The Malawi Value Chains Project is one of three components of the Malawi Trade and Investment Programme (MTIP), a 5-year FCDO-funded initiative which aims to break Malawi’s cycle of low growth by accelerating high value exports.

MVC is working in value chains selected for their high value export potential. We facilitate engagement and dialogues between stakeholders in these value chains that defines priorities and develop action plans to deliver commercially driven initiatives that these stakeholders want to implement to improve firm and overall value chain performance, notably on volume, productivity, quality, value addition and market penetration.

The approach uses systemic thinking to address supply, demand and eco-system weakness and opportunities. It addresses rules set and implemented by government, its agencies and public bodies that constrain production and export growth. It is politically astute and adaptive to navigate through, and around, blockages. MVC also incorporates the effective use of research, learning and communication to support change.

Learn more about our work in MVC’s focal value chains:.