United Nations resident coordinator, Rebecca Adda-Donto, has challenged Malawi to start making an effort to finance its development projects.
Adda-Donto said this during a Joint National Steering Committee Meeting between the United Nations Country Team and the Government of Malawi in Lilongwe.
The meeting was aimed at assessing progress in implementing the 2024-2028 Cooperation Framework and endorse the 2024 Annual Performance Results and the 2024-2025 Joint Work Plan.
“The United Nations is encouraging Malawi for domestic resource mobilisation because this is the biggest challenge.
“With what is happening in the world now, we have to look inside in terms of where we can generate domestic resources to really be able to implement Malawi 2063, the MIP [Malawi Investment Plan] one, and the Sustainable Development Goals,” Adda-Donto said.
She has since advised the government to put its house in order, as there has been a lot of project duplication, which worries the developmental partners.
Co-coordinator of the committee, Colleen Zamba who is also Secretary to the President and Cabinet, admitted that the country has a big gap on resource mobilisation.
“There are efforts that are taking place between the Malawi Government and the UN that we should now be able to mobilise more resources to meet the programme planning.
“I think we also are trying to come up with real, practical ways of how we can make sure that nobody is left behind, especially when we are talking about the decentralisation drive,” Zamba said.
She said the government will make sure that the councils and the people who are living in remote areas are part of the development process.
In 2024, the UN in Malawi, in partnership with the government, commenced the implementation of the new UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework for 2024-2028.
The Cooperation Framework, signed by the government and 23 UN agencies, outlines the strategic vision of the UN in Malawi, aligning with national development goals as articulated in Vision 2063.
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