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USAID/Malawi’s Organized Network of Services for Everyone’s Health (ONSE) activity (Malawi):  USAID's Organized Network of Services for Everyone's Health's (ONSE) activity focuses on maternal, neonatal, and child health; voluntary family planning; malaria; water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH); and nutrition. ONSE will continue to: 1) scale up effective, equitable, locally adapted, and evidence-based interventions to reach poor, marginalized, and vulnerable people, including youth and adolescents; 2) advance quality of priority health services; 3) address gender-based violence through community sensitization and awareness, one stop centres, and enhanced service for victims; and, 4) support sustainable access to WASH services and products. WASH services include supporting community and health facility driven efforts; championing the adoption of positive hygienic behaviours; and providing WASH governance bodies with skills-based training to improve the sustainable management of WASH services. Community mobilization efforts include social and behavior change communication on voluntary family planning, gender norms, timely care seeking, and healthy household practices and behaviors. ..The activity aligns with the Integrated Country Strategy Mission Objective 3.2 - Malawi improves access to and quality of health services so that more of its citizens gain and retain full health and are able to contribute productively at home, in the community, and at work...
World Food Programme Malawi Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) - 2013 Award for local and regional procurement World Food Programme Malawi Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) - 2013 Award for local and regional procurement
Health Communication for Life (HC4L) (Malawi):  USAID's Health Communication for Life activity provides technical assistance to the Malawi Ministry of Health to design and implement social and behavior change strategies to increase positive healthy behaviors among Malawians. This activity will enable the Ministry to lead national social behavior change communication programming and will coordinate key USAID implementing partners in support of national efforts. In close coordination with the Ministry of Health, the activity conducts key health communication interventions to increase positive behaviors to combat malaria and improve maternal, neonatal, and child health; promote voluntary family planning and reproductive healthcare; reinforce preventive nutrition; and improve  water, sanitation and hygiene practices. This activity will target socio-cultural practices that impede adoption of good health-seeking practices and behaviors using multi-channel social behavior change communication interventions including: (1) enhancing the capacity of Ministry staff; (2) scaling up the development of locally adapted and evidence-based social behavior change interventions to reach poor, marginalized, and vulnerable people (including adolescents and youth), to prevent diseases and foster positive health practices; and, (3) promoting open dialogue on gender dynamics among adolescents and mothers, including the involvement of male champions. By increasing health-seeking behaviors, the activity contributes to the accomplishment of the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative objectives and the Integrated Country Strategy Mission Objective 1.1 which seeks to improve social development..
Tingathe Community Outreach Program The program design for the Tingathe Program is straightforward. It aims at Pregnant women who are diagnosed with HIV in community health centers and are assigned a CHW who enrolls them into the program via opening of a patient mastercard for easy follow u
Performance Evaluation of the Community-based Therapeutic Care Institutionalization (CTCIM) project Performance Evaluation of the Community-based Therapeutic Care Institutionalization (CTCIM) project
Wellness and Agriculture for Life Advancement WALA Program The Wellness and Agriculture for Life Advancement (WALA) program is helping reduce food insecurity in almost 215,000 chronically food insecure households in Southern Malawi. - See more at: http://www.crsprogramquality.org/publications/2013/5/13/wellness-and-agriculture-for-life-advancement-program-in-mal.html#sthash.uXy8qVYV.dpuf
Strengthened Child Health Care/BASICS BASICS' mission was to help Ministries of Health and their partners implement large-scale, evidence-based interventions that have been proven to be effective in preventing and treating the major causes of newborn and childhood death. These include malaria, pneumonia, diarrheal diseases, malnutrition, birth complications, and HIV/AIDS. Because most infants and children in developing countries have limited or no access to the formal health system, BASICS placed strong emphasis on improving the reach of health programs through community-based treatment, including private sector drug distribution.
CONCERT (Communicating, Networking, and Capacity-Building To Effectively Respond Together) CONCERT aims to reduce fertility and population growth; lower the risk of HIV/AIDS; and reduce maternal and infant and under-five mortality rates. The project has broad national coverage through mass media, campaigns, and capacity building, as well as intensive implementation through projects local partners. During the life of the project, CONCERT will: 1) Work to improve coordination and planning by developing a platform for health messaging and integrated communication strategies. 2) Develop a multi-media campaign using a centrepiece radio programme and family health booklet. 3) Develop a community mobilization toolkit. 4) Support capacity development of the HEU and explore the creation of an S/BCC knowledge management system. 5) Develop and document best practices, introducing new approaches to S/BCC and conduct operations research.
