Micro, Small & Medium Enterprise Development Agency (former SFD Social Fund for Development)

The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency was established by Prime Minister Decree No. 947 of 2017 and amended by Resolution No. 2370 of 2018. The agency has replaced the Social Fund for Development established in 1991, which is the product of 25 years of comprehensive multi-field development experience.

The agency concerned with project development. It coordinates and unifies the efforts of all concerned parties, NGOs and initiatives working in this field. The agency aims to set a national program for the development of projects and to create the necessary environment to encourage them. The agency works through a network of regional branches spread across the governorates, which is the executive arm of the agency with a total of 33 branches that include one-stop-shop units (OSS), in addition to partnership with about 600 NGOs concerned with developing micro-enterprises and 1800 bank branches spread across all governorates of the republic and a number of partners local development.