WillPower is a consulting company that combines ICT and other consulting assignments from a strategic and wealth creation focus. It helps partners to evolve, from their internal strength, a strategy to see opportunities even in very lean times.
The vision is to increase wealth formation, organizational efficiency, and process efficiency of the clients through collaborative learning and technology integration to client organizational processes. ... [according to site editor's information; editors ilissAfrica]
MAIN is a network created by several institutions with long experience in microfinance and/or promoting micro-enterprises in Africa, including the investment Society for Enterprise Promotion in Madagascar (SIPEM), the Centenary Rural Development Bank of Uganda (CERUDEB), the Ivorian Development and Investment Fund (FIDI) of Côte d’Ivoire, the Investment and International Development Society (SIDI) of France, and IDM-Mauritania. At present MAIN counts 90 members (French & English) from Africa, Middle East and Europe. ... [according to site editor's information]
Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SOC) Ltd commonly known as sefa was established on 1st April 2012 as a result of the merger of South African Micro Apex Fund, Khula Enterprise Finance Ltd and the small business activities of IDC.sefa's mandate is to foster the establishment, survival and growth of SMMEs and contribute towards poverty alleviation and job creation. sefa has a regional footprint of 9 offices around the country. ... [according to site editor's information]
The IMLT started out in 1984 as a combined project between the Hanns Seidel Foundation and the then Windhoek Chamber of Commerce and Industry with the main aim to provide training and capacity building programmes to small and medium sized formal business. Today it has two programme areas: * Entrepreneurial Development. The programme is to accompany prospective entrepreneurs on their road of discovering their entrepreneurial potential and to provide them with the necessary tools to identify a viable business opportunity and to develop a realistic business plan.
* Civil society development. The programme focuses on assisting Regional and Local Authorities, Local Development Committees, and other community interest groups such as women and youth groups to better understand the dynamics at work in their communities. ... [according to site editor's information; editors ilissAfrica]
UP-MFB, formerly Umuchinemere Community Bank (UCB), was established in 1995 by the Catholic Diocese of Enugu, Nigeria. It describes its corporate social social responsibility with "Ethical and Corporate governance, supporting the poor and the orphans, developing small businesses, providing micro enterprise development training to men and women, support for orphanages, sponsorship of indegent students, support of youth, and asphalting of road leading to bank offices." ... [according to site editor's information; editors ilissAfrica]
Website of the Banque Populaire du Rwanda that offers "a full range of financial services in the urban and rural areas in a market driven and financially sustainable way; based on cooperative characteristics. Special attention will be given to farmers, agribusiness enterprises, private individuals and micro as well as small and medium enterprises." ... [according to site editor's information]
SEDCO, public enterprise under the Ministry of Enterprise and Employment, is to awaken, promote and support entrepreneurial talent with a vision and prime focus to create jobs and sustainable employment within the Small, Micro and Medium Sized Enterprises and thus make meaningful contribution in the larger socio-economic development of the country. SEDCO motto is “Small Business is our Business”. ... [according to site editor's information; editors ilissAfrica]
Lift Above Poverty Organization (LAPO) is a non-profit company. Its mission is to address the economic powerlessness of a large number of Nigerians through provision of financial services to micro, small and medium enterprises on affordable terms. [according to site editor's information]
The NCPC aims to enhance the competitiveness and productive capacity of the national industry, focusing on SME's through Cleaner Production (CP) techniques. CP is an integrated preventive strategy applied to processes, products and services to eliminate or minimise the production of waste and pollution and to optimise the utilisation of resources. CP activities generally improve an organisation's bottom line and invariably improve productivity and competitiveness.
NCPC is a co-operation program between South Africa, UNIDO and other development partners. ... [according to site editor's information; editors ilissAfrica]
The overall development objective for SIDO is to contribute to poverty eradication and enterprise development thereby contributing to economic development through provision of demand driven services that will create employment and generate income to the service user. It does so by creating an indigenous entrepreneurial base through the promotion and support to the development of small and medium enterprises (SME) by providing them with business development services and specific financial services on demand. ... [according to site editor's information; editors ilissAfrica]