| Approval Date | 29 Oct 1992 |
| Signature Date | 05 Mar 1993 |
| Planned Completion Date | 31 Dec 2001 |
| Last Disbursement Planned Date | 31 Dec 2002 |
| Sovereign / Non-Sovereign | Sovereign |
| Sector | Social |
| DAC Sector Code | 11231 |
| Environmental Category | 3 |
| Commitment | U.A 4,996,859.38 |
| Status | Completion |
The Women in Development (WID) project was approved in October 1992 in order to respond to the need to improve the socio-economic well-being of Malawians especially the rural Malawian women. The WID Project is critical in creating opportunities for improving the livelihood of Malawian women and also in enhancing GOM’s ability to create an enabling environment for this to happen. It aims at strengthening and building the capacities of rural women in adult literacy and income generation aspects. To this effect, the project adopted a two-pronged approach in addressing these limitations: (i) by reducing the adult illiteracy among rural women. To facilitate this, training of trainers courses will be organized by the project for key field staff including Community Development Assistants (CDAs) and literacy instructors. and (ii) by equipping them with functional and business development skills with credit support for undertaking income generating activities. The project will also permit for the provision of adequate logistical support, such as learning materials, vehicles and motor cycles to the field staff so that they can carry out their roles in an effective and efficient way. In addition, the capacities of concerned Government Departments will be targeted for strengthening for the creation of enabling environment women empowerment and the long-term sustainability of the project’s interventions.
The major objective of the project is to support WID structures in Malawi with a view to assisting women at the grass-roots level in 8 districts to undertake IGAs for increasing their standard of living. The development objective is to promote women’s participation in economic-oriented development activities so as to elevate their socioeconomic status and the well-being of their households.
The project will permit to: (a) extend Functional Literacy with a total of 224 literacy instructors appointed and trained as well as more than 5,000 women attended literacy classes; (b) improve access for rural women to Income Generating Activities (IGAs) with 222 groups, comprising of 2,664 members trained to undertake join income generating activities; (c) concerned Government Departments capacities strengthening for the creation of enabling environment women empowerment and the long-term sustainability of the project’s interventions.
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Funding
African Development Fund
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Extending
Government Of Malawi
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Implementing
Ministry of Gender, Child Welfare and Community Services
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| IATI identifier | 46002-P-MW-I00-001 |
| Last Update | 15 Apr 2021 |
| Name | BALDEH Yero H.J. |
| y.baldeh@afdb.org |
| Country | Malawi |