Impact- Increasing the SME sector's share in the economy will help contribute to broad based GDP growth. Supporting SME development by increasing access to finance as a result of the positive demonstration effect from ADB''s loan can help raise total employment and secondly lead to inclusive economic growth.
Outcome- ADB''s loan and CDTA is expected to help KICB establish a profitable and sustainable SME program and broaden access to finance for previously unbanked SMEs.
Outputs- This loan will provide the bank with additional funds for on-lending to SMEs. Outputs include KICB having access to longer-term funds for SME on-lending, which will increase its lending activities to this sector. Additional output of this project will be product development in KICB, supported by technical assistance from ADB and reporting of sex-disaggregated data.
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