Malawi Floods Emergency Recovery

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The objective of the Malawi Floods Emergency Recovery Project of Malawi is to sustainably restore agricultural livelihoods, reconstruct critical public infrastructure to improved standards in the flood-affected districts, and improve the Government of Malawi’s disaster response and recovery capacities. There are four components to the project, the first being livelihoods restoration and food security. That component is comprised of two sub-components: i) labor-intensive community infrastructure repair and ii) restocking of the strategic grain reserve. The second component is infrastructure rehabilitation and reconstruction. Four sub-components comprise this one: i) reconstruction and improvement of roads and bridges ii) irrigation and rural water supply and sanitation, iii) water resource management iv) rehabilitation and reconstruction of education and health facilities. The third component, promoting disaster resilience, contains two sub-components. They are: i) institutional strengthening of DoDMA and ii) multi-sector design of disaster resilient infrastructure. The fourth component is program management.