a)    Grant funding
While we learn diverse ways of dealing with new challenges in management of Grants, we only remain a conduit of resources between the donor and beneficiaries and it is not empowering if you compare to our role during the DIHR support for grants. However, the Centre receives funding from Royal Norwegian Embassy in Malawi. The funds are the granted to Community Based Organisations and Networks to enable them implement programmes on GBV, human rights and sexual and reproductive health.

b)    Study Tour Grants
The Study tour grants provided a chance for exchange of information for most CSOs and no development partner has taken up that role ever since DIHR stopped funding that component through MHRRC

 c)   Internships and professional attachments
This was a DIHR initiative which needs to be sustained but it has become increasingly difficult for the centre to sustain this because of lack of resources and then it remains erratic. While we continue getting the professional interns from United States of America, Canada and Denmark. Their time, however, has to be shared by two or more institutions leaving us with very little option other than to wait, hence the need to have more local interns than international.

d)   Research in support of human rights activities
Although efforts are being made to source resources locally for research it has again been difficult to proceed with such agendas realizing that we have no budget line for that especially from DIHR.    

c)    Library Services:
The original idea of the Library was really to provide as much information on human rights as possible to University Students, The courts and NGOs dealing with human rights issues. Unfortunately, DIHR pulled out and the center had to go it alone. As things are now, the Librarian who is managing the Library does not have a permanent contract with MHRRC due to lack of resources despite having high patronage of the University students at the Library. MHRRC would like to recommend that DIHR has to revisit that decision of completely pulling out on the Library support  

Coordination of National Networks:
During DIHR support MHRRC had also a budget line on support to networks but now we have to work without any budget and it becomes very difficult to convince our clientele on this.

Participation in Networks:
While participation can be supported to certain extent by external partners it is also necessary to note as a capacity Building organization that we need to be quite equipped in terms of financial resources, the case in point is that of the whole exercise of CIVICUS which is at a stand still since we exhausted the DIHR funding last year, no new partner is willing to take up this imitative.