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DTI, Go Negosyo forge partnership for MSME development programs

Published Mar 23, 2024 09:18 am

More programs and initiatives aligned with the development of the country’s micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are to be expected from the collaboration between non-profit organization Go Negosyo and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).

Go Negosyo_DTI.jpgOfficials of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in the meeting with non-profit Go Negosyo. From Go Negosyo are (from left) Executive Director Mina Akram, Senior Adviser Engr. Merly Cruz, founder Joey Concepcion; and from the DTI are Trade Secretary Alfredo Pascual, Undersecretary and Chief of Staff Ana Carolina Sanchez, Undersecretary for MSME Development Group Christina Roque, BSMED Director Emma Asusano, and BSMED Supervising Trade Industry Development Specialist Michelle Maramag. (Photo from Go Negosyo)

In a statement from Go Negosyo, it said that the collaboration aims to upscale the country’s MSMEs.

“Go Negosyo is here to support the DTI in whatever way it can,” Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion said.

“Our aim has always been to give our MSMEs access to the three M’s needed by any entrepreneur to succeed: money, markets and mentoring,” he added.

The programs and initiatives included in this collaboration are Kapatid Mentor MicroEntrepreneurs (KMME), One Town One Product (OTOP), and other capability programs.

Also included are the group’s free entrepreneurship mentoring roadshow 3M on Wheels and its collaborative program with First Lady Liza Araneta Marcos’s LAB For All initiative.

Trade Secretary Alfredo Pascual vowed the continuation of DTI’s partnership with Go Negosyo, saying that the organization can count on the agency’s support especially since it prepares to expand its programs to the provinces.

Aside from Concepcion and Pascual, the meeting was attended by DTI Undersecretary Cris Roque, DTI Undersecretary and Chief of Staff Ana Carolina Sanchez, BSMED Director Emma Asusano, BSMED STIDS Michelle Maramag, Go Negosyo Senior Adviser Engr. Merly Cruz, and Go Negosyo Executive Director Mina Akram.

“During the meeting, specific milestones of the KMME program were discussed, focusing specifically on how it continues to enable MSMEs in the country,” the statement said.

Initiated in 2016 as an entrepreneurship mentoring program that seeks to facilitate the growth and development of small businesses in the Philippines by enhancing their business management competencies through coaching and mentoring, KMME is the longest-running program of Go Negosyo with the DTI.

To date, almost 13,000 MSMEs have completed the KMME program, and almost a thousand certified mentors are among its ranks.

KMME also provided the blueprint for the ASEAN Mentorship for Entrepreneurs (AMEN) Program, which is currently being implemented across all ASEAN member-states.

The states have been using KMME modules translated into their respective languages.

Based on KMME’s success, the DTI said it plans to capitalize on it and integrate the programs’s curriculum into the agency’s other initiatives.

The agency also has plans to track the progress of the MSMEs, as well as build and update its database for a more current available MSMEs database in the country.

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