Growth and Equity through Micro-enterprise Investments and Institutions

Description

Under the Growth and Equity through Micro-enterprise Investments and Institutions (GEMINI) program, NSCE designed and implemented a study to assess the position of women and to identify institutional, technical and financial bottlenecks in micro enterprises and the informal sector.

Services

The scope of the NSCE study included a literature review, an assessment of the women participation in a number of on-going micro finance programs. The company contributed to building up a database/Management Information System (MIS) on 6000 borrowers of USAID funded SME projects, and carried out a formal survey and in-depth case studies among 360 entrepreneurs.