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The Farmers Forum for Trade & Social Justice (FAFOTRAJ) - Calvin Kamchacha outh Net and Counselling has given soft loans to 10 young people in Namanolo in the area of Sub Traditional Authority Amidu in Balaka district. The beneficiaries were trained in business management by Community Development Officer for Balaka district Mrs. Grades Masula. The loan will be revolving and has an interest of 10%. The beneficiaries are expected to start repayments after doing business for 3 months. The repayments will be from the fourth month and the period will depend on the group’s agreement. More Development
Resource and Action Mentorship - Braxton Banda map YONECO
Empowers Young People! - Charles
Banda, YONECO
Youth Net and Counselling has given soft loans to 10 young people in Namanolo in the area of Sub Traditional Authority Amidu in Balaka district. The beneficiaries were trained in business management by Community Development Officer for Balaka district Mrs. Grades Masula. The loan will be revolving and has an interest of 10%. The beneficiaries are expected to start repayments after doing business for 3 months. The repayments will be from the fourth month and the period will depend on the group’s agreement. More Child
Abuse on the increase in Zomba - Charles Banda, YONECO YONECO (Youth Net and Counselling) Map YONECO
has taken a holistic approach in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
The local
organization has a number of activities that promote prevention,
mitigation and empowerment of affected and vulnerable groups. Organizational
objectives: The
Malawian Initiative for National Development (MIND) - Paul
Shaw (4
comments) Of
Development Aid in Malawi - David
Mkwambisi The management of development aid by both government and development partners leaves a lot to be desired and has received a lot of public scrutiny. Ministries have misused development aid and yet nothing has been don to punish those responsible. Government projects aiming to improve the lives of million malnutrition children have been left into few greed managers. Aid meant for educating thousand children in an entire region have been diverted to a single village. Development aid targeting irrigation and micro finance has been diverted to political functions with donors watching, affecting research institutions, giving pressure to medical doctors, resulting in half baked graduates, with women dying like pigs affected with African Swine fever or chickens with Newcastle disease. Experienced people who can manage development aid have either been transferred to create room for corrupt managers, or they have left for better institutions where governance is not compromised by politics. Separate accounts gave been opened to divert development aid. Despite that Malawi depend on primary commodity exports facing highly unstable markets, the distribution of donor support by functional sector during 2005/06 shows that agriculture was not among the most important sector to receive aid. Coupled with unfavourable agro-climatic conditions, misallocation of coupons and movements of same commodities at wrong hours, development aid is failing to achieve its intended results. Bilateral donors often have political and commercial motives for aid that can interfere with developmental objectives. When these motives predominate, the results can be harmful to growth and to the poor. The effects of having many donors working in a single country has also a negative impact on the outcome of development aid. The relief of poverty depends both on aid and on the policies of the recipient countries-a collaboration in which aid is definitely the junior partner. Increasing institutional capacity in the recipient country is a key feature of successful development, affecting both the prospects for long-term economic self-reliance and also the performance of the project itself. Findings have shown that over 70 percent of the small number of projects receiving aid with poor institutional results produced low or negative returns. The involvement of women has also been considered as an important element is managing development. In Malawi most of key positions in the department of Malawi Revenue Authority as managed by women, because as mothers they consider the plight of many. Misuse of resources by women is very minimal. In development aid, too often women are little consulted and considered in the design of projects, and they receive a disproportionately small share of the benefits. The natural environment also affects development aid and many managers have failed to consider ecological issues in the design and implementation of projects. With large parts of the country under ecological pressure and some in acute crisis, the effectiveness of aid must in part be judged by the contribution it makes to sound management of natural resources. Programmes receiving aid should make sure that potential and harmful ecological effects are minimized or eliminated, giving attention to the scale and effectiveness of projects that are primarily concerned to remedy environmental problems. Even though donors have clearly indicated the importance of environment in their package, project managers have deliberately ignored this aspects hacking back to saving money for personal gains. Finally, as a country, we should be in a position to control development aid and those supporting us. Project proliferation has an impact if nor well coordinated. Aid projects are planted here and there in an almost haphazard way and in excessive numbers, with a variety of untoward consequences. Aid overload with donors setting up and funding projects beyond the capacity of the recipient country to administer is dangerous and should be checked. Project proliferation has exacerbated existing manpower and administrative shortcomings. Even though this increases the volume of technical cooperation projects, at the same time it creates competition and scares investments from local investors and promotes duplication of projects. Google
Earth and How It Can Help Development Activities - Paul
Shaw (1
comment) Students
for Rural Development - David Mkwambisi The club has implimented several development programmes both in rural and urban areas. In 2006, UNICEF-Malawi and Winrock International funded sustainable livelihoods to reduce child labour and promote formal education in tea and tobacco estates respectively (http://circle.winrock.org/ngo/mw/SYRD.cfm). Currently, project proposals have been submitted to donors to involve students in integrated livelihoods projects. Funding is also sort to allow students participate in internatioal conferences and workshops that aim to promote volunteerism and sustainable development. The contact details for SRYD are: The Chaiperson, SRYD Club, Bunda College, University of Malawi, PO Box 219, Lilongwe. Malawi, Email: srydclub@bunda.unima.mw, Phone: 265 1 277 900/226, Fax : 265 1 277 364 |
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