In 2024, Malawi experienced a polycrisis of climate induced disasters and soaring debt crisis, leading to increased poverty levels. Vulnerable groups including women and the youth were particularly exposed and pushed below poverty line. The development affected the attainment of the global goals including poverty reduction.
In response, ActionAid Malawi and partners implemented interventions around climate justice campaigns by targeting government and world leaders in the global north to take pragmatic actions to supported those pushed on the blink by unjust policies and commit to meaningful operationalization of the Loss and Damage Fund in the best interest of climate vulnerable countries in the global south.
Based on our human rights and feminist approaches to programming including addressing humanitarian issues caused by climate crisis, ActionAid Malawi and partners invested interventions in addressing gender-based violence, poverty and oppression through building individual and collective power of women and the youth, their allies and like-minded social movements.
This was bolstered by the launch of our Country Strategy Paper (CSP) VI, entitled: Transforming Systems for Social Justice, in August, 2025. The CSP VI—to run from 2024 to 2028—invigorates and deepens our commitment towards advancing gender-responsive public services, economic and climate justice and women-led and localized humanitarian action.