In January – March 2016 quarter, national stakeholder workshops were held in Burkina Faso, Mauritius and South Africa. The workshops aimed to provide an avenue for the common understanding of the overall project objectives, roles and responsibilities as well as the expectations and required outputs of the country projects among the national stakeholders, grantees, partners and final beneficiaries (MSMEs). The grantees held various activities including training, developing tools, constructing demonstration equipment as well as awareness rising in the pilot countries.