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A growing network of expertise available to WILMA stands ready to help SEICs to form and grow by providing the following kinds of assistance:
- Help identify underutilized resources that can be used to form SEICs; such resources include personnel (both leaders and residents with many capacities), land, materials, and the capital and know-how of existing enterprises
- Help potential founders of SEICs to organize these resources into SEICs; connect them with sources of knowledge and technical experience including the management of micro PE; help arrange micro-credit loans for individuals with entrepreneurial drive to start local enterprises that potentially qualify for micro PE investment
- Help SEIC founders to attract additional resources for high-impact development — a "catalyst," if needed — especially in the field of grants and low-cost patient loans for education in entrepreneurship
- Help to connect these founders with larger-scale regional or national programs for rural development, so as to ensure results on the ground in underserved areas.
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