Investment Support

Investment support services?

Lesotho offers investors a compelling mix of stability, opportunity, and access to regional and global markets. The country operates under a free enterprise and free market economic system, forming the foundation for sustained development and growth. With a stable and investor-friendly macro-economic environment, businesses can thrive in a secure and predictable setting.

Lesotho further strengthens its appeal with below:

Packaging and Appraisal of Investment Projects

The Lesotho National Development Corporation has a Project preparation Facility (PPF) to de-risk investments. It is used for concept development, feasibility studies, financial planning, risk assessment and mitigation, environmental impact assessments and implementation planning — making them investment- ready.

The facility reduces the risk of project failure by ensuring proper feasibility studies, risk assessments and technical due diligence.

It support businesses in navigating complex and ambiguity in a large-scale (development project).

Serviced Industrial and Commercial Land and Commercial Properties

Lesotho’s manufacturing sector also provides opportunities in the electronics component and appliances market. The sector currently produces switches, relays, fuses, surge suppressors, plugs, sockets, lamp holders etc. which it exports to China, EU and the UAE.
For the electronic appliance sector, Lesotho produces TV sets, sound recorders and producers, and related accessories which it exports to Southern African countries.
The sector also provides opportunities for the manufacturing of automotive components, men’s and women’s high value garments; leather and footwear, woven cotton fabric; hosiery and hotel linen.
Investors could benefit from double digit returns in the electrical appliance and components sector.

Lesotho through the Lesotho National Development Corporation (LNDC) supports Investment prospects looking for globally competitive locations for investment by acquiring and developing LNDC properties in an effort to create work space for industrialists and other commercial entities. LNDC is responsible for the management of all LNDC property which include:

Acquiring and developing LNDC properties,
Managing leases,
marketing commercial properties and
providing maintenance support to tenants.

Investment Facilitation

Lesotho seeks to make it easier for investors to establish and expand their operations, as well as to conduct their day-to-day business by facilitating investments in different industries within all sectors as part of its diversification strategy.

Through the Lesotho National Development Corporation, Lesotho offers investment facilitation and aftercare programmes that provide unwavering post-establishment facilitation services to the leasehold portfolio. The programme represents a structured service offering that includes administrative, operational, and strategic support to investors. The programme is aimed at supporting these companies to retain their investments, encourage investment expansions with the view to achieve greater local economic impact including increased employment opportunities.

Access to Finance for Local Participation

The LNDC Strategic Plan of 2018-23 instituted the creation of the Development Finance (DF) strategic business unit with the mandate to: “develop a portfolio of financing solutions to support private sector led industrial development and economic diversification. The unit currently offers 4 finance instruments