Contribution to international development report: 2018-2019

Community action and service access for maternal, newborn and child health

The project aims to improve maternal, newborn and child health by increasing health behaviours and the use of critical health services, and by removing barriers to the provision of Malawi’s Essential Health Package (EHP).

St John Malawi, St John International, Lilongwe District Health Office

Deliver life to mothers, girls and children in the southern region of Malawi

Improve the health of mothers, girls and children in rural and peri-urban low income areas of Machinga and Zomba by facilitating access to safe water, improved sanitation and good hygiene in health care facilities, early childhood development centres and communities.

WaterAid Malawi Amref Health Africa Mary’s Meals

Moving towards sustainability: strengthening rural health facilities, upskilling providers and developing mentoring capacity to support roll-out of cervical cancer ‘screen and treat’ services across Malawi.

The project will build on the prior collaborative and successful partnership working between Malawi and Scotland in delivery of same day cervical cancer ‘screen and treat’ programmes, and seeks to support roll-out of that work in Northern, Central and Southern Regions, based on developing effective mentoring tools, strengthening health professional skills within Malawi, and extending services to rural health facilities.

Nkhoma CCAP Hospital, Ekwendeni CCAP Hospital, Mzimba North DHO, Mitundu Rural Hospital, Mlambe Mission Hospital, Dignitas International, Zomba, Partners in Hope, Lilongwe, Reproductive Health Unit, Ministry of Health, College of Medicine

Towards a Dental School for Malawi – The MalDent Project

To establish an undergraduate dental degree (BDS) programme within the Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, which will train Malawian dentists who are ‘globally competent and locally relevant’ and will be able to provide support for the delivery of a national health programme.

College of Medicine, University of Malawi

Dental Association of Malawi, Medical Council of Malawi, Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians Glasgow, NHS Education for Scotland

Scottish Emergency Medicine – Malawi Project

To develop a fit for purpose and sustainable Emergency and Trauma Units at all Central Hospitals in Malawi, replicating the significant improvement to delivery of essential Emergency care experienced at QE Central Hospital Blantyre (pilot), with the aim of delivering in Malawi, for the first time, a National Emergency and Trauma network. 

Ministry of Health in Malawi, Mzuzu Central Hospital, Zomba District Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital Blantyre Malawi

Tools and Training for Livelihood in Malawi

To contribute to the reduction of poverty, the enhancement of economic sustainability and participation in development processes of disabled men and women in Malawi, while promoting skill development, well-being and engagement in international development of people with disabilities in the UK. 

Association of Malawian Midwives, White Ribbon Alliance Malawi, University of Aberdeen, Robert Gordon University

Mary's Meals School Feeding Programme Expansion

To provide a hot meal in primary education and school woodlots to provide sustainable fuel for cooking.

Mary’s Meals

Promoting equal access to education in Malawi North

The project will work in Northern Malawi with children, young people, families, schools, communities and all traditional and governmental authorities to address negative attitudes towards disability, improve access to quality and relevant education and to enable all children regardless of disability to reach their full potential. In everything we do we will use a rights based, social model of disability.

Signal

CCAP

Access to Justice

The overall objective of this project is to support the Malawi Government in enabling access to justice, and humane, child-welfare based treatment for children in conflict with the law in Malawi.

Chance for Change

CROPS

The overall aim of the project is to strengthen farmer owned crop Value Addition Centres while creating rural sustainable business models and wealth for smallholder farmers. 

Rural energy access through social enterprise and decentralisation (EASE)

The EASE project works with local and national structures to address energy poverty in marginalised rural communities in Dedza and Balaka Districts through the deployment of appropriate renewable energy infrastructure and service provision under sustainable social business models and decentralised energy strategies.

United Purpose Malawi (UP)

Community Energy Malawi

University of Malawi (WASHTED Centre)

Colin & Alison Cameron: Girls Scholarships Malawi

To help fund girls through education.

Mamie Martin

Soko Fund

Cyclone Idai 

For Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

DEC

WeLearn: Virtual Skills Schools pilot in Malawi

Aiming to reduce rates of early and child marriage in rural Malawi.

UN Women Malawi

Books via Malawi Leaders of Learning (Glasgow City Council).

