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DTI GTZ Private Sector Promotion (SMEDSEP) Program | Philippines

April - June 2008 Updates

 

National Level Initiatives

• A writeshop between GTZ and CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) to document the experiences and lessons learned from the harmonization of SMED Plans has been undertaken as a result of a joint assessment by the two development partners of the harmonization initiative.
• The upscaling of the SMEDSEP BIC (Business and Investment Climate) models nationwide, based on the demand of the regions, has been agreed in principle with the DTI RODG (Regional Operations Development Group) Undersecretary. Details of implementation still to be discussed.
• National SMED Council members’ appreciation of the Value Chain (VC) approach was bolstered via the conduct of a VC orientation session.
• The possibility of the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) becoming a potential replicator of the SMEDSEP BIC models surfaced in a recent discussion between PBSP and the Program.

 

Enhancing International Competitiveness

• Groundwork for Program supported M&E system development for the National Competitiveness Council (NCC) has started.
• The understanding of the members of the TCF and Management working groups about results based management (RBM) was heightened through a workshop conducted on the subject.

 

Region 6

• The Provincial Small and Medium Enterprise Development Councils (PSMEDC) of Antique, Capiz, Iloilo and Negros Occidental have charted their strategic directions and activities for the year in their respective strategic and operational plans crafted in provincial planning workshops.
• Official representatives from the private and public member entities of the six PSMEDC gained an appreciation of the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework designed to track down the accomplishments relative to the implementation of the harmonized provincial small and medium enterprise development (SMED) plans.
• Focal persons of public and private implementing agencies of harmonized SMED Plan enrolled programs, activities and projects (PAP) in majority of the provinces are now able to fill out the PAPIM forms after their attendance at the M&E coaching session in the region.
• Fourteen business development service (BDS) provider partners of SMEDSEP from the six provinces have sharpened their knowhow and skills in developing short courses for workplace personnel to strengthen the delivery of their training function to their SME clients. Also, these partners have prepared their consultancy businesses’ marketing strategy plans to guide them in the systematic marketing of their service offerings.
• Antique-based Saint Anthony’s College (SAC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SMEDSEP to formalize their collective effort of pioneering the offering of an alternative seminar type route to developing BDS provider-entrepreneurs from graduates of business related programs like economics, accountancy, marketing among others as well as practicing entrepreneurs. The seminar outline and modules, plus other implementation details, are now being finalized by SAC.
• Based on set criteria, eighteen local government units in the region are identified as candidates for this year’s Program effort to streamline the process of securing the Mayor’s Business Permit. The LGUs are Kalibo, Malay (Aklan), San Jose (Antique), Roxas (Capiz), Jordan (Guimaras), Dumangas, Oton, Estancia, Passi, Pototan (Iloilo), Cadiz, Silay, Bago, San Carlos, Kabankalan, Victorias, Talisay, Sagay (Negros Occidental).
• The region’s National Economic Research and Business Assistance Center (NERBAC) has formulated its vision, mission, strategies, objectives and activities for its next one year operation. It has likewise organized its Governing Board after identifying its institutional composition.
• Action plans based on Ivisan’s (Capiz) comparative and competitive advantages have been prepared with active participation of various stakeholders led by no less the honourable Ivisan Municipal Mayor. This happens as a consequence of conducting a local and regional economic development (LRED) sensitization and rapid economic appraisal (REA) in the area.
• The subsectors of piña and abaca loomweaving (in Aklan) and dried fish and coconut cooking oil (Capiz) have been analyzed and mapped using the VC approach.

 

Region 7

• Action plans for three identified interventions have been prepared by different stakeholders in LGU Lazi (Siquijor) after an LRED sensitization and a REA exercise.
• A region-based BDS provider partner co facilitated the conduct of LRED sensitization activity in Lazi while another BDS provider partner got sensitized to the LRED approach.
• Ten LGUs in the region have been identified this year for LRED replication. These are Antequera, Balilihan, Catigbian, Cortes, Maribojoc (Bohol), Argao, Liloan (Cebu), Mabinay (Negros Oriental), Larena and Siquijor (Siquijor).
• The collaboration with the GTZ Decentralization Program (DP), in partnership with DTI and Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), on BPLS streamlining in Cebu is firmed up.
• The use of the SPRING tool led to the identification of concrete steps on how to improve the NERBAC Cebu operation.
• Two action plans – one for Cebu’s wellness and medical tourism subsector and one for Bohol’s raffia and food subsectors – were developed in separate VC workshops.
• CVISCAFT, a BDS provider partner in Bohol, offers a maiden run of its industrial design course this school opening. Graduates of the course are expected to service a part of the growing market for product design and development market in the region and beyond.

 

Region 8

• 20 portfolio managers and champions in Leyte are now able to fill out the SMED Plan M&E framework’s PAPIM forms as a result of the coaching session held for them.
• LRED is launched in four new LGUs in Leyte and in six LGUs in the remaining provinces in the region. Six action plans have been prepared.
• 25 public and private LRED facilitators from Regions 7 and 8 gained the skill of using the COMPASS tool of local competitiveness through a workshop, which made possible also the updating of LRED action plans of three Leyte LGUs.
• DTI Leyte spearheaded the capacity development on LRED and REA of fifteen DTI provincial directors and focal persons in the whole of Visayas when they conducted in Nava, Biliran a short course on LRED.
• Strategic directions for tourism development in Palo, Leyte and Guiuan, Eastern Samar have been formulated.
• Five new LGUs – Isabel, Palo (Leyte), Naval (Biliran), Catbalogan and Calbiga (Samar) – will streamline their BPLS under the umbrella of LRED.
• A BDS Summer Academy, to be attended by 30 BDS providers, has been initiated and conceptualized by DTI Leyte.

 

Financial Services

The University of the Philippines Institute of Small Scale Industry (UP ISSI), SMEDSEP’s training provider partner, conducted two batches of C3 CREDIT and one batch SME finance for bank executives that gathered 39 participants from 19 banks in Luzon and the Visayas. The training runs generated some PHP 0.77 Million collection in training fees which covered about 67% of the cost.

 

prepared by

Lorenzo Templonuevo

KM Specialist

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