The overall, long-term objective of this project was to contribute to the promotion of market-oriented private sector development in Kosovo and to foster global competitiveness of Kosovo’s SMEs in line with the principles of sustainable

development, SME Development Strategy for Kosovo 2012-2016, and Small Business Act. This 36 months’ project was financed by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC).

The services provided include:

  • Supporting KIESA in increasing its decision making and strategic planning capacities
  • Supporting KIESA in improving the public-private dialogue
  • Establishing mechanisms for SME data collection and reporting
  • Established Municipal Competitiveness Review as a tool for municipal benchmarking and inducing municipal competition
  • Introducing the Making Markets Working for the Poor approach –M4P in KIESA’s work
  • Training governmental officials, companies and other stakeholders on Inclusive Market System Development (IMSD) & M4P
  • Re-establishing and reorganizing the Voucher Counselling Scheme
  • Providing trainings and consulting services to 200 SMEs with emphasis on the creation of opportunities for the poor – men and women, youth, and minorities
  • Establishing the Kosovo Business Consultants Council
  • Training and CMC accrediting over 100 local business consultants
  • Enabling accreditation of BCC to ICMCI
  • Providing support in establishing a market-oriented Credit Guarantee Scheme (CGS) with emphasis on the creation of opportunities for the poor – men and women, youth, and minorities
  • Developing a funding strategy for the CGS

CATEGORY:
Project

PERIOD:
October 2012 – October 2015

CLIENT:
Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC) / Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC)