EU Commissioner in today
European Union (EU) Commi s s ione r for international partnerships Jutta Urpilainen will from today visit Malawi to engage government and other stakeholders, including President Lazarus Chakwera on various development activities.
The EU in Malawi said in a statement yesterday that during her visit, she will sign six financing agreements with the Malawi Government covering new programmes supporting the energy sector, green growth initiatives, democratic governance and access to justice as well as food production and resilience of food systems.
EU Ambassador Rune Skinnebach said he was excited with Urpilainen’s visit to Malawi.
He said: “It is for me a tremendous pleasure to welcome our commissioner for international partnerships, who is at the helm of much of the work we do as EU in Malawi.
“As our programmes are implemented in close coordination with the Government of Malawi, this visit constitutes an excellent opportunity to engage with partners and reaffirm our shared objectives.”
The EU said Urpilainen in her meeting with the President, she will re-affirm the commission’s strong ties and ever-closer partnership with Malawi.
The statement said the meeting will particularly focus on green and resilient economic transformation, democratic and economic governance and human development and social inclusion.
The commissioner will later meet women leaders to reflect on girls’ and women social and economic empowerment and youth representatives to discuss the EU Youth Action Plan (YAP). “In addition, she will visit a School Meals Project and a Farmer Field School in Kasungu, which are activities of the sustainable agriculture and nutrition programmes, Kulima and Afikepo, which the EU supports,” reads the EU statement in part.
