Under the USAID Advancing Nutrition project, R4D in collaboration with the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR), Civil Society Organization Nutrition Alliance-CSONA and the Department of Nutrition and HIV/AIDS, hosted a stakeholders’ workshop in Malawi on February 16, 2023 to deliberate on ways to strengthen sustainable financing for nutrition in Malawi.
The primary goal of the workshop was to discuss nutrition financing situations in Malawi and to agree on what a sustainable financing framework for nutrition should include. This work also complements the ongoing USAID Advancing Nutrition support to the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement to galvanize more and higher quality financing for nutrition in Malawi.
The workshop comprised four sessions including sessions on The National Multi-Sector Nutrition Strategic Plan and a review of its cost by Priority Areas and Nutrition Financing Trends in Malawi. The workshop also probed into district level annual and budget planning processes and ways to secure budget lines for multisectoral nutrition activities across various sectors including health, agriculture and education and discussed ways to advocate for increased nutrition funding within the district council development budgets.
We had participants from four districts in Malawi and from key nutrition stakeholders including the academia, development partners and civil society organizations.
