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FAST – Supporting the structuring of women’s entrepreneurship in Tunisia
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Status
Closed
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Financing amount (Euro)
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5.5m
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Country and region
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Tunisia, Africa
FAST contributed to sustainably strengthening the structure of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Tunisia, particularly women’s entrepreneurship. The objective was to meet the financial needs and support project initiators and SMEs.
FAST was implemented by the Tunisian Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations with technical assistance from Expertise France. It aimed to assist entrepreneurship support structures, in line with the needs of the sector, in order to contribute to combating youth unemployment and boost entrepreneurship, especially by women.
This project followed on from the ENLIEN project which supported private and public structures in Tunisia’s entrepreneurial ecosystem between 2018 and 2022.
Find out more about the ENLIEN project
Boosting the entrepreneurship ecosystem
The FAST project aimed to help strengthen and structure the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Tunisia by financing programmes with three components.
Component 1: Support acceleration programmes that provide financial leverage
The FAST project financed the technical assistance proposed by accelerators in order to encourage them to offer equity financing, loans or any other product to project initiators.
Component 2: Support incubation structures for women in the regions
These support structures were all led by women in the regions, outside Greater Tunis.
Component 3: Partnerships with large companies
FAST supported programmes to build more links between start-ups/MSMEs and mid-cap companies and large companies to accelerate the development of the activity of these microenterprises/start-ups.
Key figures
- 17 initiatives were supported (10 of which were dedicated specifically to domestic regions)
- 788 projects were supported during the project, 82% of which were led by women.
- 50% of the projects supported had a social and/or environmental impact
- 1834 jobs were created thanks to this project
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Ongoing
2025 - 2029
Funders : European Union
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