Lilongwe- Tuesday, 27th July, 2021.

Every few years, Global Partnership for Education (GPE) through the Global Education Summit mobilizes resources from donors to replenish its fund and be able to give every child a quality education. The upcoming Summit presents an ambitious commitment by donors to help the GPE to reach its target of at least $5 billion over 5 years. Therefore, the GPE’s financing campaigns are an opportunity to raise resources needed to implement the partnership’s strategy (2021 -2015) and to increase global education financing so that SDG 4 can be achieved.

Whilst commending Malawi government’s participation in this…

On April 26 2020, Lezita Lefani held her head high as she went back to Kanongola Primary School in Salima — two years after she dropped out of school.

In 2019, the 17 year old from Kanonogola Village, Traditional Authority Mwanza in the same district became pregnant at fifteen causing her to put a halt to her education.

“It’s funny how I didn’t know at the time that this [getting pregnant] would cost me,” Lezita said woefully. “I didn’t expect to stay home for over two years just thinking about my life.”

But in the darkness of her despair shone…

A Call To Action To Improve And Increase Public Financing For Education In Malawi

Press Release: 26th April 2021

Now more than ever the Universal Human Right to Education is in danger. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the education of more than one billion children across the world and has aggravated the existing global education financing crisis. This has upended the education sector and greatly threatened the progress of the entire Sustainable Development Agenda and specifically Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4).

For this year’s Global Action Week for Education (GAWE), the world’s largest civil society movement for the right to education is calling upon governments and other stakeholders for more and better financing…

SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT GRANT IMPROVED THROUGH AN ACTIVE AND EMPOWERED COMMUNITIES IN SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY

Before 2020, Michulu Primary School in Salima (Kanongola Zone, Traditional Authority Mwanza) faced a myriad of challenges when it came to implementing and managing the School Improvement Grant (SIG) that they received from the government.

In an ideal situation the grant, which was introduced in 2007, is meant to directly support schools to realise the outcomes of the school improvement plans (SIP). It was introduced to support the 1998 decentralization policy which among other things was meant to bring services closer to the right holders.

Through this…

THE COALITION EMPOWERS COMMUNITIES TO IMPROVE THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SCHOOL BLOCK.

Primary schools in Malawi and particularly in Salima face innumerable challenges including poor infrastructure, in adequate (and under qualified) teachers and teaching and learning materials, and high teacher pupil ratio among others.

These challenges hugely affect the delivery of quality education in the country and in Kanongola zone, Salima district. Liwadzi Primary School is no exception. It is one of the many primary schools in Kanongola zone, and the country at large, struggling to provide quality education due to high enrollment but with limited…

Collaborative Efforts in Handling the Readmission Crisis

In 2020 alone Malawi registered over thirty thousand cases of early marriages and teenage pregnancies, during the five-month school closure that the government imposed to curb the spread of corona virus leaving girls in precarious situations all across the country. One such unfortunate case is that of a girl under the fictitious name of Tiwonge.

School closures left girls open to sexual and gender-based violence, teen pregnancies and child marriages. Civil Society Education Coalition’s project, “Improving quality of education and retention of girls and children with disability” which is being funded by IM…

CSEC EMPOWERS SCHOOL GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE TO ENCOURAGE A TEEN MOTHER TO SEAT FOR HER FINAL EXAMS

Many girls who know the shame of carrying an unintended pregnancy while in school would appreciate that the case of Velentina Jackson as a unique one. On 30th September 2020, the residence of Kanongola in TA Mwanva were filled with joy and hope again as a brave and courageous Velentina went to sit for her Primary School Leaving Certificate of Education (PSLCE) examinations at Kanongola Primary School, carrying writing materials in her hand and a six-month unborn child in her belly.

Velentina — who…

Release: Lilongwe, 7th April, 2021.

The Civil Society Education Coalition (CSEC) wishes to express its deep concerns over the gross failure by government to resolve the ongoing stay away. We note with regret that recent numerous engagements between government and its agencies and the Teachers Union of Malawi have not yielded any positive results to avert the prospective dire consequences of the stay away. Rather, parties involved in the negotiations have not acted in good faith thereby undermining the principles of respect and honesty in any successful dialogue.

The above developments are greatly hurting that students and parents, especially those…