Eurecna in consortium with Megacom (Egypt), Landell Mills (UK) and CEI Piemonte (Italy) has been awarded the contract for the EU funded Support to Implementation of Strategies to Foster MSME Development in Egypt.

The project is part of the bigger Inclusive Economic Growth Programme (IEGP) aiming to promote Egypt's economic recovery by improving the business environment and will support the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) and its key stakeholders in implementation of strategies to foster SME and entrepreneurship development in Egypt. This will include helping the Policy and Strategy Unit at the MTI to finalise the design of the Ministry’s National SMEs and entrepreneurship development project based on RBM system, the development of clear monitoring and evaluation plan of that project, and to help the executing bodies at the Ministry to implement some components of that project specially those related to the development of the ecosystem such as legislative system, regulatory system, coordination mechanisms.

The project is expected to start in March 2017.