Social Protection for the SDGs in Malawi: Accelerating inclusive progress towards the SDGs

By 2022, the project would ensure that the Malawi Social Protection System is adapted to meet emergency food needs together with the humanitarian sector to reduce the vulnerability of those left behind. It includes an iterative design of new shock-responsive social protection model with the testing in a real-life crisis, with the immediate impact on 5,000 households that are most vulnerable to shocks. The Joint programme will also support the development of a financing ecosystem and national financing infrastructure toward increased domestic resource mobilization, and seeks the adoption of new legal framework to ensure the institutional and financial capacity for sustaining the results. It would directly support the key social protection framework – the Malawi National Social Support Programme II (MNSSP II), and thus has Government’s commitments, whilst ensuring that key donors and partners (e.g. the World Bank) will be engaged.

Project symbol

MWI/19/50/UND

Admin unit

CO-Lusaka

Start date

01/01/2020

End date

28/02/2022

Total allocation

380920

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

380803

Development Partners

Multi Partner Trust Fund Office, UNDP

Country/Countries

Malawi

Outcomes

Outcome 8: Comprehensive and sustainable social protection for all