The Aid for Trade project funded by the government of Finland, works on promoting inclusive growth in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan through promoting green value chains and increasing private sector competitiveness with a strong emphasis on building more resilient economic structures through economic and export diversification and adapting to the impact of COVID-19 and other external shocks.

The project focuses on supporting Central Asian countries in promoting inclusive and sustainable growth patterns in rural areas and within green productive sectors.

The project will work on the macro (policy), meso (institutions) and micro (SMEs producers) levels ensuring that interventions at the three levels are mutually supportive to ensure a focused impact level. The output levels will target the following:

• Supporting an enabling environment for job-rich sustainable growth.
• Supporting market opportunities for all through more efficient and competitive producers and processors.

Two cross-cutting themes will be gender equality and environmental sustainability.

The project will address the development challenge through sub-components:

• Enabling policies and regulations for inclusive and trade-oriented private sector development (macro level);
• Trade support institutions that provide efficient services to the private sector (meso level);
• Supporting market opportunities for all through more efficient and competitive producers and processors;
• More efficient and competitive producers and processors contribute to sustainable human development (micro level).