Department Of Small Business Development Mandate

Department Of Small Business Development Mandate

The mandate of the Department
​The Department of Small Business Development is mandated to provide extensive support to small business and cooperatives through:
– Consolidated public agencies, including: Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA), Cooperatives Development Agency and Cooperatives Tribunal, and state-owned Companies

– Support enterprise coaching, including: Centres for Entrepreneurship and the Youth Enterprise Development Strategy
– Mentorship, including: National Business Uplifment Support
– Incubation, including: Incubation Support Programme
– Intensive support programmes, including: Support Programme for Industrial Innovation (SPII), Enterprise Development Programme, Gender and Women Empowerment Programmes and Cooperatives Incentive Scheme.
The Department undertakes to do this by taking into consideration the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act, and strategies to develop the empowerment of the youth, women and cooperatives. The department will continue collaborating with provincial entities to advance the Cabinet Decision of 2007 which called for 85% procurement of ten specified products and services in areas of focus that include the green economy, ICT, energy, manufacturing as well as manufacturing.
The department is also mandated to enhance coordination and transversal agreements, and to advance localisation, leveraging on public support in support of small business.