The objective of this impact report is to gain consolidated impact insights and lessons learned from the International Climate Initiative (IKI) financed SEED project: Financing and capacity building for micro and small climate-smart enterprises: Filling the gap of the missing middle.

The 5-year global SEED project was operating in Ghana, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Thailand, and Uganda. The project combined knowledge and resource building for socially inclusive and climate-friendly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with the promotion of enabling institutional frameworks, and extends this offering with a combination of green recovery-related topics.

The impact report aims to share insights that can serve as a blueprint for project stakeholders and IKI project implementers who are working to support climate-smart SMEs while creating an enabling ecosystem working with policymakers, financiers and intermediaries to support a low-carbon transformation across the target countries.