PAOSMI 
PAOSMI envisions a thriving, sustainable and globally competitive African industrial ecosystem, driven by innovative small and medium Scale Industries (SMls}, as a leading contributor to the overall industrialization and sustainable socio-economic growth and development of the African continent and ' its people
To empower and promote Micro, Small, and Medium Industries (MSMls) with Startups to catalyze industrial development in African through conducive policy and regulatory frameworks and by leveraging on knowledge-driven Innovative Ecosystem of Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI), Digitization and Fintech, with requisite Industrial Skills Development Schemes, Engagement, and Resilience-building, while protecting and defending their core values and collective interests at all times as well as enhancing Global Competitiveness ranking
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PAOSMI is a Pan African organization dedicated to the development and promotion of the small and medium industries (SMIs) across Africa- Powered by Value Addition, Innovation and Sustainability of SMIs. As confederation, it represents the interests of voluntarily associated over fifty national and regional networks with thousands of individual Industrial Business across fifteen industrial sectors in the Continent with the aim to give SMIs a Voice to Fuel the Continent's Rise. PAOSMI supports the development of a competitive and sustainable SMIs by leveraging knowledge-driven Innovative Ecosystem of Science, Technology, Innovation (STI) leading to business and market transformation as we bring together the government, Industry and Academia with the community to collaboratively drive African Industrialization agenda through Small and Medium Industries (SMIs).
We believe in structured industrialization in the spirit of Pan Africanism. PAOSMI's objectives are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and African Union's (AU) Agenda 2063 and AFCFTA one Market Agenda. PAOSMI seeks to up-skill and strategize the African SMIs to be competitive with the Innovative tools, Policy Advocacy, Network linkages, Information Dissemination, Capacity Building, Trade Mission, exhibitions and conferences, as well as to see full domestication and implementation of the African Union SME Policies and Strategies for Small and Medium Industries (SMEs) in the content.
PAOSMI is registered in Rwanda as a Company limited by Guarantee and is certified by the Rwanda Development Board to operate legally and establish its headquarters in Rwanda with a registration number 122075267.
