Strategic Corporate Citizenship: Investing in Malawi’s Next Generation (Malawi, 2025)

This report presents findings from an evidence-based assessment conducted by the Malawi Economic Justice Network (MEJN) under the TiKuMA project, supported by Save the Children. The assessment reveals critical infrastructure and service gaps affecting children’s safety, health, and education in Mchinji and Balaka districts. Schools face collapsing classrooms, unsafe sanitation facilities, overcrowding, lack of desks, and inadequate staff housing, while health centers struggle with broken incinerators, stalled maternity wards, medicine storage challenges, and severe resource shortages. These conditions jeopardize children’s learning, well‑being, and dignity. The report issues an urgent call for private‑sector engagement to address these crises through strategic investments in school infrastructure, health facilities, and child‑safe environments. Strengthening these systems is framed as both a humanitarian imperative and a strategic contribution to Malawi’s long‑term social and economic development.