The Feminist Macroeconomic Alliance Malawi Blog
About FEAM
FEAM is a women’s rights centered coalition working to deepen knowledge, capacity and skills of women and young women and their allies to engage and influence macro-economic policies and frameworks including debt management from a feminist perspective to achieve economic justice for women in Malawi. The alliance came about as a realization that national coordination is key to achieving economic justice for women.
FEAM’s founding members are ActionAid Malawi, NGO Gender Coordination Network (NGOGCN), Malawi Human Rights Resource Centre (MHRRC), For Equality (FE), and Activista Youth Network with UN Women as a vital collaborative partner since the establishment of FEAM. Recently, the alliance has been joined by progressive women’s rights and gender focused institutions such as Care International and Christian Aid.
What we do
FEAM has been actively engaging with both processes through partner organizations, specifically, focusing on the impact of Malawi’s macroeconomic policy framework on the lives of young women.
This work has documented momentous presentations and campaigns on Austerity, Tax justice and Debt justice, and builds on the Feminist Macroeconomics Academy and its subsidiary programmes as facilitated by the founding organizations of the alliance.
So far, FEAM has presented the case of young women at the 2022 and 2023 IMF/WB Spring meetings, 2022 IMF/WB Annual meetings, 2022 and 2023 International Associate for Feminist Economics, and the Global Days of Action for Tax Justice 2023.
Letters: The impact of the 44% Devaluation in Malawi
In November 2023, the Government of Malawi announced a 44% devaluation, following the 25% devaluation in 2022 and the 2.68% depreciation in June 2023. This 44% devaluation was immediately followed by an announcement of the IMF Extended Credit Facility of $174 Million to Malawi. As part of this agreement, the Government of Malawi has agreed to additional austerity measures and a prioritization of economic cushions to the private sector over the public sector.
In response to the ongoing economic shocks and the growing push for austerity measures by the IMF, the Young Urban Women’s movement, under the auspices of the Feminist Macroeconomic Alliance of Malawi (FEAM), aims to strengthen its work advocating for the feminist wellbeing economy. This campaign, as part of this work, shares the lived experiences of women in Malawi under the impact of austerity measures, as per the policy advice from the IMF and World Bank.
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