A total of three thousand cluster-based Micro, Small Scale Enterprises, MSMEs from the three senatorial districts in the state are being trained and funded across the three senatorial district in the state, through the support of the European Union, EU.

The MSMEs’ support programme being implemented by the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, will empower each of the benefitting businesses with one hundred thousand naira grant.

The grant being disbursed by the EU-UNDP with supervision by the Anambra State Small Business Agency, ASBA, is intended to help grow the businesses and mitigate the adverse effects of the hardship facing small scale businesses in the country

Leading the monitoring and evaluation team of UNDP to tour different venues of training and fund disbursement in the state, Mrs. Grace Arinze said they are in the state to obtain first-hand data on the beneficiaries to ensure that the fund is received by the right target.

 

She challenged the beneficiaries to pay key attention to the training so as to enable them grow and place their businesses on the global map.

In his remarks, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, ASBA, Sir Clem Chukwuka, revealed that Anambra State became beneficiaries of the programme because of Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s dynamism in delivering good governance to the people of the state and his target to grow the economy of the state.

 

Sir Clem explained that the beneficiaries which are businesses that are mostly in need of help were selected from the three senatorial districts in the state.

According to him, the choice of cluster-based businesses was to save them from imminent collapse on account of the current hardship in the country.

 

Sir Clem said that to achieve efficiency and effectiveness in the training, the state government grouped the training of the benefitting businesses into two groups.

For the Project Manager of the training Mr. Fortune Tamunokuro, the trainees are being trained on Digital Literacy Skills, Financial Performance, Business and Product Development.

 

Mr Tamunokuro expressed satisfaction with the enthusiasm and turn up of beneficiaries at each of the senatorial districts and appreciated the state government, EU and UNDP for the laudable initiative.

Responding, some of the beneficiaries, a Fashion Designer Ngozi Ume, Leo Imoka, a Rice Farmer, and Chukwudi Obiano, a Poultry Farmer said they have received the funding and training free of cost and expressed appreciation to the Soludo-led administration, EU and UNDP for their thoughtfulness in uplifting MSMEs in the state.

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