Author: Vincent Gunde

The United Purpose (UP) and Self Help Africa (SHA] have launched a new brand and new 5-year country strategy aimed to alleviate hunger, poverty, social inequality and the impact of climate change with a vision of sustainable livelihoods and healthy lives for all in a changing climate.The New brand and new era have marked renewed commitment to innovation, impact and community with a promise to deliver the values to achieve more than they have done before in WASH interventions, water, sanitation and hygiene, agriculture, and many others.Launching the 5-year strategic plan at a function which was held at the Dowa boma on Thursday, Self Help Africa Malawi Country Director Kate Hartley-Lewis, said the new brand has a combination of the two organizations strength and expertise to alleviate hung...

Zuwere Rossi…. Spotlight Initiative has registered milestones in Dowa The Dowa District Councils’ Gender Development office says community awareness in Gender, Gender Based Violence [GBV] and Gender related laws and more spaces to discuss Gender Based Violence [GBV] are the fruits left by Spotlight Initiative in the district.The Gender office said lack of coordination from community to district level on Gender Based Violence [GBV] structures is now a thing of the past saying Spotlight Initiative has improved coordination and responsive referral pathways on GBV.The office said there is more GBV case reports made with community action being taken saying this has helped a lot for all the communities in the district to take part in GBV because they have knowledge on Gender, GBV and GBV rel...

District Commissioner for Dowa Stallichi Mwambiwa, has hailed the strong coordination Spotlight Initiative has realized in the district and community structures in fighting Gender Based Violence [GBV].Mwambiwa emphasized on the need for continuity in the programme with the capacity built and resources including mobility in the elimination of violence against women and girls at the village and community level.Speaking during a sustainability meeting of the phasing out of Spotlight Initiative programme held at the boma, Mwambiwa called for more support in returning girls withdrawn from early marriages back to school claiming that these requires support from child care, fees, basic needs and necessities and a vehicle to remain in the district for sustaining Spotlight Initiative programmes.Mw...

The Dowa District Council with support from National Water Resources Authority (NWRA) recently called for a meeting with its stakeholders to sensitize them on the establishment of Linthipe Catchment Management Committee to bring back water catchment to their original conditions.The establishment of catchment in the district is in line with the Government of Malawi’s mission to establish catchment across the country after noting with a great concern that most areas are heavily degraded. In most areas across the country, water catchments are degraded and water resources dwindling speaking for itself that without urgent measures to be taken, most rivers and streams will get dry, as more and more farmers encroach upon sensitive water catchments, cultivate along river banks and even river b...