Twinning BDS with Finance (on behalf of IFC and seco):
IFC is implementing a number of projects geared to the development of Small, Micro and Medium Enterprises (SMME) specially addressing the needs of Historically Deprived Individuals (HDI, black owned businesses and women) to access financial services. The South Africa SME Banking program is financed by seco and has three major components. Swisscontact implements the component:
Twin BDS with bank finance: Work with non-bank financial institutions to identify the business services needs of their small business clients, and identify and accredit commercial service providers to meet those needs. The objective of the component is to develop support capacity within financial institutions as well as within external services providers (BDS providers) in order to reduce barriers of access to finance for SMMEs.
Project Manager Mr. Neo Seleke: ns@swisscontact.co.za
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"This Project has been concluded and Swisscontact has handed over the remaining activities to IFC to monitor and evaluate. Interested SMEs are advised to either contact the IFC directly or one of the BDS Providers from the list provided"