King Khalid Foundation (KKF)

A foundation that provides financial support to innovative nonprofit projects and organisations that support skills development, employment and job creation, and which benefit the wider community. Its social investment work has focused on improving income opportunities among vulnerable segments of society, and accelerating the rise of social enterprises. 

Mohammed Bin Rashid Establishment for Young Business Leaders

A governmental organisation aimed at fostering the entrepreneurial spirit in the city of Dubai by creating a business enabling environment to facilitate the development of new businesses and stimulate entrepreneurial activities among SMEs. This support is done primarily through promoting entrepreneurship and providing a wide package of services that include consultation and guidance, licensing exemptions, financing, business relations development and incubation services.

AlKuraimi Islamic Bank

A bank that contributes effectively to economic and social development and in raising the per capita income, by providing a variety of banking services in line with Islamic Sharia principals and make it accessible for everyone in Yemen. It aims to develop and deliver diverse financial services including financing of productive micro, small and medium enterprises whilst always applying the principles of Islamic banking. 

Global Community

It provides loan guaranty facility to support lending to the enterprise sector with a strong focus on SMEs sector. The facility can also be extended to guarantee bank loans to micro-finance institutions. It offers programs that provide technical assistance and training programs on a demand-driven basis to officers and managers from partner banks.

Agricultural Cooperative Bank

Aims to improve the living standards in farmers and rural women. It supports agricultural development and a cornerstone of the government’s comprehensive assistance package to farmers.  A technical assistance grant from IFAD supports training for rural women in processing milk by-products for sale in large cities in the project area.

Agha Khan Development Network

A network that offers support to SMEs in need of acceleration. It focuses on women and youth in rural towns and peri-urban settings, where economic opportunities often remain insufficient. It also targets entrepreneurs with low-income earnings, refugees and migrants, the unemployed and those who have not completed primary or secondary education.