{"id":7199,"date":"2023-05-15T20:39:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T20:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rfamw.com\/?page_id=7199"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:02:48","slug":"secretariat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rfamw.com\/index.php\/secretariat\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretariat"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row content_placement=”middle”][vc_column width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mvc_team_profile member_visibility=”style11″ pro_size=”200″ image_id=”8470″ memb_name=”Stewart Malata” memb_prof=”Chief Executive Officer”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”middle”][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mvc_team_profile member_visibility=”style11″ pro_size=”200″ image_id=”8473″ memb_name=”Alex Makhwatha” memb_prof=”Director of Finance” caption_url=””][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mvc_team_profile member_visibility=”style11″ pro_size=”200″ image_id=”8475″ memb_name=”Francis Haiya” memb_prof=”Director of Audit” caption_url=””][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mvc_team_profile member_visibility=”style11″ pro_size=”200″ image_id=”8610″ memb_name=”Ezra Dzoole” memb_prof=”Company Secretary” caption_url=””][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The day to day operations of the RFA are managed by its Secretariat. The Secretariat\u2019s senior management is made up of the Chief Executive Officer and three directors, namely: Company Secretary and Director of Administration, Director of Finance and Director of Audit.<\/p>\n

The Chief Executive Officer is responsible and accountable to the Board for the exercise of the Board\u2019s delegated powers and the general performance of the functions of the RFA. The Chief Executive Officer\u2019s office also manages tolling operations and publicrelations functions.<\/p>\n

The Corporate Services Department is responsible for the provision of human resources, legal, board affairs, procurement and general administration. The Finance Department provides fund management, fund administration and accounting services. The Tolling Department provides road tolling services currently at two sites Kalinyeke in Dedza and Chingeni in Ntcheu.<\/p>\n

The Audit Department provides assurance services to the Board and management aimed at improving the governance, risk management and internal controls systems of the RFA and ascertaining and promoting value for money in the use of the Roads Fund resources. As such, the RFA Internal Audit has both financial auditors and technical auditors (who are civil engineers).\u00a0The RFA\u2019s staff compliment is currently at full establishment with\u00a0106\u00a0members of staff distributed as follows:[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Staff category<\/strong><\/td>\nFilled posts<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chief Executive Officer<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Heads of Departments<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Administration<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Finance<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Audit<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tolling<\/td>\n68<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Totals<\/strong><\/td>\n106<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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[vc_row content_placement=”middle”][vc_column width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mvc_team_profile member_visibility=”style11″ pro_size=”200″ image_id=”8470″ memb_name=”Stewart Malata” memb_prof=”Chief Executive Officer”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”middle”][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mvc_team_profile member_visibility=”style11″ pro_size=”200″ image_id=”8473″ memb_name=”Alex Makhwatha” memb_prof=”Director of Finance” caption_url=””][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mvc_team_profile member_visibility=”style11″ pro_size=”200″ image_id=”8475″ memb_name=”Francis Haiya” memb_prof=”Director of Audit” caption_url=””][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mvc_team_profile member_visibility=”style11″ pro_size=”200″ image_id=”8610″ memb_name=”Ezra Dzoole” memb_prof=”Company Secretary” caption_url=””][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The day to day operations of the RFA are managed by its Secretariat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rfamw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rfamw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rfamw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rfamw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rfamw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7199"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/rfamw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9332,"href":"https:\/\/rfamw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7199\/revisions\/9332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rfamw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}