Outcome 1: Businesses strategically invest to increase  their  productivity  and improve environmental efficiency. 

Outcome 2: Strong and responsive business associations engage with consultancies and businesses to enhance modernization. 

Risultati principali attesi:  

• Consultancies have the capacities and tools to diagnose businesses and offer tailored and comprehensive services and solutions.  
• Businesses have access to resources for business modernisation. 
• Business associations proactively support consultancies and businesses to enhance the uptake of consultancy services.  
• Businesses associations proactively engage with consultancies and businesses to enhance the uptake of financial products for modernization. 

Risultati fasi precedenti:   Decent employment remains a significant challenge and low productivity  is one of the key factors  limiting  the creation of decent  jobs.  Low  productivity  of  businesses  is  primarily  a result  of  obsolete  technology  and  weak management practices,  further  hampered  by  shrinking  workforce. Businesses lack capabilities to properly identify and prioritize their bottlenecks (business diagnostics), which often results with  ineffective  investments.  Ultimately  the  findings  of  the pilot  intervention  on  business  diagnostics  show  that MP should  focus  on  educating  the  market,  building  local consultancies’ capacity, ensuring competitive pricing, and establishing  robust  follow-up mechanisms.  With  these elements  in  place,  business  diagnostics  could become  a powerful  tool  for  driving  sustainable  growth  and transformation of the businesses in North Macedonia. 

SDC: Increasing Market Employability, Education for Employment, Groundwater Management Use and Protection Programme, Parliament Support Programme.  

SECO: SIPPO, SwissEP, Light Manufacturing 

Other: USAID, EU Delegation, SIDA, EBRD, The World Bank Group, Fund for Innovation and Technological Development, Development Bank of North Macedonia;