. Speaking at a joint UNDP and Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) media engagement on environmental and […]
The Department of Water Resources with support from the M-Climes project funded by UNDP will construct 22 new data collection platforms (DCP) to help control floods in the country. The project is part of an expansion of the Operation Decision Support System (ODSS) to central and northern catchment areas that control water levels in rivers […]
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says it sees energy mini grids as a solution for Malawi’s energy challenges. Speaking when the Ministry of Energy, Mining and Natural Resources commissioned Sitolo Solar Minigrid in Mchinji, head of UNDP resilience and sustainable growth in Malawi, Andrew Spezowka, said he understands the enormity of the energy challenges daunting […]
Former workers of the National Registration Bureau (NRB) have given UNDP four days to pay up their unpaid allowances. The officers issued the ultimatum on Monday after presenting a petition following a protest march from parliament roundabout to UNDP offices in Lilongwe. The ex-workers claim UNDP did not pay them their working allowances during the […]
UN Resident Coordinator Maria Jose Torres has stressed the need to accept the verdict of the five-judge panel of the Constitutional Court in a case where two petitioners want presidential poll results in the May 21 Tripartite Elections nullified over alleged irregularities. Jose Torres said as the country awaits the Court decision on the elections case, […]
Malawi Police in Lilongwe have released one of UNDP top officials who was arrested for allegedly assaulting a Lilongwe Water Board (LWB) meter reading officer. UNDP Portfolio manager Andrew Spezowka, a Canadian was briefly detained on Thursday for assaulting the Lilongwe Water Board officer at the manager’s residence in Area 12, Lilongwe. Acting public relations […]
An information technology specialist working for the United Nations Development (UNDP) is being suspected as the ‘ghost user’ that stands accused of hacking into Malawi Electoral Commission’s system and approving votes in the May 21 elections. Presenting his testimony in the Constitutional Court, Daud Suleman, who was the sixth and last witness for Malawi Congress Party […]
“Behold, I have created the blacksmith who blows the coals in the fire, who brings forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the spoiler to destroy. 17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the […]
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has banned the use of single and thin plastics at the organisation’s offices or the UN funded events in the country. This comes barely a week after President Peter Mutharika was spotted at Blantyre market buying vegetables, fruits and other things which were packed in plastic bags. The UNDP […]
The Constitutional Court has now received an application by Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to submit to the court a report by external auditors it has hired to validate the results of the elections. This was disclosed by , Justice Healey Potani on behalf of the panel of five judges hearing the on going election case, […]
Despite the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) failing to submit an electoral audit report in the in the ongoing constitutional case where opposition leaders are challenging results of the May 21 2019 presidential election, the document is now in public domain and dominates the discussion in different social media forums. The Constitutional Court, on June 27 […]
The unsustainable use of natural resources and agricultural practices cost Malawi the opportunity to lift 1.9 people out of abject poverty between 2005 and 2015, the latest United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report says. The report states that more women farmers than men are not adopting modern farming methods and practices, which has tended to […]
Minister of Health and Population Atupele Muluzi has expressed the need for the country to establish a strategic plan that would make best use of available energy technologies and distribution to ensure sustainable power in the health sector. Muluzi was speaking on Tuesday in Lilongwe during a National Consultation meeting on Draft Power for Health […]
Poverty in Malawi is extensive and deepening with life expectancy for Malawians now stands at 63.7 from the previous 63.8 mark, a latest United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Index (HDI) report has revealed. The report shows that people’s living standards stagnated in 2017 and categorised the country in the low human development category, […]
With support from UNDP and the Royal Norwegian Embassy, Malawi’s first innovation hub, MHub, has partnered with GrowthAfrica, a leading African Accelerator and Accesserator, a Netherlands-based investment firm to implement the Growth Accelerator Entrepreneurship Challenge. This is an initiative to support innovative and impactful Malawian enterprises with finance of up to USD 40,000 and technical […]
United Nations Resident Coordinator to Malawi, Miss Maria Jose Torres says she is impressed with how the Malawi government has invested in voter registration in readiness for the 2019 tripartite elections. Torres made the remarks in Kasungu during a monitoring visit to some voter registration centers in the district. Speaking after visiting a few centers […]
The United Nations (UN) offices in Lilongwe have swiftly reacted to reports that some Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) accredited by the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to conduct voter and civic education for next year’s elections remain unfunded due to their lack of financial accountability of funding from development partners in the previous polls. The UN […]
UNDP Malawi in partnership Royal Norwegian Embassy in Lilongwe, Malawi are supporting a Market Test that aims to support 10 to 12 emerging entrepreneurs with financial and technical assistance to scale up their ventures. These entrepreneurs stand a chance of winning up to $40 000. The programme, called Growth Accelerator will be implemented by Malawi’s […]