Partners

IFAD partners in Malawi

Working in partnership with the government and with other United Nations agencies, donors and various NGOs, IFAD invests in development with the objective of reducing rural poverty in Malawi. Since 2003 IFAD has collaborated with the government in a changing framework that emphasizes decentralization. In this context IFAD participates in donor working groups and in policy discussions on agriculture. In the key sector of irrigation IFAD supports strong government initiatives related to water management that include users’ participation and the institutionalization of water management practices at the local level.

Several large donors, particularly the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the European Union, as well as a number of bilateral organizations, provide substantial grant resources to Malawi. Much, if not all, of this assistance focuses on supporting the core poor. Though its financing of the Malawi Social Fund, the World Bank supports the development of basic infrastructure in rural areas.

To draw development down to the grass-roots level and empower local communities, the United Nations Development Programme supports the decentralization process in Malawi. IFAD shares this objective, along with the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, the German Agency for Technical Cooperation, the German Credit Institution for Reconstruction and the World Bank. In this changing framework, IFAD and the World Bank have renewed their longtime partnership and are financing the Irrigation, Rural Livelihoods and Agricultural Development Project.

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