Study on private sector development in Malawi

Review of the private sector in Malawi and the priorities for donor intervention. Its main concern is to identify ways in which Malawi’s small and medium-sized companies can evolve into more sophisticated entities that can provide tax income, export earnings, and varied employment to the country’ economy.

Priorities identified for future donor investment include:

• Monitor co-financing possibilities within the Nacala Corridor Project
• Develop pilot BOT/BOO model for infrastructure provision
• Co-financing with World Bank Privatization and Utility Reform Program
• Monitor co-financing possibilities within the Mozambique-Malawi Power Interconnection Project
• Consider second phase of NASFAM project or other involvement in agriculture and fisheries
• Micro-finance
• Business Development Services
• Demand-driven PSD “fund”
• Mapping of mining resources
• Support to education in travel-sector management
• Consider TA to help Malawi in international trade negotiations (WTO, etc.)