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2026

• Part 4 of 7 · The Implementation Gap

  Trained and Waiting

  Malawi has about 3,000 trained nurses with no job and half its clinic posts empty. One decision in 2025 hired 20,000 waiting teachers in weeks. The nurses are still waiting.

  

  By Skipper7 November 202610 min read

• Part 3 of 7 · The Implementation Gap

  The Hidden Brake: Dollars, Inflation and Debt

  Malawi has run short of foreign money again and again since 1994. Each time it devalued, fixed the rate again and kept borrowing at home. Interest now costs more than education and health combined.

  

  By Skipper31 October 202611 min read

• Part 2 of 7 · The Implementation Gap

  Malawi Has Led Before

  The country that leaves irrigation schemes unbuilt also ran one of the world's most effective HIV programmes. The difference is worth understanding.

  

  By Skipper24 October 20267 min read

• Part 1 of 7 · The Implementation Gap

  Malawi Knows What It Needs. The Gap Is in Delivering It.

  Nearly thirty years of national plans—and why so little has reached the people they were written for

  

  By Skipper17 October 202614 min read