A high-level joint monitoring which brought together Parliament (Social and Community Affairs Committee of Parliament and Education Committee), Ministries (Ministry of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare, Ministry of Education), Local Council (Zomba District Council) CSOs. The high-level joint monitoring focused on Early Childhood Development services and P-Class in Zomba District Council.
Zomba District Council, like any other council has faced significant challenges in provision of Early Childhood Development services in the district due to inadequate financing. Despite registering a large number of children attending the current existing CBCCs, the CBCCs lack food to feed the children on daily basis, most of the care givers volunteer themselves which is not sustainable, these caregivers also lack the proper capacity to ably offer the ECE services to the children.