Themes
Disaster risk reduction
Malawi faces disasters and shocks including floods, droughts, and chronic food shortages. Disaster risk reduction covers a wide range of measures to prevent and minimise disasters, including flood control, early warning systems and disaster preparedness. There is significant potential to increase investment in risk reduction and address underlying chronic vulnerabilities, and so reduce the need for humanitarian response after shocks occur.
Majete Wildlife Reserve: restoring nature and securing local jobs
Blog
A nature conservation initiative in Majete Wildlife Reserve in Malawi is providing sustainable jobs for local people – and helping the communities’ youngsters to know what a tall tree or an elephant looks like, for the first time in their lives.
International Women’s Day: time to put Malawi’s gender equality laws into practice
Blog
On this International Women’s Day, 8th March, we have been thinking about the resilience and empowerment of Malawian women and girls: their wellbeing, their development, and their ability to respond to climate change and other stresses.
Milestones for Malawi on the road to COP26
Blog
The Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) has been postponed until November 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. Find out about the key international milestones on the road to COP26, to keep climate ambition moving!
Investing in clean energy sources is key to curbing Malawi's deforestation
Blog
As Malawi works to implement its National Charcoal Strategy, the Modern Cooking for Healthy Forests initiative is making it easier for people to switch away from charcoal, to cleaner, alternative cooking fuels.
New monitoring unit and training to boost forest conservation
Blog
Modern Cooking for Healthy Forests is working closely with the Government of Malawi to develop a National Forest and Landscape Monitoring Unit that will measure both the extent of Malawi's forests - and how healthy they are.
Malawi launches its updated climate change learning strategy
News
On 9 February 2021, the Ministry of Forestry and Natural Resources launched the revised National Strategy on Climate Change Learning. Emmanuel Chirwa of the BRACC Knowledge and Policy Hub describes what it's all about.
Civil society priorities for Malawi at COP26: Interview with Julius Ng’oma
Blog
An interview with Julius Ng’oma, coordinator of CISONECC – the Civil Society Network on Climate Change.
MCHF Overview of work on forest cover monitoring
Issues brief
Modern Cooking for Healthy Forests (MCHF) promotes sustainable forest management and energy options to maintain forest cover and to reduce land-based emissions in Malawi.
MCHF Overview of work on sustainable forest management
Issues brief
Modern Cooking for Healthy Forests (MCHF) promotes sustainable forest management and energy options to maintain forest cover and to reduce land-based emissions in Malawi.