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✿ 2024 - 2026 · Ongoing · Three districts, Central Malawi · 15 rural health centres
Community Voices in Health Budgets (VOICES groundwork)
Who decides what a rural clinic can spend? In three central districts, CEGIWE is putting that answer in young hands. We train community youth groups to read district health plans line by line, then follow the money to the clinic gate — using a simple citizen scorecard across 15 rural health centres. When the numbers leak, youth bring the evidence straight to quarterly budget reviews and ask, kindly but firmly, for reproductive health funds to be protected.
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✿ 2025 - 2026 · Ongoing · Nationwide — Lilongwe policy rooms
Watching the National Youth-Friendly Health Strategy
A national strategy is only as good as its funding. CEGIWE leads a coalition of youth-led organisations keeping watch over Malawi's National Youth-Friendly Health Services Strategy — reviewing policies, analysing the Ministry of Health's reproductive health budget, and writing clear advocacy briefs young people carry into sector reviews and parliamentary committee rooms. Along the way we coach young advocates to speak with confidence: policy literacy, public speaking, and the courage to ask for more domestic resources for youth health.
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✿ 2023 - 2024 · Completed · Urban trading centres
Focused Advancement of Support & Tools for Extended HIV Responses (FASTER)
For young women selling sex in busy trading centres, a clinic visit could mean judgment, refusal — or worse. Together, CEGIWE led on rights advocacy while CARE led on community mobilisation: pressing for protective laws and policies, softening clinics and police posts through sensitisation, and pushing for more domestic funding for community projects that stand with sex workers. A rapid community log captured every refusal of care and every act of violence, so no incident disappeared quietly.
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✿ 2025 - 2026 · Ongoing · Local distribution points, CARE districts
Commodity Watch: No Empty Shelves
An empty shelf is a broken promise. CARE equips young key populations — especially young female sex workers — with simple mobile tools to log, in real time, whether condoms, contraceptives, and PrEP are actually on the shelf. That community evidence goes straight to district procurement officers with one message: nobody gets locked out of life-saving supplies.
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✿ 2017 - 2020 · Completed · Urban and trading-centre hubs
Empowered Needs for Greater Action and Gender Equality
ENGAGE worked where gender inequality meets access to health. We brought community groups, police services, and civil society around the same table to reduce violence and open up HIV and sexual-health services for young women.
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✿ 2019 - 2022 · Completed · 12 rural health facilities
Health Options and Processes for Sustainability
Across two phases, HOPS strengthened maternal care in rural Malawi: supporting clinics, expanding care for 1,400 mothers, and pairing services with community rights education.
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✿ 2022 - 2024 · Completed · Dzaleka Refugee Camp
We Are One
In Dzaleka camp, We Are One combined safe community dialogue with direct services: safe spaces for women and girls, men and faith leaders as allies, and outreach clinics.
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✿ 2022 - 2025 · Ongoing · Rural and peri-urban communities
Realizing Our Rights
Adapting youth-friendly services to local realities and equipping young people in and out of school with knowledge and agency to seek confidential care.
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✿ Priority programme · Priority · Clinics nationwide
Youth-Led Health Financing and Commodity Security
When clinics run out of contraceptives, young people pay the price. Youth groups track budgets, document stockouts, and advocate for financing that reaches the last mile.
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✿ Priority programme · Priority · Hard-to-reach rural zones
Adolescent Health and Sustainable Financing
Building the case for pooled funding, dedicated levies, and private-sector partnership, including mobile clinics that bring family planning closer to girls.
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