Missions
The Ministry for the Promotion of SMEs is responsible for implementing and monitoring government policy on the promotion of SMEs. As such, and in liaison with the other ministerial departments concerned, the Ministry has the initiative and responsibility for the following actions:
- Encouraging private initiative by nationals.
- Participation in the definition of an incentive framework for the development of the private sector.
- Application of the provisions of the Investment Code.
- Promotion of the national private sector and foreign investors.
- Implementation, in collaboration with economic operators, of an Ivorian promotion body.
- Promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises and small and medium-sized industries (SMEs).
- Monitoring and coordination of SME development initiatives.
- Implementation and monitoring of policies aimed at improving the efficiency of SMEs.
- Setting up, on a private basis and in association with national and international economic and financial operators, an organisation to promote Ivorian SMEs.
- Development and implementation of an institutional and regulatory framework for the creation and financing of SMEs.
- Support for SMEs.