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  • Call for applications for the UNESCO/China – the Great Wall Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme 2024/2025

    • 07,Feb 2024
    • Posted By : Veronica Mpinganjira
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    The Malawi National Commission for UNESCO is pleased to communicate that United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) together with the government of the People’s Republic of China has launched a call for applications for the UNESCO/China – the Great Wall Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme 2024/2025. The fellowships are tenable […]

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  • UNESCO DONATES TEACHING AND LEARNING MATERIALS TO SCHOOLS AFFECTED BY CYCLONE FREDDY

    • 24,Oct 2023
    • Posted By : icerim
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    UNESCO, through the Malawi National Commission for UNESCO donated teaching and learning materials to the Ministry of Education to support primary schools that were affected by Tropical Cyclone Freddy in Phalombe and Nsanje districts. In a symbolic handover ceremony that took place in Lilongwe, the Commission handed over 4200 books […]

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  • UNESCO COMMISSION SUPPORTS VULNERABLE YOUTH WITH ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS IN TA KALOLO

    • 18,Sep 2023
    • Posted By : icerim
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    The Malawi National Commission for UNESCO and Consol Homes organised a 10 days Entrepreneurship training for 80 vulnerable youth around TA Kalolo in Lilongwe funded by UNESCO. Self Help Groups (SHG) National Trainers were the main facilitators with four others supporting them with the life skills topics. The training, which […]

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  • STAKEHOLDERS CALL FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF A CULTURAL FUND

    • 18,Sep 2023
    • Posted By : icerim
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    Concerned with lack of resources to finance the arts and cultural sector, stakeholders in the sector have called on for an establishment of a Cultural Fund in order to curb financial challenges facing the sector. According to a joint stakeholders Communique, the group is calling each government institution to look […]

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  • PROMOTING THE DIVERSITY OF CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS IN MALAWI THROUGH ESTABLISHMENT OF A DATABASE OF CULTURAL INDUSTRIES

    • 18,Sep 2023
    • Posted By : icerim
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    Between 2017 and 2018, Malawi National Commission supported the Foundation for Arts and Culture to develop a database of cultural industries in Malawi (www.foacmw.org/index.php/database/) with the objectives of: Facilitating greater networking and information sharing among cultural industries in Malawi and internationally; To develop capacities for management of databases on culture; […]

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