LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-The Former governor of the Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) Charles Chuka is set to host a high level business workshop for entrepreneurs which strives to rectify bottlenecks upcoming entrepreneurs face.
The workshop which is set to take place in the first week of August in Blantyre, is expected to have facilitators from NBM development Bank, Old Mutual and Blitz Interactive Agency among others.
Chairperson of the organizing committee for the upcoming conference Trust Mkweta Ofesi has hinted that the workshop has been organized to support both upcoming and established entrepreneurs to find their way in unlocking finance as well as strengthening their technical capacity.
“We have observed critical gaps among so many entrepreneurs especially on matters of access to finance as well as technical capacity to access those forms of finance, as such, the upcoming training will focus much on the technical prerequisites one requires to access finance and run business with ease,” he said.
Some of the topics that are being targeted at the workshop are Market Research, Business plans and proposals, as well as sales.
Trust Ofesi has hinted that there are thousands of entrepreneurs across the country who are failing to break through because they lack the professional touch to increase sales for their businesses as well as access funding which is key to growing their enterprises.
According to the national statistics office 2018 population and household survey, there are over six hundred and fifty thousand households in Malawi who are engaged in business yet out of the total number, ninety seven thousand are in manufacturing whilst the rest are in trading of some sort.
The Business workshop is being organized by Christian Business Finance – CBF, one of the country’s leading membership based entrepreneurship organization which was established last year. Registration for the business conference has since commenced.
