In order to realise the Intergrated Rural Transformation agenda, the PEOPLE’S PARTY Government will implement the following programmes: 1. Farm Input Loan Programme to provide fertilizers and seeds on loans; 2. Rural Housing Programmes by building houses for the rural poor in all the districts; 3. Malawi Rural Electrification Programme (MAREP) by providing electricity to rural communities; 4. Towns, Urban and Market Centres Programme and Rural Water and Sanitation Programme to provide potable water to rural and urban communities; 5. Agricultural growth clusters, which are critical to the development of rural economy, to promote commercial and mechanized farming of cash crops, development of cooperatives and access to markets. This will be implemented in collaboration with the Presidential Initiative on Hunger and Poverty Reduction. 6. Markets Construction Programme to build rural and peri-urban markets centres. 7. Agro-processing industries to intensify rural industrialization initiative through provision of Business Incubators (enterprise centres, nurseries, managed workplaces and venture units) to assist entrepreneurs with enterprise start- ups and development. (promoting Cottage Industries) 8. Information Communication Technology in rural areas by installing computer and cell phone centres in rural areas; 9. Promote the involvement of traditional leaders as custodian of culture and traditions. The People’s Party Government has already promoted 20,000 Village Chief. Traditional leaders enjoy power and influence in society and if we can redirect this influence to positive energies, like we have done with maternal health, we can engage traditional leaders to ensure that every girl child goes to school and also remains in school; that no woman gives birth in the home without the assistance of skilled birth attendant. 10. Implement Malawi Social Action Fund (MASAF) IV as one of the key programmes in realising the Rural Transformation.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 06:45:14 +0000
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