BAS Programme

The Central Asia BAS Programme assists enterprises in Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan through the provision of practical business advice.

Central Asia BAS was initiated in 2001 with funds from the Japan Europe Cooperation Fund (JECF). Now funded by the JECF and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (seco) and operated by the EBRD's TAM/BAS Programme Team, the Central Asia BAS Programme aims to assist locally-owned, private small and medium enterprises in Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan to achieve their development and growth objectives. The programme achieves this by helping SMEs hire business consultants for advisory projects that enable the enterprises to enter new markets, improve internal operations and products, reduce operating costs, gain access to financing and plan future business operations. Small management teams in Almaty, Bishkek and Tashkent develop and initiate between 5 and 10 new projects per month, and regional offices in 4 cities in Kazakhstan and 3 cities in Uzbekistan allow the Programme to work directly with the enterprises that need its support the most.


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