SME Support Service

Algeria faces the major challenge of having to reduce a high unemployment rate, especially among young people. The Algerian government has set the objective of advancing the process of reforming economic policies to allow sustainable and large-scale growth. Very Small Enterprises (VSEs) and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that represent 99 % of Algerian companies, mostly micro-enterprises with less than 10 employees, play a key role. They unsatisfactorily use their resources, are rarely able to conquer new national or international markets and are not very innovative. This leads to low competitiveness and a high mortality rate. The expected result of the project ‘Innovation and Development for SME’ (InnoDev) is the improvement of public and private support services for a green and large-scale increase in the competitiveness of Algerian SMEs. Increased competitiveness is the essential condition for job-creating growth, diversification of the Algerian private sector and a transformation towards an economic model less dependent on fossil fuels. InnoDev is funded by BMZ, implemented by GIZ with the Ministry of Industry (MI) of Algeria for a period of three years (10/2019-31 December 2022) and includes four fields of activity: green economy/resource efficiency, conquering new markets, management of innovation (green) and digitisation, reduction of company mortality. This consultation concerns the field of activity ‘green economy/resource efficiency’. For its implementation, the project seeks support by a consulting firm working in this special technical field.