P069 - MAURITIUS
Enhance the business environment for exporting SMEs in Mauritius, especially in the context of the EPA implementation.
BENEFICIARIES
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration, and International Trade
PROJECT STAKEHOLDERS
- SMEs Mauritius;
- Business Mauritius
- Association of Mauritians Manufacturers
- The Mauritius Chamber of Commerce
- Youth and Women council
- Made in Moris
DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS
- The Delegation of the European Unio
- The Indian Ocean Commission (IOC)
PROJECT COVERAGE
The objective of the support project was to support Mauritian SMEs and therefore contribute to the beneficial integration of the Mauritian economy into the regional and the global economies and, to sustainable economic development and poverty reduction in Mauritius.
Two-fold purposes: Strengthen the business and trade development capabilities of the Mauritian SMEs; and develop a framework for sustainability of the business and development capabilities of the Mauritian SMEs.
Four-fold Project outputs:
- A simplified national quality strategy is developed;
- Training of the selected 32 SMEs on export development and sustaining competitiveness undertaken;
- A pool of local facilitators for enhancing the business development capabilities of SMEs is trained; and
- A Framework for monitoring and improvement of the SME trade support programmes developed.
Intervention areas:
- SMEs competitiveness;
- Quality management system;
- Market access;
- Global supply chain;
- Export readiness;
- HACCP;
- Metrology;
- SPS, WTO-TBT Measures;
- Training and capacity building.
RESULTS ACHIEVED
Purpose 1: Strengthen the business and trade development capabilities of the Mauritian SMEs
- A simplified national quality strategy is developed; and
- Training of the selected 32 SMEs on export development and sustaining competitiveness undertaken.
Purpose 2: Develop a framework for sustainability of the business and development capabilities of the Mauritian SMEs.
- A pool of local facilitators for enhancing the business development capabilities of SMEs is trained;
- Framework for monitoring and improvement of the SME trade support programmes developed.
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