PROFIT Work Plan

The overarching program goal of the Production, Finance, and Improved Technology Program (PROFIT) is to increase industry growth while assuring meaningful poverty reduction at the household level. To achieve this growth with poverty reduction goal, PROFIT will:

• Improve the competitiveness of industries in which large numbers of MSEs participate and might benefit.
• Foster the sustainability of competitiveness so as to enable firms and industries to respond to market demands both in the short and long run.
• Increase the breadth and depth of benefits at the industry, MSE, and household levels.

This draft workplan addresses steps involved in designing and implementing an intervention, including Industry Selection; Identifying Competitive Advantage; Commercially Upgrading the Industry to Realize Competitive Advantage; and Ensuring the Sustainability of Competitiveness.