UNDP Syria

The primary objective of the center is to improve business capacities of existing enterprises and allow well-trained, viable MSMEs to pursue their activities after graduation from the center, thus generating sustainable employment opportunities and business activity.

 

To do so, the center will thoroughly assist in the crucial start-up phase of the business development process with all relevant resources and services which will also serve to increase competitiveness and efficiency among qualifying existing MSMEs.

 

Interventions will target existing MSMEs in order to retool business practices, notably through training on business plan design and management, with added ICT emphasis for efficiency, markets outreach, the cross-fertilization of information related to market creation, innovation and the sharing of know-how, i.e. mutual learning among MSMEs operating within the center.

 

The program will seek to promote, support and complement large scale and replicable employment generation initiatives.

 

Expected short-term impacts include enhanced capacities of local entrepreneurs, notably through training. Long-run expectations comprise increased sustainability among existing MSMEs and reduced mortality rates among start-up businesses, resulting in sustainable employment generation within the region and poverty reduction.

 

This Center will act as facilitating hub for local Syrian entrepreneurs to meet their business development and technical needs.  By providing multiple services and resources, the Center will aim to build the capacities of MSMEs, notably in terms of employment generation.

 

It also aims to assist the newly graduated youths to upgrade their skills and be prepared for regional markets, in order to increase local employment opportunities. This will address the government’s objective and priority in development of the region through inviting more investments which needs trained and competent human resources locally to support their operations. This also ultimately will contribute to the government’s goal of poverty eradication in the region.

The main objective is to establish a “Vocational Training Unit” within the framework of the on-going project “Business Innovation and Development Center in Raqqa” in order to address the urgent needs for vocational training due to the lack of skilled labor in the region. It also aims at assisting the newly graduated youth in enhancing their skills and preparing them for the regional market, in order to increase their local employability. This initiative will take in hand the government’s priority to develop the region and   attract more investment that requires locally trained and competent human resources to support their operations. This also ultimately will contribute to the government’s goal of poverty eradication in the region.

This project ultimately aims at supporting the Syrian Government in the process of rehabilitating ancient Roman Wells in the north eastern region in one of the poorest regions of the country, the North Eastern region of Syria, for use as a sustainable water source by the local population, without incurring environmental damages.  This is expected to increase the access of the local population in the north eastern region to safe drinking water.  The project will support and contribute to local development and planning efforts on the governorate level in the North East as part of the "Support to the Implementation of the Tenth Five Year Plan" Project currently being implemented by UNDP Syria.