MAGGA engages Parliamentary Women Caucus

by WESNetwork | Dec 15, 2022 | Government Policies and Guidelines, Menstrual Hygiene Management, News stories, Policy and Advocacy, WASH Research

Over the weekend, Wesnetwork-Water and Environmental Sanitation Network member Malawi Girl Guides Association (Magga) engaged the Parliamentary Women Caucus in Dedza district where among others they had the opportunity to hear the challenges Adolescent Girls and Young...

Wash projects’ implementers asked to priotise coordination

by WESNetwork | Sep 26, 2022 | Government Policies and Guidelines, Knowledge Research, News stories

Organisations implementing various Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) projects in Dedza district have been challenged to priotise collaboration as one way of dealing with issues affecting the WASH sector. Some of the challenges affecting the WASH sector include...

Evidence Action promotes safe water usage through chlorine dispensers

by WESNetwork | Sep 25, 2022 | Knowledge Research, News stories, WASH Research

  EVIDENCE ACTION, a local non-governmental organisation, continues to change people’s lives in Kachulu area, Traditional Authority Mwambo in Zomba district. Through its Safe Water project, the organization has since 2014 installed about 3 811 chlorine dispensers...

2022 Sector Minister’s Meeting: MALAWI’S WATER AND SANITATION MINISTER TO PARTICIPATE

by WESNetwork | May 12, 2022 | Government Policies and Guidelines, News stories, Policy and Advocacy

For the first time, Malawi will be represented by a Water and Sanitation Minister during the Sector’s Minister’s Meeting which is taking place 0n 18-19 May 2022 in Jarkatar, Indonesia. Honorable Abida Sidik Mia, is also expected to make a presentation...

THE END OF PERIOD POVERTY! MALAWI OFFICIALLY REMOVES TAX ON SANITARY PADS

by WESNetwork | Mar 31, 2022 | Government Policies and Guidelines, Menstrual Hygiene Management, News stories, Policy and Advocacy

It’s official!!! #TheEndofPeriodTax! #NoToPeriodPoverty! Why taxing menstrual products as a luxury? By taxing menstrual products we were sending a message of inequality and an explicit bias because women and adolescent girls were being targeted got an...

A STEP TOWARDS THE RIGHT DIRECTION

by WESNetwork | Feb 28, 2022 | Knowledge Research, Menstrual Hygiene Management, News stories, Policy and Advocacy

The WASH sector in Malawi has for decades been characterized with several challenges. Poor funding, lack of political prioritization, luxuriously taxing WASH facilities, politicizing WASH facilities, lack of institutional arrangement thus no WASH stand-alone Ministry...