The NMFA/Excellence in Innovation (EI) Project aims to make small businesses more competitive, create well-paying jobs when unemployment is high, and move people from "sustainable livelihoods" to prosperity in Bosnia-and-Herzegovina (BiH), a country struggling with unemployment rates of over 40%. With support from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (NMFA), the project uses EDC's e-BIZ model to strengthen small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in two target sectors: agriculture and machine tools.