The United Nations Human Settlements Programme’s (UN-HABITAT) mission is to promote socially and environmentally sustainable urban development with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.
UN-HABITAT is committed to supporting Malawi in her efforts to achieve sustainable urbanisation and adequate shelter for all and the achievement of the MDGs. Activities include the Cities Without Slums Programme, the Malawi National Slum Upgrading Programme, and the Managing HIV and AIDS at the local level programme, among others.
The World Bank aims to support Malawi's efforts toward more diversified, competitive, shock-resilient socio-economic growth.
Fully aligned with the Second Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS II) and the Economic Recovery Plan launched in October 2012, the Malawi Country Partnership Strategy responds to recent developments in the economic and governance context in Malawi, and prioritizes World Bank Group support around three themes and six result areas.
The World Food Programme Country Programme (CP) in Malawi in started in March 2012 and will be operational until February 2016. The overarching objective of the programme is to strengthen national capacity to improve primary education outcomes, reduce malnutrition among vulnerable groups, and improve the food security of communities living in disaster-prone areas and build their resilience to shocks. The CP aims to achieve this through its three components: Support to Education, Nutritional Support and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) for Food Security.
UNICEF has been operating in Malawi since 1964. The current UNICEF/Government of Malawi Country Programme of Cooperation aims to support national efforts to progressively realise the rights of children and women through improved child survival, development, protection and participation.
In Malawi, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is supporting the Government to use development resources effectively and accountably to achieve the objectives of the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy and attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
UNDP Malawi works closely with partners to build the national capacity to combat the widespread and deep-rooted poverty in Malawi. More than two thirds of the population lives below the national poverty line.
The Ministry's mission is to promote and facilitate agricultural productivity so as to ensure food security, increased incomes and creation of employment opportunities through the sustainable management and utilization of natural resources, adaptive research and effective extension delivery system, promotion of value-addition and agribusiness and irrigation development.
The mandate of the Ministry is to ascertain a sustainable provision of water supply and sanitation services and implementation of irrigation development programmes in order to contribute to socio-economic growth in Malawi.
The Department is responsible for all matters to do with climate change and meteorological services such As climate and weather. The Department is based in Blantyre.