DAVAO CITY, Mar. 19 – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
in Davao Region was able to establish 12 Shared Service Facility (SSF) projects
in 2014.
The SSF project of DTI is aimed at improving the quality and
productivity of entrepreneurs by addressing the gaps and bottlenecks in the
value chain of priority industry clusters through the provision of processing
machines/equipment/tools for the common use of the identified beneficiaries.
The said projects, which totalled P6.303 million, assisted 276
micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), and generated 1,416 jobs.
Each project costs between P165,000 up to P965,000. Most of
these projects benefitted by MSMEs in handicrafts, coco coir, organic
fertilizer, meat, banana, coffee, organic rice, abaca, and bamboo crafts.
DTI-Davao Region reported that since it started the SSF project
in 2013, the agency has already established a total of 46 SSFs, assisted 1,206
MSMEs, and generated 3,261 job opportunities.
DTI-Davao Region Officer-in-Charge Maria Belenda Q. Ambi said
that through this particular intervention, MSMEs are given the opportunity to
improve their productivity.
“This is DTI’s initiative towards helping those MSMEs who have
no access to necessary facilities and equipment because they don’t have the
capacity to buy their own,” she said.
For this year, DTI is set to establish 19 SSFs.
Apart from SSF, DTI has been active in implementing various
interventions that are geared toward the development of local entrepreneurs. One
of these is the conduct of SME Roving Academy (SMERA) trainings on product
development, capacity-building, among others.
In 2014, DTI-Davao Region was able to conduct 326 SMERA
trainings which benefitted 10,629 MSMEs, potential entrepreneurs, overseas
Filipino workers (OFWs), Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP)
beneficiaries, farmers/beneficiaries in Typhoon Pablo-affected areas, senior
citizens, and persons with disability (PWDs). DTI11/JenMendoza
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