SMIDA Overview

The Micro, Small and Medium Industrial Development Agency (SMIDA) is a parastatal Industrial Development Agency established by the Act No. 2 of 2018. The Agency operates under the Ministry of Trade and Industries.

The Agency is mandated to advice, develop, coordinate, promote and offer every form of support to micro, small and medium industries in Zanzibar through facilitation from early stage of formalization to marketing of the product and all the way to graduation to large industry category.

Also it operate or facilitate affordable credit schemes and other financial and non-financial services through Small and Medium Industrial Development Fund (SMIDF).