Legislative Representation in Environment and Natural Resources in Malawi

The overall goal of the project is to improve environmental decision-making by making public policy and government actions more responsive to citizen needs and community interests. More specifically, the project aims to develop an understanding of the incentives and disincentives for legislators to represent their electors, and will promote public policy and actions to encourage them to better support the environmental needs of their constituents.

By helping ensure that legislators meet their representation responsibilities, the project seeks to strengthen an institutionalized form of public participation. For this purpose an assessment of the state of MP representation in environment have been carried out. Planned activities involved capacity building to strengthen MP legislative environmental representation and public awareness of the role the MP ought to play to represent their environmental interests of consituents as well as monitoring the performance of MPs in representing environmental interests of their constituents.