It was not so much a relationship based on “big numbers or corporate entities” as one of “friendship, human understanding and dignified partnership”.iiiOfficial Report, 13 Jan 2022, Cols 5 and 16-17
They described a “synergy” between governments, parliaments and civic society, with “1,200 different examples, disaggregated by every Holyrood constituency”, all MSPs having civic links with Malawi in their constituency, and—
“For every pound that the Scottish Government puts into the Scotland Malawi Partnership, more than £200 comes from Scottish civic society.”ivOfficial Report, 13 Jan 2022, Cols 17-18
The Scottish Emergency Medicine-Malawi Project also expressed support for the Scottish Government’s international Development policy when it was delivered in conjunction with civic society.Response 787930163 to Inquiry into the Scottish Government’s international work - Scottish Parliament - Citizen Space
The Committee notes the approach developed in Scotland’s engagement with Malawi over the last two decades.