World Bank explores tie-up with SMEDA in building skills

Smeda's senior management team including Sheharyar Tahir, Raja Hassanein Javed and Javed Afzal attended the meeting.Both sides discussed possible mechanisms for formalising their cooperation, including a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) or other appropriate collaborative arrangements, to support SME development in Pakistan.Sheharyar Tahir briefed the visiting delegation on the key pillars of the SME Policy 2021 and its action plan, highlighting Smeda's ongoing initiatives under its three-year business plan.

He explained that the plan placed particular emphasis on underserved areas and aimed to address the key challenges faced by SMEs through targeted development interventions.The briefing covered priority areas such as access to finance, export readiness, women entrepreneurship and microenterprise development, digitalisation and e-commerce, the National Subcontracting Development Programme, and grant-based support for SME certifications.

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