Malawi Government Publications
CEPA works with government on advocacy and policies through relevant departments in advocacy and policy. These various government departments have common goals with CEPA and CEPA helps in submitting pressing environmental issues to these agencies. This section includes government literature as well as materials based on government publications.
Full List of Malawi Government Documents Follow:
Progress Report on National Climate Change Investment Plan Development
A presentation on the status of National Climate Change Investment Plan development
Proposed Seed Regulations
Proposed seed regulations to ensure genetic purity and identity
Rural Electrification Act 2004
An Act to make provision for the promotion, funding, management and regulation of rural electrification
Seed Act 1996
An act to provide for the minimum standards to regulate and control of production, processing, sale, exportation and testing and further provide for the certification of seeds
Social Protection Policy 2008
This policy act as a prelude to programme development and provides a holistic framework for designing, implementing, coordinating, monitoring and evaluating social protection interventions
Social Support Policy 2009
This policy is a prelude to programme development and provides a holistic framework for designing, implementing, coordinating, monitoring and evaluating social support interventions
Standards and Guidelines for Participatory Forestry in Malawi
This document sets out to guide the practice of promoting participatory forestry management or PFM, but also establish standards for forestry extension service delivery and improved forest management as a means to support poverty alleviation in Malawi
Strategic Plan to Improve Livestock Production 2003- 2008
Outlines and details specific issues ,actions, strategies and activity targets that the department envisages undertaking and achieving in the next five years
The Challenge Newsletter Issue 4
A quarterly newsletter by the Millennium Challenge Account Malawi
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands- Implications for Malawi
A presentation on wetlands conventions implications for Malawi
Tobacco Act 1970
An act to provide a commission to control tobacco auction floors, to confer duties thereon
Training Manual for Management of Malnutrition for People Living with HIV, Tuberculosis and Chronically Ill Adolescents and Adults
The training manual provides clear guidance in conducting in-service training of health workers and other service providers in line with the National Guidelines on Prevention
and Management of Malnutrition in Adolescents and Adults with HIV, TB and chronical illness
Vision 2020- The National Long Term Development Perspective for Malawi
The basis for short and medium term plans to achieve the vision that Malawians see for the year 2020
National Forest Landscape Restoration Strategy
The restoration strategy provides
a comprehensive framework for achieving Malawi’s
restoration commitment of 4.5 million hectares
as well as the economic development, poverty
reduction, increased food security, and resilience
promised through successful landscape restoration. The Strategy outlines
priority opportunities and interventions that can
translate the potential of restoration into multiple
benefits such as improved food security, increased
biodiversity, improved water supply, job creation,
income, carbon sequestration and enhanced
resilience to climate change.
National Charcoal Strategy 2017-2027
A guided framework to address problems of increased deforestation and increased demand of household cooking fuel. The strategy is aimed at setting Malawi on a path toward a diversified, sustainable and regulated household energy sector; while reducing deforestation and the associated impacts on rural livelihoods and the national economy.
The Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS) III
The MGDS III is the fourth, and final, medium-term national development strategy formulated to contribute tot eh attainment of Malawi's long term development aspirations enshrined in Vision 2020.
The overarching theme for the MGDS III is: “Building a Productive, Competitive and Resilient Nation”. Unlike its immediate predecessor, the strategy is built around this one theme that aims to improve productivity, turn the country into a competitive nation and develop resilience to shocks and hazards. It will be implemented from 2017-2020
Tenure and REDD+ in Malawi
This tenure assessment provides an overview of the key issues and options for supporting the implementation of national reforms on tenure and land related issues that have been ongoing since 2002; while contributing to the overall enabling environment for more effective forest and REDD+ governance
A Summary of the Malawi National Guidelines on Integrated Catchment Management and Rural Infrastructure
A combined Chichewa and English summary of the national guidelines on integrated catchment management in Malawi.These guidelines address the environmental issues identified in Malawi's National Environmental Action Plan (NEAP) which are: soil erosion, deforestation, water resources degradation and depletion, threat to fish resources, threat to biodiversity, human habitat degradation, high population growth, air pollution and climate change.