The 2025 disaster declaration in Malawi reflects a catastrophic food-security crisis: prolonged drought, high prices
UNDP’s current strategic cycle made meaningful gains on systems-level integration, but persistent fragilities in country contexts and internal incentives still limit transformational impact.
AI is rapidly scaling opportunity — but without intentional guardrails, it risks widening existing gender gaps in access, skills, agency, and economic power.
Kenya’s youth employment challenge is a story of fast demographic expansion meeting slow labor market
Malawi’s agriculture is a high-potential but low-productivity system where smallholder constraints, climate stress, and market
Artificial Intelligence is transforming global development, but without urgent investment in connectivity, compute, context, and competency, the digital divide will harden into an AI divide.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping work and opportunity unevenly—without infrastructure, skills, and compute, millions risk exclusion from the very digital economy meant to expand opportunity.
Nthanda Manduwi is a Malawian storyteller, entrepreneur, digital transformation advocate, and community builder driven by the mission to empower Africa’s economic landscape through innovation and technology.