National Population Policy
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Date
2012-12-01
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Malawi Government
Abstract
Malawi has made remarkable progress in improving the socio-economic
welfare of its people in the past years. However, the country continues to
face challenges posed by population dynamics such as high fertility and
mortality rates, high child dependency burden, unemployment, and
environmental degradation.
To mitigate the impact of such challenges on the welfare of Malawians,
Government has updated the country’s 1994 National Population Policy to
ensure that it is kept abreast with the current population and development
issues. The overall goal of the policy is to contribute to the improvement of
the standard of living and the quality of life of the people of Malawi. The
previous policy focused on reducing the growth rate of the population, while
the current one is aimed at supporting the achievement of sustainable socio economic development as envisaged in the national development agenda and
international development framework.
In this vein, Government is committed to provide the necessary support and
enabling policy and programme environment for the implementation of the
policy. Since population issues are crosscutting in nature, the implementation
of the policy calls for concerted efforts by all. In this regard, Government will
also ensure effective coordination of the policy implementation process
among various stakeholders in population and development, by providing
adequate institutional and technical capacity to implementing partners.
I wish to thank all those who have given their time, ideas and expertise
during the policy revision process. I wish to appeal to all stakeholders to
support Government in implementing the policy.
Finally, I would like to thank Her Excellency the President, Mrs Joyce Banda
for providing the economic development framework in which this population
policy has been formulated