Eib Technical Assistance Programme Southern Africa

technical assistance programme to various eib financial sector operations in the southern african region - enhancing the business ability of microenterprises and smes in botswana, comoros islands, eswatini, lesotho, malawi, mozambique, namibia, seychelles and zambia the objective to promote job creation and maximize the development impact of m/smes through enhanced access to funding the purpose ensuring that eib’s sme and microfinance loan facilities are allocated to creditworthy final beneficiaries and that the financial intermediaries are endowed with sustainable internal structures to be able to continuously support the micro, small and medium enterprises (msme) sector in botswana, comoros islands, eswatini, lesotho, malawi, mozambique, namibia, seychelles and zambia. the results so far, we conducted 312 trainings for 2,500 employees of partner financial intermediaries, 182 capacity building activities with partner financial institutions and organized 125 events during which 11,0