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Business Development Services

The Business Development Services (BDS) division, as the name states, is the main division within the corporation tasked with the responsibility for the evelopment and promotion of the Small and Medium Enterprise sector hrough provision of a range of products, initiatives and activities.

A full complement of BDS involves training, credit/finance and extension services.

The BDS division is providing and is working towards providing a wide range of services/products from credit/access to credit, market/information research, collation and information dissemination, newsletters, publicity or promotion of SBDC and its

programmes and activities.

Whilst training is a BDS service, the SIYB training is mostly oordinated by the SIYB programme division and delivered through its affiliated network partner organisations, although the BDS division does undertake/conduct SIYB training from time to time where other network partners are unable to do so.

Through the BDS division, the Corporation provides support, input and participation at various committees like WTO steering committee, PACP/EU partnership agreement, SME policy review committee, ADB micro-finance steering committee, WTTC steering

committee and CIMC's sectoral committees.

Some of the new initiatives/programmes that are in the pipeline or coming on stream in the next 12 months are:

In due course the Corporation will create its own website for the use of and by the organisation and its clientele as part and parcel of its informatisation process and in keeping with the global trend in e-business/e-trade;
The credit scheme is being reviewed and the form it is to operate as is being looked at and as soon as the necessary processes and mechanics are in place, this will be implemented;
The BDS division is currently working with the Chief Technical Advisor – SIYB Programme and the National Women's Entrepreneurs Association to have them properly organised and housed within SBDC in order to further assist them in developing their programmes and initiatives targeting the women entrepreneurs;
In conjunction with the SIYB Programme Phase 3, we are embarking on commencing and completing the Provincial Enterprise Development Plan (PEDP) in the four provinces piloted under Phase 2; and
With the assistance of the CTA-SIYB and International Labour Organisation Sub-Regional Office in Manila, are exploring and furthering the necessary arrangements for the attachment of a Commodity Broker within SBDC.