Ministry of Industry and Trade

Preamble

The vision of the current leadership is to turn Malawi from a predominantly importing and consuming economy to a predominantly producing and exporting nation. In pursuit of this vision, the Ministry of Trade and Private Sector development through its Strategic Plan envisages to play a pivotal role in ensuring that trade and investments deliver on this national vision. The vision and mission of the ministry will be the guiding factors to achieve the ministry's objectives by using good Strategies.

The ministry also has specific functions that it performs.
Vision
To have a dynamic, innovative and globally competitive private sector that contributes to sustainable economic growth.
Mission
To promote, support and facilitate trade and private sector investment in both existing and identified potential growth sectors thereby increasing supply of value added goods and services for domestic and international markets while sustaining competitive advantage.
Functions for the Ministry
  • To create a conducive environment for the growth and development of trade in Malawi.
  •  Facilitate market access for Malawi's exports
  •  Formulate, implement and review industrial policies and legislation
  •  Implement and monitor the operations and performance of EPZ progammes
  •  Coordinate Spatial development Initiatives
  •  Coordinate investment promotion and product development
  •  Formulate, implement and review policies and legislation for the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) sector
  •  Coordinate the delivery of support services to the MSME sector
  •  Enhance product development and market access to the MSME sector 
  •  Monitor and evaluate the performance of the MSME sector
  •  Formulate, implement and review policies and legislation for cooperative development
  •  Promote, train and register cooperatives
  •  Enhance product development and market access for cooperatives
  •  Provision of Economic, Statistical and Information Management Services
  •  Coordination, monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of trade, industry, cooperative and MSMEs policies and Programmes.
Key Support Organisation

  • DEMAT – Development of Malawian Enterprises Trust

  • MBS – Malawi Bureau of Standards

  • MEPC – Malawi Export Promotion Council

  • MIPA – Malawi Investment Promotion Agency

  • MIRTDC – Malawi Industrial Research and Technology Development Centre

  • SEDOM – Small Enterprises Development Organisation of Malawi