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| Malawi RIU country assessment: Executive summary |
| Research Into Use |
| 2007 |
| Jim Ellis-Jones, Ebbie Dengu, Munene Kabengi, Ronnie Mwenda, Christine Mtambo |
Acknowledgements: FANRPAN acknowledges the RIU website as the source of this report: www.researchintouse.com |
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Background
Existing support services provided to rural households can be broadly divided into a number of sub-sectors:
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Government, primarily though not exclusively the MoA&FS at national level through to the MoLG&RD at District level.
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Farmer representative organisations.
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Nine CGIAR centre led networks, each of which is led by a CG centre but includes a platform of stakeholders including Government Research and Extension, NGOs, and the private sector. These networks operate in a number of countries in the Region.
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Some 140 NGOs working in the NR sector, approximately 40 international and 100 local NGOs.
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Large scale private sector companies including cotton ginneries, dairies, food processors and distributors.
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Private sector agri-input suppliers and marketing agents (large, medium and small scale) and
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A number of credit agencies ranging from commercial banks through to micro-finance institutions.
The current ongoing SWAP process is intended to provide overall coordination and a strategic programme approach to agriculture development. Notwithstanding these positive developments, rural households are still faced with a large number of support agencies, often funded by different donors, and often working with little coordination and communication between sub-sectors or even within sub-sectors. |
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