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Att vara handikappad i Malawi kan nog vara besvärligt. Jag har sett många personer i Lilongwe med missbildningar i armar och ben. De sitter ofta i något gathörn och tigger pengar…En del binder upp benen pa kroppen eller skyddar utsatta delar med egentillverkade ben/knäskydd och tar sig sedan fram på händerna. Det finns även de som är lite mer lyckligt lottade, som har en rullstol av följande typ.

 

Har annars idag suttit och petat ihop en lång lista på några av de förkortningar som jag kommit i kontakt med. Det blev några stycken…och jag kommer fortfarande på fler som jag lägger till.

Dessa används frekvent I tal och skrift utan vidare förklaring, inte konstigt att man var förvirrad som en drogad höna tidigare.

 

ACP                        Anti-Corruption Bureau

ADMARC             Agriculture Development and Marketing Corporation

ART                        Anti –retroviral therapy

ARV                       Anti-retroviral

CAMA                   Consumer Association of Malawi

CBO                       Community Based Organization

CDSS                      Community Day Secondary School

CISANET              Civil Society Agriculture Network

CM                          Collaborative Management

COMESA               Common Market for Estern and Southern Africa

DA                           District Assembly

DEC                         Distance Education Centres

DEMIS                    District Education Management Information System

DfID                       Department for International Development

DHS                        Demographic and Health Survey

DISTMIS               Department of Information, Systems and Technology Management System

DPDMA                 Department of Poverty and Disaster Management Affairs

ESCOM                  Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi

FAO                       Food and Agriculture Organization

FBO                        Faith Based Organization

FDI                         Foreign Direct Investment

FNSIS                    Food and Nutrition Security Information System

GDP                        Gross Domestic Product

GTZ                        German Technical Co-operation

GWAN                   Government Wide Area Network

HIPC                      Highly Indebted Poor Country

ICT                          Information, Communication and Technology

IHS                         Integrated Household Survey

IMF                        International Monetary Fund

IMR                        Infant Mortality Rate

IYCF                      Infant and Young Child Feeding

ISO                         International Standard Organization

ITN                         Insecticide Bed Treated Net

IWRM                   Integrated Water Recourse Management

JICA                       Japanese International Cooperation Agency

LA                           Local Assembly

M&E                      Monitoring and Evaluation

MACRA                 Malawi Communication Regulatory Authority

MARDEF               Malawi Rural Development Fund

MAREP                 Malawi Rural Electrification Programme

MASTA                 Malawi Award for Scientific and Technological Achievement

MBC                       Malawi Broadcasting Corporation

MBS                       Malawi Bureau of Standards

MCCCI                  Malawi Confederation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry

MDGs                   Millennium Development Goals

MDHS                   Malawi Demographic and Health Survey

MEGS                    Malawi Economic Growth Strategy

MEJN                    Malawi Economic Justice Network

MEPD                    Ministry of Economic Planning and Development

MFI                        Micro Finance Institution

MGDS                   Malawi Growth and Development Strategy

MIPA                     Malawi Investment Promotion Agency

MIRTDC               Malawi Industrial Research and Technology Development Centre

MIS                        Management Information System

MITS                      Most Innovative Technology Stand

MK                         Malawi Kwacha

MLGRD                 Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development

MLHS                    Ministry of Lands, Housing and Surveys

MMNRE                Ministry of Mining, Natural Resource and Energy

MMR                     Maternal Mortality Rate

MOA                     Ministry of Agriculture

MOF                      Ministry of Finance

MOH                     Ministry of Health

MOTPW                 Ministry of Transport and Public Works

MP                         Member of Parliament

MPRS                    Malawi Poverty Reduction Strategy

MTEF                     Medium Term Expenditure Framework

MTPSD                 Ministry of Trade and Private Sector Development

NABW                   National Association of Business Woman

NAC                       National AIDS Commission

NAG                      National Action Group

NASFAM              National Smallholder Farmers Association of Malawi

NDF                        Northern Dark Fired tobacco

NDPG                    Nutrition Development Partners Group

NEEP                      National Economic Empowerment Policy

NFRA                     National Food Reserve Agency

NGO                       Non-Governmental Organizations

NRA                       National Road Authority

NRC                       National Research Council

NRU                       Nutrition Rehabilitation Unit

NRM                      National Resource Management

NSO                       National Statistical Office

OPC                       Office of the President and Cabinet

OVC                       Orphans and other Vulnerable Children

OTP                        Outpatient Therapeutic Programme

PA                          Protected Area

PAC                        Problem Animal Control

PEM                       Protein Energy Malnutrition

PFMA                    Public Finance and Management Act

PLHA                     People Living with HIV and AIDS

PMCT                    Preventive Mother to Child Transmission

PPA                        Public Procurement Act

PPP                        Public Private Partnership

PRGF                     Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility

PS                           Principle Secretary

PSIP                       Public Sector Investment Programme

PVA                       Poverty Vulnerability Assessments

PWP                      Public Works Programme

RBM                      Reserve Bank of Malawi

SADC                     Southern African Development Community

SAPP                     Southern African Power Pool

SFP                         Supplementary Feeding Programme

SGR                        Strategic Grain Reserve

SME                       Small and Medium Enterprises

SMP                       Staff Monitored Programme

SNE                        Special Needs Education

SOCAM                  Society for Charted Accountants of Malawi

SSAJ                       Safety, Security and Access to Justice

SSM                        Small Scale Minors

SWAp                    Sector Wide Approach

TA                           Traditionally Authority

TB                           Tuberculosis

TEVET                   Technical, Entrepreneurial, Vocational Education and Training

TOR                        Terms of Reference

TNP                        Target Nutrition Programme

TS                           Technical Secretariat

TWG                       Technical Working Group

UNDAF                 United Nations Development Assistance Framework

UNDP                    United Nations Development Programme

UNFPA                 United Nations Population Fund Agency

UNICEF                United Nations Children’s Fund

USAID                   United States Agency for International Development

VCT                        Voluntary Counseling and Testing

VIP                         Ventilated Improved Pit Latrine

WB                          World Bank

WFP                       World Food Programme

 

Imorgon ska jag ta mig bort till the TS eller Tech Sec som folk ibland säger, eller som jag säger The Technical Secretariat. Dessa ska tydligen kunna förse mig med en uppdaterad databas över alla nutritionrelaterade projekt och program, och det ska finnas över 200 stycken.