UN-Habitat wants regional SME proposals submitted...
[5 May 2006 - IPP Media] The UN-Habitat intends to promote creativity and innovativeness among prospective small and medium scale entrepreneurs’ (SMEs) projects in East Africa. The country’s UN-Habitat Programme Manager, Philemon Mutashubirwa, said this on Wednesday, adding that the region’s economic projects would be run through the organisastion’s Mashariki Innovations in Local Government Awards Programme (MILGAP) which fund it. ’’The award programme aims to recognize, reward and promote innovative projects, thereby improve the living status of poor men and women in the region,’’ said the UN official at the Media Awareness Workshop on MILGAP in Dar es Salaam. More