RHVP is currently sponsoring a series of 10 radio programmes focusing on social protection on Zodiak FM in Malawi. The programmes air weekly, every Saturday afternoon at 16h30. They take the form of a 30-minute panel discussion in which various stakeholders are able to share their views –policy experts, Parliamentarians, and members of civil society.

The broadcast team also undertook several field trips in which they recorded the views of ordinary Malawian citizens – including beneficiaries of pilot cash transfer projects in Mchinji and Dowa districts. The aim of the programmes is to stimulate wider public debate on social protection and to create awareness of the national process that is underway to draft a social protection policy for Malawi. The series is expected to run on Zodiak FM until early May.

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Zodiak FM presenter George Kalungwe interviews beneficiaries of the Dowa Emergency Cash Transfer programme.