EU TIGARA: EU Support to Trade, Industry, Growth and Rapid Market Access

About this project

Contract related to: EU TIGARA: EU Support to Trade, Industry, Growth and Rapid Market Access - The title of this EU flagship programme is TIGARA, which means ¿Trade¿ in Arabic. The EU intervention will focus on supporting the Government of Egypt¿s (GoE) efforts to strengthen the capacities of the private sector to comply with trade and domestic market regulations. This programme will strengthen and support Egyptian institutions that provide backing to the private sector and modernise the National Quality Infrastructure (NQI) and trade development efforts in line with international standards and commitments in order to increase competitiveness and market transparency. This will be carried out in the framework of the newly adopted Programme for Country Partnership (PCP) for Egypt. The overall objective is to contribute to the increased competitiveness and efficiency of the Egyptian private sector, which will lead to higher sustained economic growth and decent job creation. The specific objectives are: SO1: Improved capacity and efficiency of the Egyptian ecosystem for enterprise development and trade. SO2: Increased participation of Egyptian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in selected industry value chains.The intervention is conceived in 2 components: Component 1 will focus on institutional support for Government organisations that promote enterprise development; Component 2 will demonstrate the benefit of a conducive NQI supported by private investment and improvement i…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 1No Poverty
• 5Gender Equality
• 8Decent Work and Economic Growth
• 12Responsible Consumption and Production
• 17Partnerships for the Goals

Published by

European Commission - Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations · Other public sector

Countries

Egypt

Sectors

Industrial developmentTrade facilitationPublic sector policy and administrative management

Focus

Gender equality · Also contributesEnvironment · Also contributesGood governance · Main focusClimate mitigation · Also contributesClimate adaptation · Also contributes

Places

EG - Action location

Funded by

European Commission

Implemented by

UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION*ORGANISATION DES NATIONS UNIES POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT INDUSTRIEL

Accountable

United Nations Industrial Development Organisation

Passes funds through

Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations

Published by European Commission - Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 30 Jan 2025 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XI-IATI-EC_NEAR-2023-PC-25206.

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