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1. Plaque of Recognition given to DTI 8 for successfully establishing a Quality Management system certified to ISO 9001 Standards

Government Quality Management Committee

17 January 2012

Rizal Hall, Malacañan Palace, Manila

2. Top Performance (Rank No. 5) DTI-CARP Region 8 for CY 2006-1st Semester 2007

DTI-CARP

4 December 2007

Tagbilaran City, Bohol

2. Certificate of Recognition given to DTI 8 as the National Agency with the Most Updated Financial Statements for its invaluable support and sustained efforts in achieving the objectives of the electronic New Government Accounting System (e-NGAS)

Commission on Audit

 

22 November 2007

Sulu Hotel, Quezon City

3. 2006 Award for Best Example of Sub-national High Impact, Sustainable, Coordinated, Donor-supported Business Environment Reform Program in Asia

Donor Committee for Enterprise Development

29 November 2006

Asia Consultative Conference

4. Excellence Awardee 2004 Office Category, National Government Sector, Regional Office Level

Association of Government Accountants of the Philippines (Eastern Visayas Chapter)

27 April  2005

AGAP EV Fellowship and Awards, Leyte State University, Baybay, Leyte

5. Plaque of Appreciation given to DTI 8 for the valuable support and contribution to the FAO-UN Haiyan Emergency, Recovery and Rehabilitation Programme

Food and Agriculture Organization United Nations

(no date and venue)

6. Plaque of Appreciation for the invaluable support to the implementation of the CAFOD/CRS Phase 2B Livelihood Program “Sowing the seeds of recovery and moving together to the market”

Catholic Relief Services

4 October 2016

7. Certificate of Appreciation given to DTI 8 in grateful appreciation of its contribution to the successful transfer of beneficiary families to the Yolanda permanent resettlement sites in Tacloban City, Leyte

Office of the President

Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas

16 December 2016

Tacloban City

8. Certificate of Recognition given to DTI 8 in grateful recognition of its valuable contribution of CARE’s Trade Fair, Business Enabling Financing and SME Forum on September 16-18, 2016

CARE Philippines

18 September 2016

SM Savemore Market, Tacloban CIty

MSME ASSISTANCE

Business and Investment Enabling Environment (BIEE)

1. Negosyo Center

RA 10644 mandates the establishment of a Negosyo Center in all provinces, cities and municipalities. Some of the major functions of Negosyo Centers are:

(a) Promote ease of doing business and access to services for MSMEs within its jurisdiction;
(b) Coordinate and facilitate processes of government related to the set-up and management of MSMEs;
(c) Accept and facilitate all registration application of MSMEs;
(d) Coordinate with the respective local government units (LGUs) and liaise with concerned government agencies to process the duly accomplished forms submitted by the MSMEs.

At present, there are 51 Negosyo Centers established in various cities and municipalities in the region.

2. Business Name Registration

Business Name (BN) Registration is one of the principal front-line services of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). It aims to maintain a nationwide registry of business names mainly on Sole Proprietorship.

3. Philippine Business Registry

The Philippines Business Registry (PBR) is a Government-initiated project that facilitates business registration-related transactions by integrating all agencies involved in business registration, such as the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Cooperative Development Authority (CDA), Pag-Ibig, Philhealth, SSS, BIR and the LGUs.

4. Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index

The Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index is an annual ranking of Philippine cities and municipalities developed by the National Competitiveness Council through the Regional Competitiveness Committees (RCCs) with the assistance of the United States Agency for International Development.

Cities and municipalities are ranked on their competitiveness based on an overall competitiveness score. The overall competitiveness score is the sum of scores on three main pillars which pool data from several sub-indicators. The three main pillars are: economic dynamism, government efficiency and infrastructure. Scores are determined by the values of the actual data, as well as the completeness of the submitted data. The higher the score of a city or municipality, the more competitive it is.

5. Local Investment and Incentives Code, and Capacity Building for Local Government Unit

On streamlining business permit and licensing system (BPLS), and ease of doing business.

6. Industry Cluster Enhancement (ICE) Program

Value chain analysis and upgrading action planning for industry and Livelihood development services for MSMEs in identified priority industry clusters: coco coir, wearable and homestyle, cacao, processed fruits and nuts, bamboo, coffee, coconut.

