This chapter focuses on three specific factors that can be significant drivers of private sector development in the context of MED economies: the availability and accessibility of business development services, the ease of access to public procurement opportunities for SMEs, and measures to promote SME internationalisation, notably through exports.Overall, this interim assessment finds a large number of programmes and initiatives but very little evidence of their results. This could suggest 1) that these initiatives have effectively remained declarations of intent without clear strategies for SMEs to benefit; 2) that linking actions to results has been a weak exercise, with no evidence available on the extent to which SMEs have benefited from the many initiatives in these three policy areas; or 3) a combination of both. This interim assessment puts forward the following actions for MED economies:1. Consolidate and disseminate comprehensive information about SME and entrepreneurship support programmes provided by different institutions (government agencies, private sector providers, donors, etc.).2. Publish the results of these inventories and make them easily available for their beneficiaries through simple means such as brochures and through comprehensive mechanisms such as SME Observatories.3. Implement e-procurement systems and track the extent to which specific measures have actually benefited SMEs (e.g. splitting tenders into lots, easing procurement conditions, providing down payments, etc.). Procurement observatories could be a useful tool for assessing the effectiveness of these measures. They could be linked with SME Observatories.4. Better link export promotion strategies with concrete measures for SMEs to benefit from these strategies, and better track whether exports or trade in general (exports and imports) actually increase, and to what extent these results end up benefitting SMEs (e.g. access to cheaper and better-quality inputs or greater access to markets).