Commitment title:

The Government of Malawi will increase budgetary allocation to reproductive maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health to 30% by 2030

Commitment description:

The Government of Malawi commits to increase the health budget allocated to reproductive maternal neonatal, child and adolescent health from 8% in 2019 to 30% by 2030.

Mode of engagement:
  • Budgetary and financial
    Increase in Health Budget and finances
Commitment to be actioned in: Malawi
Submitted from: Malawi
Submitted by
Government of Malawi
Thematic area
Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC)
Commitment category

(3) Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities, such as obstetric fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions, including access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions, and for the provision of post-abortion care, into national UHC strategies, policies and programmes, and to protect and ensure all individuals’ right to bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights, and to provide access to essential services in support of these rights.