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Agriculture experts have called for a redesign of the Agriculture sector as a long-term solution to the perennial food insecurity in the country. In recent years, government has invested billions of kwacha in the Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) and its predecessor the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (Fisp) with the aim of promoting food security, but
Malawi Government has lined up 215 new projects despite hundreds of previous ones stalling amid concerns over cost overruns from project management professionals and a background of underexpenditure on development. The Nation analysis of national budget documents established the hypocrisy rocking decision-making processes at Capital Hill where new projects are being introduced every year when
Malawi Government is diverting money Parliament approved for development to bloating recurrent expenditures and the National Assembly itself is complicit, The Nation has established. The result, based on our analysis that sampled seven of the last 14 national budgets, is under-funded capital projects that receive far less cash than what is approved in the budgets.
Findings of a new study have exposed weaknesses in the management of public contracts, leading to cost overruns and 93 percent being implemented without the legally required vetting by the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC). The study jointly conducted by the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (Luanar), Economics Association of Malawi