Ministry of Finance

The Government of Malawi (GoM) places a priority on maximising the cost effectiveness of its available aid resources towards achieving the goals laid out in the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS). As part of this process, in November 2008 GoM launched sector working groups (SWGs) as the basis for programme planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation across the sixteen sectors of the Malawian economy. By coordinating clearly defined sector composition and operational boundaries SWG are expected to generate a more efficient Division of Labour (DoL) amongst development partners (DP) in relation to GoM policies and systems. SWG thus present Government and its development partners with an unprecedented opportunity to move forward collectively in order to live up to the commitments of the Paris Declaration (2005) and the Accra Agenda for Action (2008).