Business Skills for South Africa

Seda business advisers

BSSA has been contracted by the Small Enterprise Development Agency (Seda) to train the business advisers employed at the various Seda branches nationally. Modules from both the PROCESS and ProNet programmes have been selected and nearly all interventions have been completed.

The dti network facilitators

The Black Business Supplier Development Programme (BBSDP) of the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) was introduced in 2002 to address the constraints that many black-owned small enterprises faced in participating in the mainstream economy. The BBSDP provides a matching grant to enterprises to assist them in improving their competitiveness through for example upgrading managerial capabilities, market development and quality improvement projects. Independent so-called "network facilitators" assist small enterprises to access the BBSDP matching grants.

BSSA has been contracted to improve the competencies of some of the network facilitators to assist more small entrepreneurs to benefit from the BBSDP programme.