Economic Development | UNIDO-backed EDU network expands into Beletweyne

MOGADISHU, January 3rd 2021 — Somalia’s network of UNIDO-backed Enterprise Development Units (EDUs) is expanding with a new one being set up in the city of Belet Weyne in HirShabelle state.

Funded by the Government of Italy, in cooperation with Somalia’s federal Ministry of Commerce of Industry and the Somali Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Belet Weyne unit will provide entrepreneurship development training, business counseling and investment promotion support to local the businesses.

The aim is to help them accelerate their ideas into business ventures and upgrade the potential of existing businesses to expand by providing access to enhanced business skills, new technologies, markets, and UNIDO’s financing facilities.

This will be the fourth EDU in Somalia, following on from units established in Mogadishu, Baidoa and Kismayo.