Grant between USAID and Booker T. Washington Foundation to stimulate growth of enterprise in Cameroon

Washington Foundation (BTWF) to help Cameroon"s University Center for Business Administration (UCBA) at Douala and the Center for Support to Small and Medium Enterprises (CAPME) to develop a research and training division in the area of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME"s). Planned outputs are: (1) an action research program that identifies the job-creation opportunities and potential of SME"s and generates suitable methodologies and strategies for exploiting these opportunities; (2) a policy research program that identifies and analyzes legal, structural, and environmental constraints on SME development and provides recommendations to alleviate them; (3) a management consulting service to upgrade CAPME"s professional staff; (4) a training program tailored to the needs of CAPME trainers; (5) upgraded UCBA academic programs in the fields of SME"s, rural development, and business management; and (6) a public/private sector advisory committee to assist in the development and operation of the SME division.