ACP-EU Joint Institutions
The mission assigned to the CDE under the Cotonou Agreement is to contribute to poverty reduction by fostering wealth creation by lending support to the various types of operator that make up the private sector in the ACP countries; in this role it draws extensively on the capabilities of enterprises in EU countries.
The Centre makes its facilities available to operators in the ACP private sector on the basis of:
multiannual sectoral and regional programmes,
integrated assistance to individual enterprises outside those programmes, applying rigorous selection criteria, helping to set up contacts between entrepreneurs in ACP and EU countries in the same sectors, trades or businesses.
It lends support, in a variety of forms, to:
the creation and development of ACP enterprises,
intermediary institutions such as trade and/or sector organizations, combining its operations with those of PRO€INVEST and other EU and bilateral programmes,
firms of consultants.
It grants SMEs subsidies to meet part of the costs of support and advisory ser-vices (diagnostic analyses of businesses, feasibility studies etc.) before, during and after an investment. It does not finance the investment itself but may help enterprises to find suitable sources of funding and set up financial engineering.
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