It should be charged with the responsibility of channeling scarce capital into selected industries, prohibit/minimize risk taking through issuance of guarantees, for medium term and long-term loans. Its structure should ensure that resources flow widely and efficiently to promising sectors that are capable of creating additional employment and value addition to the economy.
Such an institution shall be owned by the public sector in the majority. This is important to enable the institution to raise funding at low costs and have credibility with other Developmental agencies at the regional and international arena such as African Development Bank, Southern African Development Bank, IDC, etc.