Kazakhstan Small Business Development (KSBD)

Through this program, KSBD worked to: a) Increase the Government of Kazakhstans knowledge of international best practices and lessons learned in implementing SME support programs, b) Transfer capacity to the Government of Kazakhstan and indigenous institutions, both public and private sector, to manage and evaluate entrepreneurship development programs, and c) Promote a sound development of a network of small business service providers to foster growth of SMEs.

The Kazakhstan Small Business Development Project operated under USAID/CARs Strategic Objective for an improved environment for the growth of small and medium enterprises and in particular in the promotion of SMEs and entrepreneurs and their acquiring increased opportunity to business information, knowledge and skills.