MALAWI FACTSHEET - Financing the future: delivering SDG 4 in Malawi

• The most remote and rural schools often struggle a very high SHARE of the budget to education the to attract qualified teachers; for instance, according amounts in real terms are still woefully insufficient to one World Bank study, in the remote Mangochi to meet the huge and growing demands. [...] According to UNICEF, whilst Financing SDG 4 requires allocating a the sub-Saharan African average spending on education SHARE of at least 20% of the budget and as a percentage of GDP is approximately 5% over the 6% of GDP to education last five years, Malawi allocated an average of 6%. [...] • Nevertheless, Malawi shows a pro-rich distribution, for capital investment the government contributed with children in the wealthiest 10% of households only 1.7% of the development/capital budget.16 receiving the same amount of government spending This was due to serious fiscal restraints requiring as children in the poorest 80% of the population. [...] 6,000 new classrooms and 6,000 new teachers • The Civil Society Education Coalition in Malawi annually to cope with the increase.18 Malawi is estimated that whilst MK260 million (around USD$18 estimated also to have one of the most dramatic million) was allocated to special needs education teacher shortages in the world19 meaning that more in the 2018-19 budget, to target the needs of recurrent sp. [...] Increasing the SHARE of the budget allocated to education, by continuing to exceed the UNESCO’s benchmarks of 20% of national budget and/or 6% of GDP.