Webinar 1: Strengthening MSMEs for Economic Resilience and Sustainable Development

Description: Micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are dramatically affected by the coronavirus pandemic all over the world. The crisis has revealed their vulnerability to the supply and demand side, and as per a recent OECD paper, there is a serious risk that more than 50 percent of them will not survive the next few months.

In low-income countries, formal and informal MSMEs are significant engines of growth, employment, innovation, and social development. This webinar will showcase public and private sector initiatives to support MSMEs in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, and discuss how governments and development partners could further engage with the private sector to pave the way to a quicker and environmentally sustainable economy recovery in developing countries.

Speakers:

• Facilitator: Jeske van Seters, Head of Programme Private Sector Engagement, ECDPM
• Emmanuel Moyart, Team Leader, DEVCO C4 Trade and Private Sector Facility
• Said Abu Hijleh, DAI Director, Palestinian Territories
• Carole Karuga, CEO of the Kenyan Private Sector Organisation KEPSA
• Eric Eloundou Ngah, Board member, Cameroon Business Patronage Movement (E.CAM)

Recording:

Supporting Documents and Links:

• Powerpoint slides
• Palestian Territories - The Innovative Private Sector Development (IPSD) project’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Programme.
• Cameroon – E.CAM’s proposal for responses measures to COVID-19 and impact on the Cameroonian economy
• Kenya - KEPSA business survey on the effects of COVID-19 and the Economic Management Framework developed by KEPSA are both available on the KEPSA downloads page.