Wellness and Livelihood Advancement-Transfer Authorization Wellness and Livelihood Advancement-Transfer Authorization
Distribution of Long Life Insecticide-Treated Nets (LLINs) to Public Health Facilities Nationally in Malawi (Malawi):  The USAID/Malawi Distribution of Long Life Insecticide-Treated Nets (LLINs) activity will increase the National Malaria Control Program's (NMCP) capacity to manage and monitor the distribution of LLINs to public health facilities throughout Malawi. The activity will provide technical assistance and services to support the distribution and management of LLINs. FY 2014 activities include: -Distribute LLINs procured by the President's Malaria Initiative through antenatal care clinics, immunization clinics, and other continuous systems.-Support NMCP to monitor routine LLIN distribution.-Support NMCP to plan the 2015 LLIN mass-distribution campaign.-Support the public distribution of LLINs procured by other partners.Activities will result in improved access and use of LLINs and reduced malaria incidence in Malawi.
Natural Resources and Biodiversity - Biodiversity Policy and Governance Natural Resources and Biodiversity - Promote participatory, equitable and transparent governance structures, policies, laws, regulations, and administrative practices impacting the conservation and sustainable management of biodiversity services, including combating illegal and corrupt exploitation of such resources.
Award to provide protection, logistics, humanitarian coordination and information management, WASH, and shelter services in Syria. Award to provide protection, logistics, humanitarian coordination and information management, WASH, and shelter services in Syria.
Integrating Nutrition in Value Chains (INVC) (Malawi):  Integrating Nutrition in Value Chains (INVC) II, USAID/Malawi's follow-on to its flagship Feed the Future (FTF) activity, will reduce hunger, improve nutrition, and increase economic growth through market-led agricultural development.  INVC II will increase production, marketing, and consumption of three targeted nutrient-rich value chain commodities: groundnut, soy, and orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP).  FY 2015 activities include:-Linking SMEs to business and financial service providers;-Increasing smallholder farmers' productivity and access to markets for the targeted crops; and-Implementing the Care Group model to promote positive nutritional behaviors.INVC II will result in increased access to markets and finance for agriculture; strengthened technical and organizational capacity of agricultural small and medium enterprises; improved productivity of soy, groundnut, and OFSP; and improved nutrition-related behaviors for targeted beneficiaries in the FTF Zone of Influence.
Feed the Future Malawi Strengthening Agriculture and Nutrition Extension Services  (SANE) (Malawi):  Feed the Future's  Strengthening Agricultural and Nutrition Extension (SANE) activity will continue to provide training and technical assistance to extension agents and lead farmers to strengthen the capacity of the Government of Malawi and private sector agribusinesses to deliver agriculture and nutrition extension services. In FY 2019, SANE will prioritize the consolidation of gains made over the past 4 years and share the model with other districts  outside geographical focus in the final year of implementation. SANE will focus on: 1) rolling out the AgREACH Extension Helper, an extension service delivery accountability system, and other ICTs to help ensure quality of service delivery; 2) training and coaching of extension agents at various levels to serve as champions for sustainability of impacts and to help roll out methodologies used by SANE beyond the primary zone of influence; 3) training and coaching stakeholder panels at district and sub-district levels in standard operating procedures; and 4) building capacity in participatory extension approaches to help households derive better agricultural and nutritional outcomes. SANE will use organizational capacity assessment tools to evaluate progress made in strengthening capacities of various platforms to determine its primary focus areas.  Access to quality extension services is essential for enhancing productivity and nutrition outcomes and thereby contributing to reductions in poverty and stunting. Reduced poverty and stunting will help achieve the Mission's Development Objective 2: Sustainable Livelihoods Increased. SANE will help farming communities hold extension institutions accountable and ensure they are responsive to farmers' needs; strengthening systems for leveraging private sector resources; and helping farmers to capitalize on new technologies. The activity will continue to focus on the 10 FTF districts in central and southern Malawi..  ..
Early Grade Reading Activity (EGRA) (Malawi):  USAID/Malawi's Early Grade Reading Activity (EGRA) works with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to improve the reading skills of students in Standards 1-3.  Reading achievement, documented through several assessments, consistently shows Malawi ranking at the bottom in the Southern African Development Community region for primary student reading skills. FY 2015 activities include:-In-service training for teachers, head teachers, and primary education advisors; -Creating and providing teaching and learning materials to schools;-Coaching of teachers; -Advocacy for an improved policy environment for the teaching of reading; and -Community participation in the promotion of reading. Activities will result in improved early grade reading instruction for up to 16,000 teachers and will directly contribute to Goal 1 of the USAID Global Education Strategy by improving reading skills for more than 800,000 students in Malawi. Objectives for Malawi: Implemented by RTI International in 11 education districts, EGRA provides technical assistance to the MoEST to improve the reading performance of Malawian students in Standards 1–3. EGRA improves early grade reading instruction, provides teaching and learning materials, encourages greater parental and community engagement in providing reading support, and strengthens the policy environment for early grade reading.
