Malawi SDG Acceleration Fund approves new programmes and allocates additional MK3 billion to fight COVID-19
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The Malawi SDG Acceleration Fund supports three Joint Programmes to improve health systems, keep girls in school, and build community resilience, and has allocated additional MK3 billion to fight COVID-19.
Malawi’s Sustainable Development Goals Acceleration Fund (SDG-AF) was set up in 2019 by the Government of Malawi, development partners, and the United Nations (UN) to accelerate progress towards national attainment of the SDGs.
At its meeting on February 5, the Fund’s Steering Committee, co-chaired by the Secretary to Treasury Chauncy Simwaka and the UN Resident Coordinator Maria Jose Torres, endorsed three Joint Programmes that address the core of national priorities, decentralizing implementation to the district level and ensuring services reach the last mile.
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Expenditure reports on the K6.2 billion Covid-19 response funds whose accountability is under scrutiny indicate that the bulk of the resources were spent on allowances and logistics compared to essential services such as supplies to hospital.
The reports further show duplication of activities and by extension costs among the 15 Covid-19 clusters under the Department of Disaster Management Affairs (Dodma).
The expenditure trend for September to December 2020 on the watch of President Lazarus Chakwera and Tonse Alliance appears similar to that of April to June 2020 under president Peter Mutharika and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as published by The Nation yesterday.
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