Malawi - Statistical Capacity Building to Conduct Economic Census Project

The project is to assist the Government of Malawi through the National Statistical Office to build their capacity for conducting an economic census. This support builds on the achievements of capacity development of the national statistical system financed by the Government of Malawi with coordinated support from development partners including the AfDB. The support will focus on (i) field data collection and data capture, processing, editing and tabulation; and (ii) in-depth thematic analysis and reports dissemination, as well as (iii) accessing reliable data for policy and decision making, development planning and monitoring. Otherwise, the project will help the Government to generate reliable data from a sufficiently representative sample of enterprises and other institutional sectors that will enable production of thematic reports on production, consumption, investment and other -economic variables. The total cost of the project is estimated at UA 0.91 million, net of taxes and duties. The Bank will provide UA 0.76 Million from the ADF 13 Grant allocation for Malawi.