SA SMME CONFERENCE

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SA SMME CONFERENCE 26 October 2006
PROMOTING THE INTEGRATED SMALL BUSINESS
DEVELOPMENT APPROACH
Mandisa Manjezi Chief Director, Enterprise
Development MManjezi_at_thedti.gov.za
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

• Giving context to the integration measures
• Benefits analysis current efforts
• Critical gaps
• Evaluation of service delivery mechanisms
• New integrative approaches
• Expanding support programmes
• Coordinating support and improving monitoring
  measures

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INTEGRATION CONTEXT

• PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR LINKAGES
• Combining resources
• Mixing approaches
• Joining up with partners
• Consolidation through amalgamation
• Incorporation
• Additional value gain
• Cross cutting need for collective planning,
  evaluation and review

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BENEFITS FROM CURRENT EFFORTS

• Government Policy and Strategy Framework
• Creating an enabling environment
• Expanding training and education for small
  business
• Localizing support
• Co-funding business infrastructure facilities
• Expanding market opportunities for small
  enterprises
• Strengthening SMME access to finance
• Small Business Sector growth
• From 800 000 small enterprises to current figures
  above 2 million
• 40 000 in the formal sector
• 207 overall increase for cooperatives
  registration

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CRITICAL GAPS

• Role clarification National Strategy for Small
  Enterprise development
• National Government
• Provincial Government
• Local Government
• Collective research agenda
• Government
• Private sector
• Academia
• Service standards improvement
• Business development services
• Access to finance primarily for loans up to R250K
• Sector focused interventions
• Skills and technology capacities
• Improving visibility of our initiatives
• Guidelines for integration
• Provisions made by the Small Business Act, 1996,
  2003, 2004

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EVALUATION OF SERVICE DELIVERY

• Broadening of public sector support to all levels
  of government and a range of government
  departments
• Sector differentiation in the design and
  implementation of focused support programmes
• Expansion of privately supplied business
  development services
• Spread of quality services to all regions across
  the country both urban and rural
• Reasonable coordination of these efforts within
  limited financial and implementation capacities
• Access to information, advice and support
  networks
• Access to critical services
• Skills and technology
• Finance and markets
• Appropriate infrastructure
• Cluster models at institution and enterprise level

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NEW INTEGRATION APPROACHES

• INSTITUTION LEVEL
• SEDA including seda SEDA-TECHNOLOGY
• SAMAF
• KHULA
• Interdepartmental initiatives
• OTHER SIGNIFICANT INITIATIVES LINKED TO DOA
  Programmes and private sector programmes
• ENTERPRISE LEVEL
• Cooperatives
• Project based partnerships
• Community driven initiatives

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EXPANDING SUPPORT PROGRAMMES

• Sector focused research
• Sector focused project initiatives
• Entrepreneurship promotion
• Business networks facilitating linkages between
  business
• BEE Benefit programmes focused on enterprise
  development
• Procurement support linked with enterprise
  development
• Skills development linked to enterprise
  opportunities
• Synergy first programme support criteria
• Integrated Small Enterprise development
  strategy

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COORDINATING SUPPORT AND MONITORING MEASURES

• Private sector forums
• Interdepartmental structures
• National Small Business Advisory Body
• Small Business annual review
• Annual Small Business Summit

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THANK YOU