{"id":38560,"date":"2023-01-13T21:52:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T21:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/government-introduces-exporters-awards"},"modified":"2023-01-14T08:04:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T08:04:00","slug":"government-introduces-exporters-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/government-introduces-exporters-awards","title":{"rendered":"Government introduces exporters awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>As one way of boosting the country\u2019s export drive, Malawi Investment and Trade Centre (MITC) has, in conjunction with the Ministry of Trade, launched Malawi International Export Awareness and Export Awards.<\/p>\n<p>MITC Chief Executive Officer Paul Kwengwere disclosed this in Lilongwe on Thursday during a media briefing he held together with Trade Minister Mark Katsonga Phiri.<\/p>\n<p>Kwengwere said the event is aimed at sensitising people to issues related to Malawi\u2019s export potential to create an export culture and award exporters in pre-determined categories. He said the event has been scheduled to take place from March 29 to 30 this year at Bingu International Convention Centre in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe selection process of the winners will comprise of a detailed, well-planned and transparent criteria. The selection of winners will be done by committees and sub-committees of experts from government and private sector organisations to ensure that the winners truly deserve the Education\u2019s awards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is expected that financing for the awards will be from both the government and private sector. MITC is looking at collaborating with companies, development partners, non-governmental organisations, financial institutions and parastatals,\u201d Kwengwere said.<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks, Katsonga said export promotion is a programme under Strategic Goal 1 of the National Export Strategy II that comprises all actions and interventions to be undertaken in order to position a country\u2019s goods and services in the right foreign markets so as to generate sustainable exports in a relatively short term.<\/p>\n<p>Katsonga said the objective of Strategic Goal 1 is to increase exports of Made in Malawi products and services to the regional and global marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>He observed that the promotion of exports will be one of the priorities of the Government of Malawi so that, by 2026, Malawi\u2019s exports rate, as a percentage of gross domestic product, is increased from 14.5 percent to 20 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, the Malawi Exporters Awards plugs in well as Malawi\u2019s products will be flagged out, recognised and awarded,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A total of seven awards are expected to be given out at the gala dinner, including the Malawi Exporter of The Year Award; Best SME Exporter Award; Best Non- Traditional Exporter Award; Best Female Exporter Award; Best Youth Exporter Award; Best Services Exporter Award and Best Financial Institution Award.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. As one way of boosting the country\u2019s export drive, Malawi Investment and Trade Centre (MITC) has, in conjunction with the Ministry of Trade, launched Malawi International Export Awareness and Export Awards. MITC Chief Executive Officer Paul Kwengwere disclosed this in Lilongwe on Thursday during a media briefing he held together with Trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":38558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[233,371,234,4299,4058,5673],"class_list":["post-38560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-malawi","tag-mark-katsonga-phiri","tag-mitc","tag-officer-paul-kwengwere"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Government introduces exporters awards - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As one way of boosting the country\u2019s export drive, Malawi Investment and Trade Centre (MITC) has, in conjunction with th ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/government-introduces-exporters-awards\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Government introduces exporters awards\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As one way of boosting the country\u2019s export drive, Malawi Investment and Trade Centre (MITC) has, in conjunction with th ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/government-introduces-exporters-awards\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-01-13T21:52:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-14T08:04:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1673634168.83.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1442\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"596\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/government-introduces-exporters-awards#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/government-introduces-exporters-awards\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Government introduces exporters awards\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-13T21:52:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-14T08:04:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/government-introduces-exporters-awards\"},\"wordCount\":388,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/government-introduces-exporters-awards#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1673634168.83.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Malawi\",\"Mark Katsonga Phiri\",\"MITC\",\"Officer Paul Kwengwere\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/government-introduces-exporters-awards#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/government-introduces-exporters-awards\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/government-introduces-exporters-awards\",\"name\":\"Government introduces exporters awards - 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