today, 7-September, USAID development of the business ecosystem award annual grants to eight organizations for business support, to improve existing and develop new business services for which there is high demand. The eight organizations: Chamber of Crafts - Skopje, Association for Rural Development LAG Agro Leader, Poppy seed-TRANS, Macedonian Association of Metal and Electrical Industry (MAMEI), Chambers of Commerce, Macedonian Association for lifts, Economic Chamber of North-East Macedonia and Macedonia Solar. The main objective of the project is to strengthen the Macedonian business ecosystem in a commercially sustainable business services that meet market needs and will help the country on the path to economic self-sufficiency.

In his speech before, Director of the Development Office of USAID, Edward Gonzalez, He noted the importance of business support organizations in creating a favorable business climate. "Companies do not operate in a vacuum. They should be linked, to communicate and cooperate with each other, but also with the wider community. For luck, here into play in business support organizations. If we look at the business ecosystem as an organism, your organizations are arteries that tie businesses and feed their growth. You are here to help companies to do what is difficult to do alone - to expand networks, to train workers, access to finance, to usovremenat knowledge and become more efficient ".