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Malawi

Last Updated
May 2023
2.3 Mha
Forest cover
6
Active Restoration Projects
4.5 Mha
Committed Area to restore
Malawi
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Teddie Kamoto

teddiekamoto@yahoo.co.uk

Projects in Malawi

Our Approach

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Steps to Success

Include FLR as a national priority consistently across newly drafted or revised policies and laws.

Engage the public sector and private citizens in a national conversation on restoration via radio, television, advertisements, and highprofile events.

Build on supportive cultural aspects that have a bearing on forest use (e.g., Gulewamkulu and similar cultural expressions) to spur greater community mobilization and address cultural barriers to restoration.
Develop economic activities and regional partnerships based on the provision of genetically diverse and locally sourced seeds and seedlings for use in landscape restoration.
Engage, capacitate, and formalize responsibility of Traditional Authorities in land use and restoration planning and implementation.
Integrate FLR into the educational curriculum on climate change being implemented by schools in Malawi through the Department of Forestry engagement with school administrators.
Strengthen establishment and management of woodlots and tree nurseries on school grounds; assess and improve school and institutional use of fuel wood for cooking.
Support multiagency and cross-sectoral program design and implementation of landscape restoration approaches.
Align parallel initiatives within ministries and among stakeholders on restoration, biodiversity conservation, climate change, fisheries, humanitarian aid, human health, and economic and social development.

Key Milestones

Malawi committed to restore 4.5 million hectares of its land and developed the National Forestry Policy
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Our Vision

To create an enabling environment that fosters widespread adoption of the five challenges identified to
scale up restoration, through the NFLRA and the novel economic opportunities generated, restoration
enterprises, different ministries and sectors.
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Resources

12 Resources
in Malawi

Website
10/11/2022
Taking to Scale Tree-Based Systems in Malawi
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Website
10/11/2022
Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining
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Document
10/11/2022
National Forest Landscape Restoration Strategy
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Document
10/11/2022
National Charcoal Strategy
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Website
10/11/2022
NEWS - Nyasa Times: Malawi sets pace in addressing environmental degradation
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Website
10/11/2022
Liwonde Landscape FLR Assessment Report (download)
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Website
10/11/2022
Governance Assessment for Malawi (download)
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Document
10/11/2022
A Framework for Monitoring Progress on Malawi's National FLR Strategy
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Website
10/11/2022
The Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology
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Document
10/11/2022
Malawi Youth Forest Restoration Program Summary
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Document
06/10/2020
MALAWI YOUTH FOREST RESTORATION PROGRAMME
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Document
31/08/2023
CALL TO ACTION- Malawian Traditional Chiefs
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