The Malawi Council for Disability Affairs (MACODA) a Statutory Corporation established by an Act of Parliament, the Persons with Disabilities act (No. 4 of 2024), to protect and promote fundamental rights and freedoms of persons with disabilities. MACODA is an enforcement agency of the Act and is particularly legally mandated to investigate and carry out inquiries into violations of rights of persons with disabilities. Among the Council’s functions for disability programming and steering disability mainstreaming in the Malawi’s development include promoting multisectoral coordination and collaboration; development of standards and guidelines on a rights-based for disability service provision; regulating disability services and programmes; promotion of measures and interventions aimed at promoting realisation of rights of persons with disabilities and registration of persons with disabilities as well as organisations, associations and institutions implementing disability programmes including those that provide specialised services to persons with disabilities.