CISANET recently participated in an engagement with the Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources and Climate Change held at Parliament Building in Lilongwe. The engagement brought together key stakeholders to discuss climate finance, disaster preparedness, and climate resilience in Malawi.
The engagement also provided an opportunity to present and discuss key findings and recommendations from assessments on international climate finance commitments and national climate finance budget allocations. The discussions were intended to support informed parliamentary oversight and decision-making while highlighting the need for adequate, predictable, and effectively managed resources to address the impacts of climate change.
The meeting also provided a platform to present the joint communique on financing preparedness for the anticipated El Niño. The communique emphasizes the importance of ensuring that adequate resources are mobilized and effectively reach vulnerable communities.
Discussions during the engagement highlighted several areas requiring urgent attention to strengthen Malawi’s climate finance and resilience systems. Among the key recommendations were the need to:
- Scale up domestic climate financing
- Enact the Climate Change Management Bill
- Fully operationalize the Disaster Risk Management Act of 2023
- Improve climate budget integration
- Strengthen advocacy for international climate finance
- Adopt programmatic financing approaches
- Strengthen gender responsiveness in operational frameworks