Kafalah Director-General Homam Hashem
Director-General Homam Hashem of the Saudi SME guarantee program Kafalah has announced that in 2020 the agency has provided $46.9M in loans to 61 tourism projects which created 2,687 jobs.
Altogether in 2020 Kafalah provided more than $906M in financial support to small and medium enterprises, and the number of beneficiaries increased by 197% from 2019 during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
Kafalah is a joint effort between the Saudi Ministry of Finance, the Saudi Industrial Development Fund and Saudi banks.
In Islamic law, "kafalah" is the guarantee for a loan which must be repaid in due course.