Established as the prelude to the
African Development Bank's Annual Meetings, the AfDB-EMRC Forum is sure to
bring business opportunities to entrepreneurs interested in securing finance for projects and seeking project partnerships with policy makers, financiers and bankers. The AfDB Annual Meetings provide an excellent venue to develop this crucial target group. The programme of the forum is composed of
Plenary Sessions, Workshops, Business-to-Business Meetings, and the
EMRC-AfDB Project Incubator Award Competition.
Objectives:
- Increase growth and the support flow of SMEs
- Identify opportunities for AfDB and its partners to effectively support SMEs
Goals:
- To highlight the potential of SMEs
- To analyse tools used today (guarantee funds, bank credit and others)
- To present solutions to the market constraints faced by SMEs
- To show-case successful financial & non-financial innovations (credit scoring, payment systems, financial products, approaches to technical assistance and more)
- To showcase the AfDB and their IFI and bilateral partners’ activities in stimulating financial flows to SMEs in Africa
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