End poverty together.

Where we work

ActionAid works in 28 districts of Malawi directly and indirectly through partnership with local organisations.

The groups of poor and excluded people that ActionAid works with include women subsistence farmers, children, the youth, people living with AIDS and people with disabilities.

ActionAid’s development initiatives (DIs) also known as Local Rights Programmes (LPR) are spread in 15 districts located in the north, south and central regions.

In the northern region ActionAid works in Chitipa, Rumphi, Mzimba and Nkhata Bay districts.

In the southern region, the organisation’s work covers Nsanje, Chiradzulu, Machinga, Phalombe, Mwanza and Neno district.

In the central region, ActionAid works in Lilongwe, Ntchisi, Dowa, Salima and Mchinji.

The peri-urban programme of Lilongwe focuses on urban poverty issues and HIV and AIDS.

In the other 13 districts, ActionAid supports partner organisations to implement programmes that empower poor people to meet their needs and challenge structural issues that cause poverty.

At the local level, ActionAid works with the most poor to secure their immediate needs and use this as a basis to influence public processes and decisions in their favour.

It does this by supporting poor people’s participation in public decisions and all public processes at the local level.

At the national level ActionAid supports other civil society actors to influence change in favour of the poor and excluded.

The organisation also seeks to broaden spaces for poor people and their organisations to participate in national public policies and processes.

  • Nkhata Bay - Kabunduli

    Local Rights Programme in Nkhatabay district started its operations in 1999. The area works in partnership with Kabunduli women’s forum and Kabunduli CBO network.

  • Machinga

    AAIM started working in Machinga in 2005. As a child sponsorship focused organization, its activities in the district are wide through its advocacy work.

  • Neno

    Neno district particularly in the area of T/A Dambe where ActionAid International Malawi works in this area which  experiences high levels of poverty manifested in poor access to social...

  • Lilongwe Peri-urban

    Lilongwe Peri- urban LPR was established in 2002, under the name Chatata Urban Development area as the seventh area based development programme for ActionAid International Malawi.

  • Phalombe

    AAIM started working in Phalombe about 10 years ago. The area mainly focuses on women, People living with HIV/AIDS, orphans and other vulnerable groups. The area has interventions both at district...

  • Chiradzulu

    Chiradzulu district is among the top 3 districts with high HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in the southern region of Malawi.

  • Nsanje

    ActionAid Malawi initiated the Nsanje DI in 2005 to fight injustices and inequities that have left many Malawians particularly women and girls trapped in deeply entrenched poverty.

  • Salima

    Salima DA has been in existence since 1995. The major focus of the programme through community based interventions has over the recent years been to promote women’s rights and mainstreamed...

  • Chitipa

    Chitipa Local Rights Programme located in the northern part of Malawi was established in 2005 to facilitate an environment that enables women and girls to claim and enjoy their rights.

  • Rumphi

    Rumphi Local Rights Programme started its work in 2007 in Traditional Authority Chikulamayembe, mwankhunikira, Mwalweni, Mwamlowe, Jalavikuwa, Chisovya, Zolokere, Katumbi, Kachulu and Mwahenga.

  • Mzimba

    Mzimba district is one of the six districts in the northern region of Malawi. 
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