The Challenges

The Challenges Group is a family of companies committed to creating a more prosperous world. We specialise in working directly with small and medium enterprises. We believe SMEs are the growth engine of an economy, and that being resilient is vital in order to grow sustainably. Challenges has been operating globally for almost 20 years, from South America to Far East Asia. Since 1999, we’ve operated in 55 countries, supporting more than 3000 enterprises and tens of thousands of people. In the past four years alone, we’ve partnered with more than 600 companies in Sub-Saharan Africa, where we have established offices and full-time teams in Ghana, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia. We offer our clients a range of operational, implementation and advisory services. These include: business development and acceleration, market assessment, consultancy, commercial linkages, impact evaluation, investment readiness, recruitment, joint ventures, and project management. Our lean approach means we can tailor a cost-effective and flexible solution to any business, while our expertise, networks and in-depth analytics bring further benefits. As well as our pioneering CMI training programme, we also support long-term commercial developments in both rural and urban rural communities, forging strategic linkages and growing small and medium enterprises. And thanks to our extensive network of SMEs and expertise, we are in a prime position to support larger companies within urban centres, such as manufacturers, banks and insurers, to design new products focused upon the needs of SMEs. The Challenges Group has a long list of current clients and an even longer list of successes. We’ve worked with governments, businesses, NGOs and other agencies, both in the public and private sector. We have an unrivalled network of consultants, experts and partners. In short, we know what we’re doing, we know it works, and we’ve been doing it a long time.