Guinea - MSME Development Project

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The objective of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Development Project for Guinea is support the development of MSMEs in various value chains and to improve selected processes of Guinea's investment climate. For the purposes of this project, investment climate reform comprises inter alia processes of firm's registration, investment promotion, Public-Private Dialogue (PPD), and banking infrastructure systems. The project will include three components. The first component is establishment of support centers for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) development; the aim of this component is to promote diversification and private sector growth through direct investment in skills development of SMEs. The second component is support to investment; this component aims to improve specific elements of the investment climate with a view of facilitating the development and investment of the private sector. And finaly the third component is project implementation and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E); this component will finance the establishment and operation of the Project Implementation Unit (PIU), the steering committee, and the monitoring and evaluation of the project and will include a rigorous impact-evaluation of the first component