The Ministry of Gender is mandated to promote gender equality and protect the welfare of Malawian women, men, girls, and boys with special focus on persons with disabilities and older persons to become self-reliant and active participants and beneficiaries of the national socio-economic development agenda. The estimated budget for this fiscal year is MK 31 billion, a 14% decrease from
The Malawi National 2023/24 FY budget was proposed by the Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs on 02nd March, 2023 to the National Assembly for consideration. What are the Gender Implications of the 2023/24 FY budget?
A gender mainstreaming method called gender responsive budgeting (GRB) is used to create gender-sensitive budget analysis, budgets, and policies. Gender Responsive Budgeting, sometimes also referred to as “Gender Budgeting,” is an “approach founded on the assumption that budgets are not gender neutral and that the decisions governments make about how to generate and allocate resources can reinforce, perpetuate, or alleviate
Honorable Gadama took Times Newspaper to witness the devastation cyclone Freddy has left families in her community; Thondwe Constituency in Zomba district on Tuesday, 11th April 2023. Images depict a house that has collapsed for the second time this year belonging to a family that is headed by a paralyzed man. Honorable Gadama continues to call on well-wishers to help
By Roseby Gama Gadama (Parliamentary Women Caucus Chairperson) The Southern African country, Malawi, is get popular with occurrence of deadly tropical cyclone waves. Cyclone Freddy which made a landfall last month, March 2023, is one of the biggest cyclones that ever happened in memory to have caused such as grave destruction to the country. Unlike the impact of the notable
The Speaker of Parliament Right Honourable Catherine Gotani Hara, MP, is in the southern region where she is visiting victims of Cyclone Freddy. Joined by some Members of the Parliamentary Women Caucus (PWC), the Speaker today visited Phalombe Secondary School Camp, Phalombe Health Center and Chambe Camp where she donated cash and assorted items. Later in the day, the Speaker