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...
COVID-19 Trade Impact Mitigation Facility (COTIFA)
Introduction The world is presently battling a pandemic, Coronavirus (COVID-19) which has posed a threat to the economy and human life. The effects of the virus have an estimated potential of costing the global economy about US$1 trillion which would result in a significant decline of 0.4 percent points in global Gross Domestic Product (GDP)...
Construction and Export Manufacturing Guarantee and Re-Financing Facility (CoNEM)
Introduction The manufacturing sector has potential to spur economic growth and support the goal of transforming the country into an industrialized economy with high valued exports as well as promote job creation and the expansion of public revenue base. In Malawi, the sector remains under developed as noted by the profile of the country’s exports...
EDF Donates Medical Supplies
Export Development Fund (EDF) donates medical supplies to Mpamantha Hospital in Nkhotakota EDF on 24th July donated medical supplies to Mpamantha Hospital, Nkhotakota after identifying the need. It made this donation as a gesteure of good will and a thought for the nation’s well-being. EDF is ready to render more help to the hospital...
EDF Donates Medical Supplies to Mpamantha Health Center
Export Development Fund has donated Medical suppliers and medicines to Mpamantha Health Center in Nkhotakota. The total cost for the supplies is MK 10, 000, 000 and the team from EDF offcially handed them over to the Health Center on Saturday 2nd November, 2019. In attendance were the Chiefs in surrounding communities,the DHO and members...