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