“Even without money or adequate resources, I did not give up on my dream to attend tertiary education. Despite being qualified for tertiary education, she did not get selected into the public university and her parents could not afford to pay tuition for a private university with a small-scale farming business. The story is not so different for Susan Banda, a brilliant young woman of 24 years and a first born in a family of 6 from Dowa district who completed her Malawi Secondary School Certificate (MSCE) with 30 points at Chipasula Secondary School in 2016. Due to various impediments, HE institutions leave over 80, 000 secondary school graduates each year without access to HE. A country with one of the fastest growing populations and one of the youngest age structures in the world, where 45% of the 19.1 million total population is under 15 years of age, results in increasing pressure to use available resources.

Qualified Adolescent Young Girls and Women (AYGW) and vulnerable young men in Malawi face many barriers to access Higher Education (HE) and safe employment.

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