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A Digital Platform Program
The USAID-funded ‘Enhanced Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Investment and Export Readiness Through a Digital Platform’ program aims to increase the investor, export readiness, and competitiveness of 100 SMEs in nine Southern African countries.
The program leverages the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), a United States Trade Act that significantly enhances market access to the US for qualifying Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, and is valid until 2025, to drive export trade for the SMEs. Priority industry sectors include Agriculture, Agro-processing, Textiles, and apparel.
The objectives of this new AWIEF program are to:
The program will help strengthen participants’ governance, regulatory compliance, and risk management capabilities.
The 8-week program will be implemented as an online training course through the AWIEF digital platform – the AWIEF Community.