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The Government of Malawi adopted the Social Cash Transfer Strategic Plan (2022-2027) in November 2022. The plan aims to increase coverage of the total population under the Social Cash Transfer (SCT) programme from 10 per cent currently to 15 per cent an...

Outcome achieved

The Government of Malawi adopted the Social Cash Transfer Strategic Plan (2022-2027) in November 2022. The plan aims to increase coverage of the total population under the Social Cash Transfer (SCT) programme from 10 per cent currently to 15 per cent and to improve adequacy of social cash transfer benefits by implementing mechanisms to enable households to access complementary services enhancing resilience and building impacts of cash transfers through building human capital. The plan will also enable implementation of mechanisms for regular adjustment of the transfer value to account for inflation and maintain real value of cash transfers.

ILO's contribution to the outcome

With support from the Government of Ireland, the ILO provided normative feedback on development of the Social Cash Transfer Strategic Plan in the technical working group. The inputs from the ILO have been incorporated in the final version of the plan that was launched by the Government of Malawi in November 2022. The ILO is currently supporting the operationalisation of the plan through development of a costed implementation framework that will enhance operationalisation and administration of social protection service delivery.

Gender equality & non-discrimination

The Social Cash Transfer Strategic Plan contributes to strengthening gender inclusive social protection by recognizing that poverty is higher among female headed households than among the general population thereby advocating the principle of inclusivity in promoting access to social protection. The social protection policy measures propose the use of participatory strategies to involve women men and youth in design, implementation, monitoring and review of programs and collection of adequate and relevant sex-disaggregated data as well as the use of gender responsive indicators and monitoring processes as a minimum standard for programme implementation.

SDG

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Goals
  • End poverty in all its forms everywhere
  • Reduce inequality within and among countries
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