{"id":3712,"date":"2019-07-11T07:29:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T07:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3712"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","slug":"sustainable-business-practices-unlock-smes-competitive-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/11\/sustainable-business-practices-unlock-smes-competitive-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Business Practices Unlock SMEs Competitive Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By Edward Mungai<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 17 Sustainable\nDevelopment Goals (SDGs), the United Nations General Assembly ratified in\nSeptember 2015, were presented as a universal call to action to eradicate\npoverty, achieve food security, protect the planet, achieve clean water and\nsanitation while embracing green energy as well as ensure that all people enjoy\npeace and prosperity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The private sector has\nembraced the 17 goals with daily update of who is adopting SDGs and which ones.\nThis has been largely been the case for large corporates and therefore it begs\nthe question \u2014 is there room for sustainability in small and medium-sized\nenterprises (SMEs)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The answer is simple\nyet complex depending on the side of the coin you are looking at. SMEs are the\nbackbone of the African economy. The overwhelming majority of businesses in\nAfrica can be classified as SMEs and are the drivers of the economies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They play a crucial\nrole in addressing poverty, inequality and job creation in rural and urban\nareas across Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are also an\nimportant source of employment, particularly for women, low skill workers and\nthe youth\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/lifestyle\/pfinance\/practices-unlock-SMEs-competitive-edge\/4258410-5191038-tvnbhlz\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Edward Mungai The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the United Nations General Assembly ratified in September 2015, were presented as a universal call to action to eradicate poverty, achieve&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}