Malawi

PrevENT: Community ear and hearing care and rehabilitation of disabling hearing loss 

To contribute and support the strengthening of Zambia’s national Ear, Nose and Throat [ENT] strategy plans through its timely alignment with the Ministry of Health’s National ENT Strategic Plan 2016-2020.

Beit Cure Hospital

Zambian Education School-based Training

To create and implement a scalable, school-based teacher development programme.

World Vision Zambia

Empowering Resource – Poor Rural Communities in Central Province (Kabwe Kumena Project)

To address food security, girl child early marriage, and girls’ attendance at school by increasing agricultural productivity.

Caritas Zambia & Caritas Kabwe

Making Agriculture a Business: Harnessing the potential of Small-scale Farmers/Entrepreneurs as Champions of Economic Development

To make agriculture a business through harnessing the potential of small-scale farmers/entrepreneurs as champions of economic development.

Churches Health Association of Zambia

Zambian Youth for Conservation, Agriculture and Livelihood Action! 

To build the capacity of Zambian Youth to lead three Central Province districts to more sustainable food and livelihood security and conservation action.

WWF Zambia

First aid and renewable energy solutions for communities in Zambia's Central Province

To provide increased access to emergency care for the people of Chitambo district in Zambia’s Central province and provided solar panels for Chitambo Hospital. 

Biolife Energy Zambia

Books via ZEST.

Zambia

SaveAbility – Socio-economic empowerment of persons with disabilities in Rwanda

The project's objective is to improve incomes, economic resilience and involvement in community decision-making for 14,000 persons with disabilities.

National Union of Disabilities’ Organisations in Rwanda

Improving health and sanitation in vulnerable communities and schools of the Southern Province of Rwanda by 2022

To improve health and sanitation in communities and schools of Nyamagabe district in Rwanda. It will address sanitation and hygiene with particular emphasis on most affected categories of people including women, girls, disabled people and elderly. 

WaterAid Rwanda

Fostering a social practice approach to adult literacies for improving people's quality of life in Western Rwanda 

To develop, implement and embed a social practices approach to adult literacies education in Rwanda that can be managed and delivered by local institutions in order to support people's livelihood through poverty reduction and inclusive socioe-conomic development. 

Institute of Policy Analysis – Rwanda

Strengthening Livelihoods in Rural Rwanda 

To reduce poverty in Western and Southern Rwanda by strengthening the livelihoods of poor rural households.

Urwego Bank

Claiming Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights in Rwanda 

To facilitate attitudinal change, institutional capacity building and empowerment of women to ensure that women in targeted districts of Rwanda can enjoy equal rights and live free from discrimination and violence. 

Rwanda Interfaith Council on Health

Sustainable Economic and Agricultural Development Project 

To contribute towards poverty reduction through increasing alternative income generation activities and improving financial literacy. 

Tearfund Rwanda 

Rwanda coffee Market building for people and prosperity 

To promote sustainable economic development through building the capacity of coffee cooperatives and community members. 

Twin Rwanda

Water Filtering in Rwanda additional grant

Water filtering in Rwanda.

Twin Rwanda

Provision of books as an additional grant.

Books via Aberdeen University

Rwanda

Pakistan Scottish Scholarship Scheme for Women in Higher Education 

To make higher education more accessible to underprivileged girls across Pakistan by providing them with scholarships in the fields of; Education, Sustainable energy, Agriculture and food security, Health sciences, and STEM education. 

Pakistan Higher Education Committee 

Pakistan Scottish Scholarship Scheme for School Children 

To make education more affordable, which allows parents to continue their children’s education without any financial or economic burden.

Pakistan Higher Education Committee

Since 2010, we have provided core funding to the SFTF to promote fair trade in Scotland, with the aim of achieving and then maintaining Fair Trade Nation status.

Since 2006, we have provided core funding to the Alliance (formerly NIDOS), the network that unites the international development sector in Scotland to promote effectiveness, influence the policy agenda and strengthen the contribution of Scottish organisations to reducing inequality and poverty worldwide. The Alliance has developed particular specialism in supporting MEL, governance and safeguarding for the sector in Scotland.

Since 2005, we have provided core funding to SMP, the national civil society network in Scotland for co-ordinating, supporting and representing the people-to-people links between our two countries.

Since 2014, we have provided core funding to MaSP (via its sisters organisation SMP), the national civil society network in Malawi for co-ordinating, supporting and representing the people-to-people links between our two countries.