ECA SME Crisis Resilience Program

completed

The objective of the Program is to provide advisory services to financial institutions (FIs) in selected European and Central Asian (ECA) countries so that they are in a position to provide non-financial services to small and medium size companies to become more resilient to crisis. The Program includes two main components: 1) Disseminating Non-Financial Advisory best practice through the raising of awareness in the financial sector about the potential of strengthening SME sector by providing non-financial services to SMEs; 2) Developing capacity of financial institutions in five countries to enable them to provide non-financial services to their existing and new SME clients.