Private Sector Development

By reducing barriers to competition, strengthening the legal framework surrounding dispute resolution, and promoting transparent business practices, we create business environments that spur economic growth. We specialize in strengthening institutions, so the developing countries where we work can further improve their policies, laws, and regulations.

The potential of trade presents a giant step towards ending poverty in the world’s poorest countries. The building of a strong private sector, operating within a sound regulatory environment and institutional framework, provides developing countries with the basis for sustainable economic growth and poverty alleviation.

Making the markets work for the poor means encouraging competitiveness and business growth, creating employment, enhancing opportunities for small-scale enterprise development through the provision of improved support services and facilitating links with the larger manufacturing and service sectors. It also means addressing the rights of people at work and opening up channels of representation for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to influence policy decisions.

Pazisma assists governments to build national capacity in cost effective and sustainable business development services such as organisational management and capacity building, access to microfinance, promotion and public awareness, information on new technologies and export and domestic market access. We advise on regulations that provide a conducive business environment. We address health and safety issues and assist with the development of networks to pool resources and widen market opportunities. Pazisma also actively addresses critical issues and barriers that youths and many women entrepreneurs face.

Pazisma manages projects and programs aimed at supporting economic growth and creating new jobs in sectors including agriculture, tourism and manufacturing. Integrating high quality services in agricultural production, post harvest technology, fruit and vegetable marketing and livestock husbandry contributes to a secure food supply, increased agricultural output and value added on a sustainable and cost effective basis. The identification and promotion of business opportunities in community tourism and local manufacturing helps attract foreign investment, builds links and raises the level of local involvement and participation in economic development. A major focus of these initiatives is capacity building and developing a free market economy with an emphasis on decentralisation.