$2 Million for Training Salvadoran SMEs

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will give the funds to the Suppliers Development Program (PDP), which trains SMEs to make them more efficient.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

The program, administered by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is called “Programa de Desarrollo para Proveedores” in Spanish. It intends to prepare Small and Medium companies to work with large enterprises by being more competitive.

IDB will contribute $1.6 million to the project and UNDP will provide $600 thousand.

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