Programmes

The project aims at enhancing entrepreneurship and business sophistication by strengthening the capacities of government and local entities to develop and operate clusters and supporting companies directly with strategic investments and better connections to diaspora groups, while also demonstrating the effectiveness of these strategies to businesses.

Implementing partners

UNDP, FAO, UNIDO and IOM

Objectives

1. Strengthened capacities of policy-makers and other stakeholders to identify and develop clusters;
2. Development and functioning of the clustering approach in the packaging and seeds/ seedling sectors;
3. Development and support of strategic investments in companies deemed necessary to improve the cluster;

Mainstreaming Migration in SME Development.

Beneficiaries

The primary focus is on government institutions (i.e. Ministry of Economic and Sustainable Development and Entreprise Georgia, Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture and the Diaspora Relations Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs), as well as stakeholders within and connected to private sector development, such as businesses and entrepreneurs, general and sectoral business associations, educational institutions, professional associations and trade unions. 

Activities

• Support to a range of entities in developing specific clusters for the benefit of enhancing geographically constrained value chains for improving cluster coordination, marketing, innovation, public private dialogue and others;
• Strategic investments in companies that are deemed necessary to facilitate improvements in the cluster;
• Consolidation of evidence-based, clustering-related policy and implementation capacities;

Connecting local businesses to diaspora communities.

Results

Expected results by the end of the project include:

• Strengthened capacities of policy-makers and other stakeholders to identify and develop clusters;
• Pilot clusters in packaging and seeds/ seedling sectors are working to enhance their value chains;
• Strategic investments in companies/ projects are developing the clusters;
• Diaspora engagement is a mainstream component of SME Development support.