7. Roads Leveraging Linkages of Industry and Trade (ROLL IT) Program

DTI-DPWH tie-up to fast track construction of access roads/bridges that facilitate trade among priority supply chains and enterprises to markets, logistic hubs, terminals, and ports.

Access to Market (A2M)

1. Product Development

Product development, also called new product management, is a series of steps that includes the conceptualization, design, development and marketing of newly created or newly rebranded goods or services.

2. Participation in Local Trade Fairs

- Kasadyaan Fair
- Bahandi Fair
- Arts and Crafts Fair
- OTOP Fair
- National Trade Fair

3. Participation in Foreign Trade Fairs

- Manila FAME
- Japan Fair
- CITEM
- Ambiente

4. One Town, one Product Next Generation (OTOP NEXT GEN)

DTI offers a comprehensive assistance package empowering MSMEs through product development, online marketing, standard compliance and training.
5. Brand Equity Development Program
Brand development and promotion for quality local products that promotes “pride of place”, and crates “happy and fully satisfied customers”.

Access to Finance (A2F)

1. Small Business Corporation (SBC)

Small Business Corporation (SBCorp) is a government financial institution attached to the Department of Trade and Industry and mandated to provide financing and credit guarantees to the country's MSMEs.

2. SBC - Enterprise Rehabilitation Financing

SBC - Enterprise Rehabilitation Financing Program is a disaster-response program of the Small Business Corporation designed to put back on their feet enterprises stricken by natural calamities, especially those destroyed by Super Typhoon Yolanda.

3. Financial Facilitation with GFIs to assist MSMEs affected by Super Typhoon Yolanda

DTI assists MSMEs by facilitating and coordinating their respective business loan applications with government financing institutions such as Landbank, Development Bank of the Philippines, etc.

4. Financial Facilitation with conduits of SBC to assist MSMEs affected by Super Typhoon Yolanda

DTI assists MSMEs by facilitating and coordinating their respective business loan applications with lending institutions, cooperatives or groups who are micro-finance conduits of the Small Business Corporation.

5. Pondo Para sa Pagbabago at Pagsenso (P3)

Alternative source of financing that is easy to access at reasonable cost for micro entrepreneurs who do not have access to credit or access it at a very high cost. Currently, the beneficiaries of P3 are market vendors and stall owners of the Tacloban City Supermarket.

6. New Financing Products
· Trade Inventory Build-up Loan Fund
· Food and Drugs (FDA) Licensing and Production Site Compliance Loan Fund
· Patents Licensing and Inventory Build Up Equity Fund
· Commercialization of Innovation Awardees Equity Fund
· Halal and Kosher Certification Loan Fund
· Equity Financing for Corporatized Micro Enterprises
· Loan Fund for Farm Development for Pocket Farmer-Entrepreneurs

Productivity and Efficiency (P&E)

1. Shared Service Facilities

Shared Service Facilities (SSF) Project - A major component of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development (MSMED) Program which aims to improve the competitiveness of MSMEs by providing them with machinery, equipment, tools, systems, skills and knowledge under a shared system.

2. Small Medium Enterprise Roving Academy (SMERA)

Continuous training and learning program through 7 stages of enterprise development to elevate and value MSMEs’ competitiveness in domestic and international market.

3. Project Kapatid Mentor Me Program

Kapatid Angat Lahat: Mentor Me Program intends to help micro and small entrepreneurs scale up their enterprises through weekly or regular coaching and mentoring by business owners and practitioner-angelpreneurs on the different functional areas of entrepreneurship, with the end goal of producing confident entrepreneurs with the right mindset and business know-how, who will be able to sustain and scale up their enterprises.

The program is a component of the KAPATID Project of the DTI in partnership with the Philippine Centre for Entrepreneurship-Go Negosyo that aims to push big and medium business including the micro and small enterprises (MSEs) or “Small Kapatid” into their companies’ value chains either as clients and consumers of their products and services, or as suppliers of raw materials, producers, or employees.

4. Livelihood Seeding Program
Training and business starter/recovery kits for MSMEs affected by super typhoon and located in less developed areas.

 

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