Over 200 participants including councillors, MPs and other local officials from six councils including Blantyre City, Blantyre District, Nsanje, Chikwawa, Mwanza and Neno participated in a three-day CLGF councillor training held between 22 July and 7 August. CLGF together with its partners the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, Malawi and the Malawi Local Government Association is supporting various post-election training activities in the country to support newly elected councillors. CLGF also contributed to the production of a training guidebook and advocacy materials on local government, which are being widely used amongst councils as part of CLGF’s DFID-funded regional programme in the region to help promote local governance and democracy for better service delivery.

Find out more out CLGF's Southern Africa programme