Our Partner Organizations: Mefmi

IDM and Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute of Eastern and Southern Africa (Mefmi) signed a partnership agreement that commenced in June 1999. Under this agreement, Mefmi was licensed to offer a wide range of capacity building services to its member countries on the use and applications of the Debt-Pro software. Mefmi member states include the following:

Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Five of the ten Mefmi member states are already current users of the Debt-Pro software. The first regional Debt-Pro training workshop was held by Mefmi, jointly with DRI, in Lusaka Zambia, in March 2001. A second workshop specializing on training the regional experts, was held in Lilongwe Malawi, in June 2001. This second workshop was funded and organized jointly by DRI and Mefmi. IDM attended the first half of the "Training of the Trainers" workshop. 

Below are some moments captured during the June 2001 joint DRI/Mefmi Training of the Trainers workshop held in Malawi. 

	Ms. Anna Msutze, director of Mefmi's Debt Management programme, making her workshop opening remarks. Also present is Mr. Matthew Martin, the director of Debt Relief International (DRI).
	Debt-Pro experts from Lesotho, Uganda, and Tanzania, sharing information on the newly established data linkages between the Debt-Pro software and the various debt recording systems used in the region.
	Seminar participants from Zambia and Zimbabwe working on their respective debt sustainability analysis.
	On the fourth day of the workshop, catching the first total eclipse of the sun (90 percent in Malawi) in the new millennium. No small matter, in this part of the World.