Magnus Maharg, Scottish Government SMP Health Links Forum, 20th Feb 2017

1. What does it mean for Health in Malawi?
Scottish Government’s
International Development
Strategy

2. How did Health input into
Strategy?
• Consultation Responses
• Consultation Events – Health particularly well
represented
• Discussions in Government – 10 years of programme
management and sector engagement

3. SG ID Strategy: The Headlines
• 4 Partner Countries: Malawi, Rwanda, Zambia,
Pakistan
• Investing our IDF in 3 streams:
1. Development Assistance
2. Capacity Strengthening
3. Investment
• Policy Commitments: Historic & Contemporary
Links, Scottish Expertise, SDGs, Beyond Aid
Agenda.

4. What have we been good at?
• Coming together as a Community of Practice
 Commitment to Networking Support
• Harnessing Scottish Expertise
 Integration into Criteria
• Realising the ‘Partnership Approach’
 A guiding principle of project selection
 Projects using older links AND projects forging new
ones

5. Partnership Approach
“It’s an approach that recognises that one of the legacies of
Scotland’s history of global exploration, trade, missionary
work, and inward immigration, is a ready-made network of
links to developing countries, and in particular their health
and education systems. By working through these pre-
existing links, we bring about development outcomes that
achieve significant impact with a modest amount of
money.”
Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform
SMP AGM, 3rd Oct 2015

6. Partnership Approach
Network of links to Malawi Skills Sharing based Initiatives
* Health, particularly medical education projects, particularly
suited to this model of engagement

7. The College of Medicine
Partnership Approach

8. The College of Medicine
Partnership Approach
University of Edinburgh
4 projects (2006-16)
University of St Andrews
3 projects (2007-15)
Development of MBBS (Medical
Undergraduate Curriculum)
Creation of M.Med Psychiatry Career progression of Principal
Scholarship Scheme to train Malawi’s first
ever cohort of clinical psychiatrists
SG Input into
Principal’s Long-Term Vision for College

9. What could we be better at?
• Being Programmatic
 3 funding streams will help SG to be more directive
• Contribution to the Beyond Aid Agenda
 Integration into Criteria

10. • Maternal Health
• Sexual Health
• Cancer Treatment
• Meningitis
• Community-based
health improvement
• University
Curriculum
• Obstetrics
• Clinical Officer
Training

11. Next Steps…
• Increased £10M IDF from April
• New £1M HAF from April 2017
• Small Grants 2017+ to be announced end Feb/early
March
• Rwanda and Zambia funding rounds to open first
half of 2017
• Malawi funding round to open second half of 2017