📋 Tender Overview
PROJECT DETAILS
Project number:
2016.2132.5
Status:
running project
Responsible organizational unit:
1300 Southern Africa
Contact person:
Silke Hansen silke.hansen@giz.de
Partner countries:
Mozambique
SUMMARY
Goals:
Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises benefit from improved framework conditions for inclusive growth.
Client:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Project partners:
Ministry of Industry and Trade
Financier:
not available
ORDER VOLUME
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
68 246 974 euros
Current project:
47 091 592 euros
COMBINED FINANCING
European Union (EU): 20 000 000Euro
PREVIOUS PROJECT
2012.2190.2
Improving the framework conditions in the private and microfinance sectors
SUCCESSOR PROJECT
not available
DURATION
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
14.10.2010 - 31.12.2025
Current project:
01.01.2017 - 31.12.2025
OTHER PARTIES INVOLVED
ARGE AFC-ADG
ARGE Como-Mierke
Arge AFC-ADG-ICC
Arge Como-Mierke Investment
FURTHER INFORMATION
Project website
not available
DEVELOPMENT POLICY IDENTIFIERS
Gender equality
Significant secondary objective
Democratic and inclusive governance
Significant secondary objective
CRS KEY
25010 Business policy and administration
EVALUATION
not available
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (DE)
Initial situation
Mozambique is still one of the poorest countries in the world. The majority of the population has not benefited from the high growth rates of recent years. Around 70 percent of people in Mozambique live in rural areas. More than half of them still have incomes below the poverty line. Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) neither create enough jobs nor can they supply the population with enough goods and services for their daily needs. The reasons for this are varied: high bureaucratic hurdles, corruption, a lack of infrastructure, a lack of services, especially in rural regions, and a severe lack of entrepreneurial skills. Financial services for MSMEs in rural areas are hardly available. The companies cannot expand and therefore cannot create jobs or income for the population. In order to combat poverty in Mozambique, development impulses must therefore be created for MSMEs. Objective
Micro
, small and medium-sized enterprises use better framework conditions for growth that benefits all sections of the population. Through broad-based growth supported by the private sector, employment in the country increases, incomes increase and poverty decreases.
Approach
The project is working on three fields of action in parallel:
It is improving the political framework for MSMEs. To do this, it is working with the Mozambican Ministry of Industry and Trade as well as with provincial and municipal administrations. Specifically, the project advises and supports the dev
