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MSME Growth

Strengthening MSMEs. Expanding opportunity.

Practical programs that help entrepreneurs start, strengthen and grow businesses—turning learning into action in the real economy.

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Practical by design. Built for application.

Entrepreneurs working together during a B-Strong workshop
A Lao handicraft entrepreneur presenting her work
A young entrepreneur working at her sewing machine
01Start

Turn skills and ideas into a viable livelihood.

02Strengthen

Build the systems and capability behind the business.

03Adapt

Respond to changing customers, markets and conditions.

04Grow

Choose priorities and move forward with confidence.

Across business realities

Different starting points. One practical approach.

A young person building a first livelihood faces different challenges from an established business preparing to grow. A craft entrepreneur, a green innovator and an MSME rebuilding after disruption each face a different business reality.

Katalyst designs programs around those realities—combining practical business tools, highly participatory learning and support that helps people turn ideas into action.

Our MSME work

Different needs. Practical responses.

Stronger entrepreneurs, stronger enterprises and more opportunities for people to build sustainable livelihoods.

How we work

Learning that moves into the business.

The format changes with the audience and context. The principle does not: every program is designed to help people use what they learn.

  1. 01
    Work on the real business

    The participant’s business, customers, decisions and opportunities become the case study.

  2. 02
    Learn by doing

    Practical tools are used, questioned and applied—not simply introduced in a presentation.

  3. 03
    Build local capability

    Programs strengthen entrepreneurs, trainers, coaches and the wider business-support ecosystem.

  4. 04
    Continue beyond the workshop

    Action planning, mentoring and coaching help turn new thinking into sustained business change.

MSME owners exchanging ideas during a Katalyst program
Designed with partners. Grounded in business reality.

Partnership in practice

Programs built around people, sectors and outcomes.

Katalyst works with development partners, government institutions, business associations and private-sector partners to create practical MSME programs that respond to a specific opportunity or challenge.

That may mean developing a new program, adapting an existing model, building local trainer capability or combining workshops with mentoring and coaching over time.

Build what comes next

Building stronger MSMEs together.

Talk to Katalyst about a practical program for the entrepreneurs, businesses or sectors you want to support.

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