Malawi Compact

Malawi’s $350.7 million Millennium Challenge Corporation compact is a single-sector program designed to increase incomes and reduce poverty by revitalizing Malawi’s power sector and improving the availability, reliability and quality of the power supply.

The compact’s Power Sector Revitalization Project seeks to increase the capacity and stability of the national electricity grid and bolster the efficiency and sustainability of hydropower generation.

Project activities will support an enabling environment for future expansion by strengthening sector institutions and enhancing sector regulation and governance. As a result of these activities, the compact intends to reduce energy costs to enterprises and households and improve productivity in the agriculture, manufacturing and service sectors.

The Power Sector Revitalization Project is comprised of two activities, the Infrastructure Development Activity and the Power Sector Reform Activity.

Infrastructure Development Activity

The Infrastructure Development Activity focuses on the most urgent rehabilitation, upgrade and modernization needs of the power system. The activity will preserve and stabilize existing generation capacity, improve capacity of the transmission and distribution network and increase the efficiency and sustainability of hydropower generation.

The Government of Malawi will commit to investing in additional generation capacity by completing the construction of new hydropower generation. The Infrastructure Development Activity also includes a sub-activity addressing environmental and social factors that negatively impact Malawi’s hydropower plants.

Power Sector Reform Activity

The Power Sector Reform Activity complements the Infrastructure Development Activity by providing support for the Government of Malawi’s policy reform agenda and by building capacity in critical sector institutions. The activity will build capacity and provide technical assistance to the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM), the Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority and the Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment.

 

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  • Slideshow of MCC’s ‘Holding Ourselves Accountable for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment’ Event
    Slideshow, 9/24/2012

    Slideshow of MCC’s ‘Holding Ourselves Accountable for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment’ Event

     

    09/24/2012

    On September 24, 2012, MCC hosted ‘Holding Ourselves Accountable for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment’ with guest speakers President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and President Joyce Banda of Malawi and moderated by UN Foundation CEO Kathy Calvin.

  • MCC Quarterly Town Hall Meeting, July 2012
    Video, 7/01/2012

    MCC Quarterly Town Hall Meeting, July 2012

     

    07/01/2012

    Hear updates from the June 2012 Board of Directors meeting about the Malawi and Mali compacts from MCC CEO Daniel Yohannes followed by a panel conversation.

  • BBC World News Story on Malawi Protests
    Video, 8/17/2011

    BBC World News Story on Malawi Protests

     

    08/17/2011

    On Monday, August 15, 2011, BBC World News ran this story on the recent protests in Malawi. Video courtesy of BBC World News.

  • MCC in Africa, 2011
    Slideshow, 5/25/2011

    MCC in Africa, 2011

     

    05/25/2011

    With nearly 70 percent of MCC’s portfolio benefiting the people of Africa, MCC is investing in solutions for long-term prosperity that Africans themselves are designing.  These projects include building transportation networks, increasing agricultural productivity throughout the entire value chain, improving water supply and sanitation, expanding health, education, and community services, and broadening access to finance for greater enterprise development.

  • MCC in Africa
    Video, 7/01/2009

    MCC in Africa

     

    07/01/2009

    A brief introduction to the Millennium Challenge Corporation and its efforts to reduce poverty throughout Africa.

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