Fredrick Chanza
Director Fredrick Chanza is the Managing Director for Export Development Fund (EDF). Prior to this, Chanza was Projects Preparation and Development Specialist, Export Development Fund from 2019 to 2021; Senior Manager of Special Projects for EDF in 2021; Principal Revenue Officer, Ministry of Finance from 2017to 2019; Special Assistant to the Secretary to the Treasury,...
Ben Makhela
Director Mr Ben Makhela is an investment professional and business executive with over twenty years of experience in investment operations, financial advisory, and business consulting. He is currently an independent consultant and private investor based in Blantyre. Until April 2022, Mr Makhela was the Chief Executive of NICO Capital, a corporate and project finance advisory...
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...