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The Rural Livelihoods Support Programme (RLSP) is a nine year programme being co-financed by the Government of Malawi and the International Fu nd for Agricultural Development. The programme is being implemented in three distric ts of Chiradzulu, Thyolo and Nsanj e in the southern part of Malawi. There is a Facilitation Unit with offices located in Blantyre and United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is the programme’s Cooperating Institution. At the National level it has a National Steering Committee which guides the programme on Government policy. The Programme has developed a lot of partnerships with a number of organizations in dealing with its core issues. These partnerships are with both local as well as international bodies. One of such bodies is Improved Management of Agricultural Water in Eas tern and Southern Africa (IMAWESA). This organization deals with agricultural water managem ent. Rural livelihoods programme deals with Agricultural and water management issues as well hence the collaboration with IMAWESA. This has seen the programme benefiting from the collaboratio n in a number of ways for example invited to a workshop in Mozambique and another one in Uganda on Joint Learning.

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