Strategic Direction 1: Reduced Vulnerability of Marginalised Women and Girls through active policy engagement on key issues

Objectives:

• Actively participate in the implementation and monitoring of the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
• Strengthen capacity of local government and community structures on Fiscal Decentralization (within CARE’s work and in the central region)
• Strengthen good governance in service delivery in priority areas: health, education, agriculture and microfinance

Strategic Direction 2: Enhanced equitable access to quality resources and services by marginalized groups, especially women and girls

Objectives:

• Achieve improvements in access to quality health and education services in the central region.
• Enhance capacity of civil society, local government institutions and other key stakeholders to improve service delivery.

Strategic Direction 3: Vulnerable households are achieving sustainable economic empowerment and food and nutrition security

Objectives:

• Support the economic development of vulnerable households
• Support vulnerable households to attain food and nutrition security.
• Design and engage in programming which addresses social protection needs of the most marginalized households, ultra-poor and destitute.

Strategic Direction 4: Enhanced capacity of vulnerable households and communities to adjust to and mitigate the impacts of environmental shocks and degradation, and emergencies

Objectives:

• Develop long-term strategy for dealing with climate change, emergencies and disaster mitigation.
• Enhance current programs through the effective integration of climate change interventions.

Strategic Direction 5: Enhanced internal culture that promotes staff-wellness, productivity, accountability and quality

Objectives:

• Hire, develop and retain talented, creative, motivated and competent staff
• Increase resource base to innovative programming and enhanced impact
• Create a culture of documentation, sharing, dissemination and practice