Amref Malawi to roll out $28 million USAID Momentum Tikweze Umoyo Project January 2023

Malawi: Amref Health Africa in Malawi has announced that it will begin implementing a $28 million USAID Momentum Tikweze Umoyo project in January 2023.

The project aims to reduce maternal, newborn, and child morbidity and mortality in Chitipa, Karonga, Kasungu, Nkhotakota, and Salima, five high-burden districts.

The Momentum Tikweze Umoyo project aims to address key issues confronting Malawi's health sector, such as poor health outcomes in the targeted districts. High poverty levels, poor demand/health-seeking behaviour, poor community-facility linkages, sub-optimal service delivery, health workforce challenges, insufficient health infrastructure, poor use of data for decision-making, weak leadership, management, and governance, and a lack of essential medicines are some of the causes of poor health outcomes.

The Momentum Tikweze Umoyo project is being implemented in Malawi by Amref Health Africa in collaboration with six consortium partners: WaterAid, D-Tree International, Youth Wave, Family Planning Association of Malawi (FPAM), Emmanuel International, and Family Health Services (FHS- formerly PSI).