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Aubrey Mchulu, 05 June 2003
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Britain said on Thursday it has committed about K21.2 billion (141 million pounds) to Malawi over a three-year programme to support the country’s development in the areas of health, education, livelihoods and pro-poor governance.
British High Commission public diplomacy assistant Chipiliro Kalebe-Nyamongo said in a statement that the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) will formally launch its country assistance plan (CAP) for support to Malawi on Monday.
She said the CAP, to be launched by Finance Minister Friday Jumbe and DFID’s director general (Regional Programmes) Nicola Brewer, sets out how DFID aims to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development goals.
“The CAP starts from the basis of the partner country’s PRSP [Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper] and sets out in detail how DFID will work as part of international development effort to support a country’s strategy for reducing poverty,” reads the statement in part.
Kalebe-Nyamongo also said an estimated K6.7 billion (45 million pounds) “may be available” over the same three-year programme in the form of budget support subject to the Malawi Government demonstrating satisfactory progress with macroeconomic and financial management.
She said DFID will also support efforts to achieve the objectives of Malawi’s PRSP.
Internationally agreed millennium goals to be achieved by 2015, among other things, seek to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/Aids, malaria and other diseases and ensure environmental sustainability.
Malawi’s donors, including Britain, are currently withholding about K7 billion (US$75 million) in balance of payment support for the 2002/2003 national budget due to government’s failure to control expenditure.
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