27. 2021 年 5 月，非洲联盟发展署和生态银行集团启动了“十万家中小微企业”举措中的培训学院部分和融资部分，支持此类企业在非洲的发展。这项举措的总体目标是通过加强非洲这些企业的正规化来加快经济发展，并推动在非洲联盟 55个成员国创造体面的就业机会。其业务目标是每年向非洲超过 150 万家中小微企业提供支持，联络 80 多万家此类企业以及妇女和青年企业家，并利用非洲大陆自由贸易区为 50 多万家中小微企业进入非洲过渡市场提供便利。
27. In May 2021, the African Union Development Agency and Ecobank Group launched the training academy and financing components of the 100,000 micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises initiative to support the growth of such enterprises in Africa. The overarching goal of the initiative is to accelerate economic development through greater formalization of those enterprises in Africa and to promote the creation of decent jobs across the 55 African Union member States. The operational objective is to provide annual support to more than 1.5 million micro -, small and medium-sized enterprises across Africa, connect more than 800,000 such enterprises and women and young entrepreneurs, and use AfCFTA to facilitate access to transitional markets in Africa to more than 500,000 micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises.