Rural Small and Microenterprise Promotion Project
Rural Small and Micro-enterprise Promotion Project
Rural Small and Microenterprise Promotion Project
This pilot project was intended to:
- put in place a sustainable framework for increasing productivity, profitability and competitiveness among microenterprises managed by the rural poor
- improve access to training in management and technology
- improve the macroeconomic and regulatory framework
- develop linkages between the Government and private-sector producers
The project contributed to strengthening more than 4,000 existing rural small and microenterprises and fostering new initiatives. The lessons learned from this experience, which served as a basis for designing Phase II, can be summarized as follows:
- all groups, particularly the most vulnerable, must be taken into account in designing projects for rural areas
- it is important to balance job creation with developing agricultural production, which complement each other
- one of the conditions for the success of development activities is community involvement in making decisions and identifying needs
- training beneficiaries gives good results, but must be continued
- production, processing and marketing technologies must be responsive to the needs of entrepreneurs
See also:
Rural Small and Microenterprise Promotion Project - Phase II
Source: IFAD
