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Appointment of Mr. Assan Golowa-Phiri as Executive Director

Mr. Golowa-Phiri is a Malawian national with over 18 years local and international experience in the development sector. He worked in World Vision International initially as an Operations Director

Mr. Assan Golowa-Phiri, ActionAid Malawi Executive Director
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AAM joins push for GBV free work place

ActionAid Malawi (AAM) yesterday on 1 May, 2019, joined the Malawi Government and rest of the world in commemorating World Labour Day with a call to end gender-based violence (GBV) in the world of

Young women mobilised by AAM carrying a placard during the labour day commemoration in Blantyre.
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ActionAid Malawi donates to Cyclone Idai victims

The distribution exercise is part of the IHART-funded Emergency and Resilience initiative ActionAid Malawi is implementing in Phalombe and Nsanje districts in response to the Cyclone Idai that hit the

Ready for distribution: Phalombe Women Forum members posing with the truck carrying relief items
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ActionAid Malawi, partners kick-start second phase of social accountability project

On Thursday, 10th October 2019, ActionAid Malawi alongside its partners launched the second phase of the SDC funded “Strengthening social accountability and over-sight in the agriculture and health

Speaker of National Assembly, Right Honourable Catherine Gotani Hara speaking during the launch
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AAM, KACODO donate MK23 million school infrastructure

ActionAid Malawi (AAM) through its Mchinji partner, Kapiri Community Development Organisation (KACODO) on 13th November, 2019, donated school infrastructure worth K23 million kwacha (about to Mchinji

Golowa (Right) and Council Rep, Regson Nkolongo unveiling the plaque to mark the official handover of the school
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ActionAid Malawi pumps K150 million towards Covid-19 response

ActionAid Malawi (AAM, with financial support from the Roger Federer Foundation (RFF), has today made a donation worth MK150 million towards the Covid-19 response in the organisation’s impact

ActionAid Malawi Vice Board Chairperson, Professor Dorothy Nampota (right) making a symbolic presentation of the donation to ECD centre
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Pan-African Parliament impressed with ActionAid’s ECD programme

The Pan African Parliament (PAP) an organ of African Union, says it is impressed by the ActionAid Malawi Early Childhood Development programme (ECD) The PAP Speaker, Djamel Bouras, who is also a

PAP Speaker, Djamel Bouras interacting with learners at Lipalama CBCC
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New Hope for Kasakula girl child

On 23rd October, 2020, ActionAid Malawi (AAM) led by its Vice Board Chairperson, Professor Dorothy Nampota, handed over a K25 million girls’ hostel at Kasakula Day Secondary in Ntchisi District. The

CEED Manager, Billy Banda (flanked by ActionAid Malawi Vice Chairperson, Professor Dorothy Nampota, and Senior Chief Kasakula  cutting the ribbon to mark the official opening of the hostel
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ActionAid Malawi keeps Mibanga girls in school

After months of walking long distances to and from school, worsened by unpaid care work burden at home, girls at Mubanga Community Day Secondary School in T/A Nthengatenga in Chitipa District were on

Tandule Chilenge giving a speech in appreciation of the donation
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Malawi Government urged to invest in Gender-Responsive Agriculture

The policy brief looks at Malawi's food situation and recommends key areas for government's action avert hunger and attain food security especially for women.

Clement Ndiwo-Banda addressing the media after the launch