Southern African Trade and Connectivity Project (Malawi)
Components
Reduce Trade Costs
- Upgrade of ASYCUDA World System for the Malawi Revenue Authority
- Procurement and installation of Power Backup at Border Crossing Points across the country
- Procurement and installation of equipment for the Malawi Revenue Authority’s Disaster Recovery site
- Automation of Management of Import and Export of products for agricultural trade (DARS and DAHLD departments)
- Development and installation of Border Management Information System (Immigration Department)
- Facilitating customs Data Matching/Exchange between Republic of Malawi and Republic of Mozambique
- Development and implementation of the Inland Examination Centres in Blantyre and Lilongwe
- Provision of support to the expansion and rehabilitation of Muloza border post into a One-Stop Border Post
Strengthening Transport Infrastructure to Improve Market Access
- Rehabilitation of Liwonde-Matawale (M003) Road
- Procurement of road safety equipment
- Building semi-permanent weighbridge stations including multi-deck scales for inland stations
- Building road safety management and institutional capacity for enforcing traffic laws
- Piloting iRAP star rating for school programme
Strengthen value chains for regional integration
- Improve the productivity and market opportunities for the private sector, smallholder farmers, and cross-border traders along specific value chains through a regional integration approach.
- Building capacity for small-scale cross-border traders
- Developing bank and micro-finance institutions, innovative financial institutions to support opportunities for regional integration
- Extending innovation grants, matching grants, and technical assistance to selected beneficiaries to support demand risk sharing solutions
Strengthen regional coordination and project implementation
- Supporting the republic of Malawi to participate in the Nacala Development Corridor Management Committee activities
- Provision of support to the Nacala Development Corridor secretariat
- Establishing a Corridor Performance Measurement and Monitoring system
- Establishment of a Corridor Trip Monitoring System (CTMS).
- Development of Climate and Pandemic Emergency Response Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Removing non-trade barriers between the Republic of Malawi and Republic of Mozambique