MDG acceleration framework action plan for gender equality and women empowerment in Malawi: A background paper

Malawi has four goals that are off track in the portfolio of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The government has decided to focus on interventions that would accelerate the achievement of the lagging MDGs with girl child as an entry point.
This paper provides background information for developing an action plan; looks at recent interventions to improve results and identifi8es key gaps and solutions. Malawi lags behind in the ratio of girls to boys in secondary education, the ratio in terms of literacy and the share of women in waged employment in the non-agricultural sector and the seats held by women in parliament.

Publisher: United Nations
Year of Publication: 2013