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Project Development Facility Coverage

China Project
Development Facility (CPDF)

Coverage: Sichuan Province, Southwest China.
Established in 2001. Provides enterprise level support, capacity building, and business enabling environment assistance.

Latin America & the Caribbean Facility

Coverage: Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru.
Established in 2003. Focuses on sectors with high potential for export, facilitates SME access to finance, supports linkage programs, and improves the business enabling environment.

Mekong Private Sector Development Facility
(Mekong region) (MPDF)

Coverage: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Vietnam.
Established in 1996. Provides company advisory assistance and develops business support services.

Private Enterprise
Partnership (PEP)

Coverage: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
Established in 2000. Promotes private sector investment and support for SME growth, and improves the business enabling environment.

Private Enterprise Partnership for Africa
(PEP-Africa, formerly APDF)

Coverage: Sub-Saharan Africa.
Established in 1986. Provides business advisory and enterprise support services.

Private Enterprise Partnership for the
Middle East and
North Africa (PEP-MENA)

Coverage: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Arab Republic of Egypt, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, West Bank and Gaza, Republic of Yemen.
Established in 2004 by combining the North Africa Enterprise Development facility and the Private Enterprise Partnership for the Middle East. The new facility focuses on improving the business enabling and regulatory environment, strengthening the financial sector, harnessing the growth of small and medium size enterprises and their support services such as business organizations and consulting firms, helping restructure and privatize state-owned enterprises, and developing viable private sector and public-private partnership projects, especially in infrastructure.

Pacific Enterprise Development Facility (PEDF)

Coverage: Pacific Islands, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste.
Established in 1990. The primary activity of PEDF is to facilitate and support best practice in the design and delivery of business support services to the private sector in the Pacific region with a particular focus on small to medium enterprises. PEDF works with institutions, organizations and associations on capacity building and strengthening in a wide range of areas across industry sectors and financial markets.

Program for Eastern Indonesia SME
Assistance (PENSA)

Coverage: Eastern Indonesia: Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Bali, East Nusa Tenggara.
Established in 2003. It improves access to finance, the business enabling environment, develop sustainable supply chain and provide linkages in the agribusiness, oil, gas and mining, handicraft industries.

SouthAsia Enterprise Development Facility (SEDF)

Coverage: Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Northeastern India.
Established in 2002. Improves access to finance, access to business development services, and the business enabling environment.

Southeast Europe
Enterprise Development (SEED)

Coverage: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYR Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro.
Established in 2000. Provides investment and capacity-building services and improves the business-enabling environment.