Tiwalere II (Malawi):  USAID's Tiwalere II activity in Malawi is a private sector engagement initiative between USAID and Feed the Children and its corporate partners, Nu Skin and Procter and Gamble. Tiwalere II delivers high-impact interventions targeting children under the age of five and women, with a special focus on the 1,000 days between conception and age two. Using FY 2019 funds, the activity will finance community-level workers' efforts to consult with mothers and caregivers on the care and feeding practices of infants and young children. Tiwalere II will conduct nutrition education to improve knowledge and practices; strengthen community referral and support systems for pregnant women and children under the age of five; promote adequate women's nutrition, exclusive breastfeeding, and complementary feeding through social behavior change; construct boreholes and maintain non- functional ones; facilitate the creation of open defecation-free communities and promote access to improved water and sanitation services and the adoption of improved hygiene practices; and promote bed net usage to prevent malaria. The activity also has interventions in irrigation farming, winter cropping, fruit tree propagation, and orange-fleshed sweet potato cultivation. The Care Group Model approach that Tiwalere provides at the community level serves as a powerful social and behavioral change tool. The approach reinforces community members' confidence and the capacity and skills to act as agents of their own development process, and it fosters self-reliance. The activity will improve the health and nutrition status of under-five children in targeted districts in central and northern Malawi and is fundamental to achieving Joint Regional Strategy Goal 4.3?sustainably reducing hunger, malnutrition and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. Good nutrition is essential for reducing maternal and child mortality around the world and reaching the Preventing Child and Maternal Deaths goals.    ...
Let Them Grow Healthy (Akule ndi Thanzi) (Malawi):  USAID's Let Them Grow Healthy activity works with private sector partners and serves as the primary community-based platform for the delivery of water, sanitation, and hygiene; nutrition; and maternal and child health interventions. The activity will fund community-level efforts to engage mothers and caregivers on care and feeding practices for infants and young children, and strengthen primary health care services. Using the Care Group Model, the activity will: 1) conduct nutrition education to improve knowledge and practices; 2) strengthen community referral and support systems for pregnant women and under-5 children, including early care seeking for fever and the uptake of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria; 3) promote adequate women's nutrition, exclusive breastfeeding, and complementary feeding; 4) drill new boreholes and rehabilitate non-functional ones; 5) facilitate the creation of open defecation-free communities; 6) promote access to improved water and sanitation services, and hygiene practices. The activity will improve health and nutrition outcomes of under-5 children and women by providing cleaner, reliable water supply, diet diversity, and associated social and behavior change programming. The interventions and approaches align with USAID's Primary Impact Initiative.The activity supports the Integrated Country Strategy Mission 3.1: Malawi improves individual and community agency to an extent that its citizens become more productive, engaged, and resilient, and 3.2: Malawi improves access to and quality of health services so that more of its citizens gain and retain full health and can contribute productively at home, in the community, and at work and the Joint Strategic Plan Objective 3.5: Improve inclusive and equitable health, education, and livelihood services, especially for women, youth, and marginalized groups.....
Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) Scale-up Project The goal of the SANKHANI program is to scale up VMMC services targeting males 1549 in five districts by providing 150,000 circumcisions by 2017.
Technical Assistance Support Contract 4 (TASC 4) Task Order- Access to high quality Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) services The primary goal of this activity is to increase access to high quality Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) services for youth and adult men aged 10-49 year old by ensuring that focus districts of Blantyre, Chiradzulu, Mulanje and Phalombe in Malawi have the training, enhanced service delivery models, human resources and other systems needed to provide this key HIV prevention intervention.
Ministry of Finance: Human Resources for Health Salary Support Activity (Government-to Government) (Malawi):  The shortage and equitable distribution of well-trained, and highly skilled health care workers is the most significant barrier to ensuring universal health coverage and improving the health status of Malawians. In line with USAID's vision of systems strengthening for greater sustainability and resilience, USAID entered into a direct government to government agreement with two district councils (Zomba and Mangochi), to strengthen health systems. Given the pivotal role of human resources to obtain the expected outcomes, and the acute shortage of healthcare workers in the districts, USAID is providing direct funding to enable the Ministry of Finance pay the salaries of one hundred and fifty one health care workers and four support staff recruited under the Zomba District Council including two hundred and thirty one health care workers and one support staff for Mangochi District Council. At the end of the three-year period, the Government of Malawi will take over payment of salaries. Funding for the salaries passes through the national payroll system with USAID resources managed in a separate account. FY 2022 funds will enable the Ministry of Finance to continue to provide salary payment for health care workers and support staff recruited by the two District Councils. . ..This activity leverages PEPFAR funding, which has successfully transitioned U.S. government funded health care workers to the Government of Malawi. The use of the government's payroll systems generates commitment and accountability in support of locally led development..This activity supports the Integrated Country Strategy Mission Objective 1.2 - Public service providers improve the integrity and quality of public services, particularly those supported with U.S. foreign assistance and 3.2 - Malawi improves access to and quality of health services so that more of its citizens gain and retain full health and are able to contribute productively at home, in the community, and at work.
