Appropriate technology is a small-scale, decentralized, and grassroots solution to the technology needs. It is, therefore, low-cost, flexible, easily accessible, convenient to control, and less complicated. As a demand driven modality of the programme, meeting the demand of various ranges of appropriate technology of micro-entrepreneurs from all MEDEP districts has always been a challenging issue. The actual challenge in technology transfer has been to identify the section between two factors which are

• The optimal utilization of locally available factors of production and services including technological capability already available and
  
  
• The introduction to existing production systems of a dynamic component as a means of stimulating learning processes and boosting productivity through incremental, or possibly even radical, innovations.