President Chakwera says a Scottish fund for poor countries hit by climate change has helped Malawi.
BBC Scotland's environment correspondent
After much wrangling, world leaders followed Scotland's lead at last year's UN climate summit in Egypt.A quarter of the £2m allocated for this year is being spent in Malawi, which has long-established ties with Scotland.In a BBC interview, Mr Chakwera said: "It has made huge differences in the people and their livelihoods because they are given a hand up, so the resilience we talk about becomes a practical issue.
Further south, new flood defences are being built in the village of Mambundungu where the village was relocated to higher ground to avoid flooding but was then hit by a deluge running off the hills.Developing countries have argued for decades that richer nations should pay for climate-related damage which they did not cause.Last year a tropical storm followed quickly by a cyclone displaced hundreds of thousands in Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar.
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