Venture Capital Facility (VCF)
Introduction EDF’s Venture Capital Facility (VCF) exists to provide strategic equity investments in key and strategic companies and sectors aimed at promoting trade (cross border trade/Exports) and infrastructure development. This involves provision of capital to fund development stage of projects, expansions or buy-outs of existing ventures. The benefits of this facility include: Differentiated, broad and...
Project Preparation Facility (PPF)
Introduction This facility aims at developing and growing the country’s pipeline of bankable projects and deliver sizeable projects with significant economic and developmental impact. Project preparation facility provides financial, strategic and technical support to ensure that a greater number of projects in the country reach financial closure. It alleviates the risk by identifying and eliminating...
Hotel Construction Guarantee and Refinancing Facility
Introduction Tourism is a key diversification sector for Malawi’s economy and has enormous potential of becoming the major exporting sector for the country that could accelerate generation of foreign currency revenues as well as support the goal to increase job creation and widen the country’s public revenue base. However, operators in the sector face limitations...
Export Packing Credit Facility
Introduction A key challenge faced by Malawian exporters is lack of appropriate export financing that could support them to compete against exporters from other countries in Africa and overseas. Most developed economies offer their exporters export credit schemes and other forms of financing which, in many instances, provide support either to African importers of such...
Contract Farming Export Agriculture Facility (ConFarm)
Introduction EDF’s Contract Farming Export Agriculture Facility (ConFarm) was developed to improve the country’s commercial farming by focusing on increasing productivity in a bid to promote high value agricultural exports. ConFarm aims at assisting farmers with active farms to engage in contract farming with off-takers (manufacturers or direct exports of commodities) so that the country...