The USAID CATALYZE Engines of Growth (EoG) Activity supports the resilience, growth, and job creation of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Western Balkans by improving their access to and use of appropriate finance. EoG helps mobilize capital to sustain distressed, but viable, SMEs and jobs in the wake of COVID-19 in the near term and promotes improved SME growth financing in the long term. The EoG Activity engages market actors and other stakeholders in a co-design process to identify key opportunities and challenges to access to finance.
This learning brief on Private Equity and Venture Capital highlights lessons learned from EoG’s regional learning events held in Serbia and Albania in October 2022. The findings can be used by USAID and the private sector to explore ways to mobilize private capital collaboratively to achieve development objectives and grow the local market for financing.
