Closed · SFOP0005162 · CFDA 19.600 · Discretionary

Supporting Small and Medium Enterprises' Access to Finance in Tunisia

Federal grant opportunity posted by Assistance Coordination, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$1M-$1.2M
Award range
Closed
Status
July 19, 2018
Close date
1
Expected awards

The verdict

Supporting Small and Medium Enterprises' Access to Finance in Tunisia is a closed discretionary listing from Assistance Coordination that offered $1,000,000 -- $1,200,000 across 1 expected award. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 114 other opportunities from Assistance Coordination.

$1M-$1.2M
award range
Closed
application status
1
expected award
19.600
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Supporting Small and Medium Enterprises' Acce… is closed (last close July 19, 2018). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Assistance Coordination still indexes 114 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed July 19, 2018

Posted Jun 8 Closes Jul 19

Est. Total Funding

$1,200,000

Expected Awards

1

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

The micro, small and medium-scale enterprise finance sector in Tunisia has changed substantially— beginning with the introduction of a new microfinance law in 2011, which opened up the market to new entrants— and the Tunisian government has continued to build on this progress through the newly-passed Start-Up Act in 2018. Tunisia has a number of policies, mechanisms and institutions to support enterprise creation and growth, and a more developed policy framework for small, and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) than that of other North African and Levant economies, according to a recent SME policy assessment. Private equity and venture capital markets are underdeveloped. The Tunisian lending market accounts for less than ten percent of the financial sector, but is increasingly important for external financing of fixed asset investments of small- and medium- enterprises (SMEs). According to 2015 European Investment Bank report, banks limit SME business to only a subset of well-established SMEs which are able to bring in substantial collateral. Other SMEs, which have limited equity and funds, are mostly excluded. The banks' current liquidity situation encourages lending only to those clients perceived as less risky and which offer real assets as securities. Access to finance is one of the main impediments to the business environment in Tunisia, and this is particularly true for SMEs.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · SFOP0005162

Grants.gov marks Supporting Small and Medium Enterprises' Acce… with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity code maps to Other (O). This eligibility-code string dominates the Assistance Coordination book (69 peers, 60% of 115).

Code 25
Others (see official listing text)

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