Our other partners

We work closely with SIDA on a day-to-day basis. Like us, they are an umbrella membership organisation, representing and supporting Scottish NGOs. SIDA membership is limited just to NGOs but this can be NGOs operating anywhere - whereas the SMP is just for those working with Malawi but is open to individuals, community groups, NGOs, faith based groups, in fact, anyone!

In April 2024 SIDA and IDEAS (International Development Education Association fo Scotland) joined forces.

Scottish Fair Trade was established in 2007. It supports and promotes fair trade across Scotland. The SMP is committed to fair trade and is always keen to support the essential work done by SFT. We work especially closely with SFT in our work around business, investment, trade and tourism.

Orbis Expeditions and the SMP share many of the same values and ambitions to grow ethical travel and tourism between Scotland and Malawi, both to support sustainable economic development in Malawi and to strengthen the 160 year old people-to-people relationship between the two countries.

We work closely with, and help support, the Association of Malawians in Scotland as the umbrella organisation for Malawians in Scotland.

Learn more about what we do to actively engaged diaspora communities here.

This birthplace museum of Livingstone's life and work is housed in a tenement block which Livingstone and his family shared with 23 other families in Blantyre. David Livingstone continues to be at the very heart of Scotland's links with Malawi, with every past President of Malawi has visited the David Livingstone Centre in Scotland. We have a formal partnership with the centre and have three times helped secure the necessary funds to avoid its closure. A recent major award from the Heritage Lottery Fund has ensured the longterm survival of the centre.

Hub Cymru Africa is a partnership supporting the Wales and Africa Community and the Fair Trade Community, bringing together the work of Global Health Links Cymru, the Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel, the Welsh Centre for International Affairs and Fair Trade Wales.

They represent the global solidarity sector in Wales and support the sector to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals through partnership projects between Wales and Africa.

Hub Cymru Africa is supported by the Welsh Government and is hosted by the Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel in Cardiff.

Bond is the UK membership body for organisations working in international development or supporting those that do through funding, research, training and other services. We're a member of Bond's.

The German-Malawian Society (DMaG) is an association of private individuals and organisations from the fields of international development cooperation, culture, politics, and business. As a non-profit association, they offer a platform and network for interested parties as well as for individuals engaged with and in Malawi.

As a link between the two countries, the society contributes to mutual understanding between Germany and Malawi. The goal is to create a foundation for associations and individuals active in Malawi by pooling resources and efforts.