The 2020 Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) conducts an annual competitive selection process that determines which countries are eligible to develop a five-year grant agreement, known as Compact, with MCC. A recently released scorecard has shown that Malawi has scored 18 out of the 20 indicators.

According to the results, Malawi performed well in the critical areas of political rights, civil liberties, control of corruption, government effectiveness, rule of law and freedom of information.

Other areas include inflation, regulatory quality, trade policy, gender in the economy, land rights and access, access to credit, health expenditures, primary education expenditures, natural resource protection, immunisation rates, girls’ primary education completion and child health.

 To be considered for an MCC compact, countries are expected to first pass MCC’s scorecard, passing at least 10 of the 20 indicators, including the Political Rights or Civil Liberties indicator, and the Control of Corruption indicator. This year, 25 of the 78 countries for which MCC created scorecards passed the scorecard, while 53 countries did not.