TECHNOSERVE SMALL ENTERPRISE ASSISTANCE GRANT

(TI), to enable it to increase substantially the scale of its program by increasing the number of its volunteer field personnel (from 6 to 18) and by recruiting and training local personnel as field representatives. In support of these activities, one additional full-time senior project advisor will be assigned to each participating country, 10 additional full-time interim project managers will be assigned as needed to field projects, and one full-time project coordinator will be added to the home office staff. Six senior project advisor counterparts will be trained. In addition, 15 projects, which contribute to the growth and self-sufficiency of viable, locally beneficial enterprises in the industrial and agricultural sectors, will be developed in Honduras, Guatemala, the Caribbean, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, and other African and Latin American countries. Types of project assistance include that for mixed food crop farming; rice processing mills fresh fish processing and marketing; poultry production; animal feed mills; and small electrical machinery and repair. It is anticipated that TI"s assistance cost per project will be reduced from $27,000 to $16,500 and total assistance cost per job created reduced from $520 to $370. This project will benefit local villagers to the extent that local enterprises become viable; increase the production of needed commodities; and increase employment, income, and tax revenues.