MAMN – Malawi Microfinance Network

Regulating Microfinance
activities in Malawi

Improving access to financial services

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Membership is open to all
microfinance institutions

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Improved access to
payment services

Improving access to financial services.

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Information Disemination

MAMN acts as a resource centre for MFIs and other stakeholders to access a wide range of information on Microfinance within and outside Malawi.

Capacity Building

In keeping with MAMN’s objective to strengthen Microfinance operations among members’ institutions and build capacity within the sector as a whole.

Advocacy and Lobbying

MAMN lobbies government, at various levels, to influence it in the development of an enabling environment such as national capacity building programmes.

Resource Mobilisation

We acts as a conduit for mobilization of resources to help member institutions on the levels of loanable funds, for implementation of programs

Inspection of MCAs

The reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) delegated the supervision and inspection of Microcredit Agencies function to the Malawi Microfinance Network.

Performance Monitoring

MAMN has also designed for use by its members a performance-monitoring tool, which allows member institutions to compare amongst themselves in terms of efficiency,

Improving Access to Financial Services in Malawi

The Malawi Microfinance Network (MAMN) is a legally constituted grouping of microfinance institutions and institutions that are providing microfinance related services in Malawi. In September 1997, a national Forum on Microfinance was held in Mangochi and that Forum identified a number of factors that posed serious constraints to the development of the Microfinance Industry in Malawi.

Our Objective

To develop, promote and regulate Microfinance activities so as to ensure good governance as a way of ensuring their sustainability and enhancement of their capacities to stimulate and enhance private sector development and be key players in rural and urban economic and social transformation in Malawi.

Financial Inclusion

The Government of Malawi (GoM) recognizes that a more inclusive financial system is critical to the development of the country’s economy. Reforms have been undertaken in Malawi’s financial sector in the past decade; and more recently, innovations have been implemented by various market players