Donor:

Europe Aid project ‘Improving SME environment, Ukraine’ ECORYS Nederland BV together with the BIZPRO business-associations coalition programme

Role in the project:

Principal implementing body

Implementation period:

2003 - 2005

Project outputs and results: The Centre has been launched within the Business Development Services Partners Network (voucher programme). The Agency has developed its own interactive training products. The centre’s target audience were business entities, citizen’s self-organization bodies, unemployed people, youth, vulnerable groups, business leaders, civil servants and local government officials. The trainings themes included: ‘Regulatory impact analyses and regulatory act indicators’, ‘Marketing in tourism and creation of new tourism products and experiences’, ‘Business-planning’, ‘Restaurant Management’, ‘Informational activity of municipal management bodies’, ‘Public information campaigns and advocacy’, ‘Project management’ and others. The specialized training programmes attracted to participation of over 250 small and medium business representatives from Ivano-Frankivsk region. 

Besides the Agency has implemented the programme ‘Private-public dialog’, were it has conducted research of main business development obstacles amongst SMEs in Ivano-Frankivsk region and held 5 round table events on important business related issues.