Goal: To provide business support services to small and medium enterprises in The Gambia in order to enhance their income generation capacities with a view to achieving sustainable growth, employment creation and poverty alleviation.
Our BDS Approaches: We provide two broad categories of services for SME’s as highlighted below:
- Operational Services are those needed for the day-to-day operations, such as information and communications, management of accounts and tax records, and compliance with labor laws and other regulations.
- Strategic Services are used by the enterprise to address medium- and long-term issues in order to improve the performance of the enterprise, its access to markets, and its ability to compete. For example, strategic services can help the enterprise to identify and service markets, design products, set up facilities, and seek financing etc.
Such business development services in general include training, advisory services, marketing facilitation, market research and business linkage promotion.