Expenses, Millennium Challenge Corporation Expenses, Millennium Challenge Corporation
Evaluation of the Malawi Teacher Professional Development Support (MTPDS) Evaluation of the Malawi Teacher Professional Development Support (MTPDS)
Secondary Education Expansion for Development (SEED) Increasing access of girls to secondary schools through expansion of existing schools in urban areas and construction of new schools in rural areas nationwide
Activity to Scale up Orphans and other Vulnerable Children (OVC) interventions in Lilongwe district in Malawi. Assistance instrument for the implementation of an Orphans and other Vulnerable Children (OVC) Activity to scale up OVC interventions in Lilongwe district in Malawi.
Kuteteza (HIV prevention) The purpose of the Kuteteza Health project is to expand access to high quality biomedical interventions that will avert new HIV infections among young boys and men and their respective partners, and support HIV risk reduction activities at the community level. USAID intends to support the Malawi Ministry of Health and the private health sector in the delivery of high quality safe medical male circumcisions.
OFDA-2013-Malawi/Food Insecurity-CRS-Economic Recovery and Market Systems, Agriculture and Food Security OFDA-2013-Malawi/Food Insecurity-CRS-Economic Recovery and Market Systems, Agriculture and Food Security
Upper Reading (UPREAD) Activity (Malawi):  The Upper Primary Reading (UPRead) activity will improve the reading and writing skills of  Standards 5-8 learners by developing quality and relevant Chichewa and English instructional and supplementary reading materials and by training teachers about how to use the new materials effectively. The activity will strengthen the capacity of the Malawi Institute of Education to develop new curriculum and materials and to orient teachers on their use. The UPRead activity has developed the following materials: Standards 5-8 English and Chichewa curriculum scope and sequence, learners' books, teachers' guides, supplementary readers, a supplementary resource guide, a continuous assessment and remediation manual, and syllabi. The training will focus on the use of the Standards 5-8 English and Chichewa learners' books and teachers' guides.The UPRead activity builds on other USAID investments to improve reading skills among Standards 1-4 learners by providing continuity of improved reading instruction through the end of the primary cycle, Standards 5-8. The activity thereby supports the USAID Education Policy priorities to ensure that children and youth gain literacy skills that are foundational to future learning and success. With the focus on improving teaching and learning, the activity supports the Integrated Country Strategy Mission Objective 3.3: Malawi expands educational opportunities to equip its citizens with foundational and marketable skills responsive to Malawi's public and private sector needs, and the Joint Strategic Plan Objective 3.5: Improve inclusive and equitable health, education, and livelihood services, especially for women, youth, and marginalized groups......
Supporting the Efforts of Partners (STEPS) (Malawi):  To support self-reliance and ensure democratic accountability, Malawian civil society organizations (CSOs) must have the necessary institutional capabilities to implement their work and engage effectively on public issues. STEPS is building the capacity of over 30 Malawian organizations to enhance their leadership and strategic management, financial management and fundraising, human resources, program management, and communications so they can deliver quality services and advocate for their constituencies. The Joint Strategic Plan notes that working with civil society groups is an important part of promoting healthy, educated, productive populations and of mobilizing support and resources to shape foreign public opinion. ..With FY18 funds, STEPS will complete training and mentoring activities to address CSO organizational needs identified through the annual capacity assessment process. This will include improving board governance and oversight, financial management, and strategic planning. STEPS will determine which CSOs are eligible for "graduation" and support an alumni and legacy institution that will provide free online and fee-for-service tailored training to enable continued assistance after project closure. The project will also support up to eight new CSOs which will have recently received grants through the Local works program and pair them with stronger CSOs to facilitate learning. Progress will be rigorously measured through self and external assessments.  .STEPS will help Parliament improve its legislative and oversight functions. It will help establish a Parliamentary Budget Office and strengthen Parliament's research capabilities to help Members of Parliament contribute more effectively to the policy-making process and improve oversight of public finances and government business. Civil society organizations will help provide information to committees, thus advancing CSOs' advocacy and evidence-based policy. ....
Strengthening Delivery of Agricultural and Nutrition Extension Services (DAES) Strengthening Delivery of Agricultural and Nutrition Extension Services (DAES)
Support for Health Systems and HIV/AIDS Program This project aims to contribute to achieving the highest attainable standard of health and well-being in Malawi by reducing new HIV infections; improving treatment, care and support for PLWHA; and strengthening health systems.