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One was sponsored by nine TNCs eight SMEs in the non manufacturing sector participated.

To this end, working links between firms and trade unions and occupational training centres were established through sponsorship arrangements.

Assistance from private commercial enterprises

Firms increasingly appreciate the assistance provided by Governments in the acquisition of new technology and in training for upgrading skills.

(c) Assistance to the revival of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs)

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Experience shows that the development of subcontracting arrangements between large firms and SMEs can give an incentive for large firms to provide financial, technical and other assistance to SMEs.

The Viet Nam Association of Young Entrepreneurs provides assistance to young people in starting up and running their businesses.

(a) Integrated Enterprise Assistance Agency (AAAE)

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Has this kind of assistance enabled microenterprises to grow into SMEs?

(iii) SME support mechanisms and agencies

(c) SME support mechanisms and agencies

A. The nature of SME support agencies

Experts emphasized the need to help SMEs work together and move online and, in particular, to help them compete with larger players in the industry.

Studies of African and other countries show that inter firm or market networks have helped to provide business support services highly valued by SMEs.

It also assists the entrepreneurs in gaining access to financing and business ventures, in linking up with larger established companies and in establishing systems to facilitate growth.

Above all, it facilitates the achievement of a coherent policy framework for enterprise and SME development.

This would contribute to the growth of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in particular.

D. Towards stronger support to small enterprises

Linkages with local businesses can also help the latter to explore new export or product markets.

60. Support programmes should be designed to help promote inter firm linkages among SMEs and between them and larger firms so as to improve skills, business information and production, marketing and sales opportunities of SMEs through inter firm and market networks.

As a part of the programme, UNIDO will also participate actively in various forums related to the development of policies for the implementation of the Montreal Protocol, including

In Mexico, for example, an important concept in the Guadalajara pilot project on ISO 14000 for SMEs is the cooperation between large and small enterprises.

Incubators provide business support functions, including physical space and logistics, to ease the formation and running of new enterprises.

Moreover, support mechanisms and programmes need to respond to the diversity of firms involved and the types of problems faced by different categories of SMEs, ranging from subsistence or income supplementing microenterprises operating in the informal sector to internationalized, technologically advanced SMEs.

B. The promotion of SME support agencies

The aim of the counselling allowances is to ensure that entrepreneurs have an opportunity to get entrepreneurial counselling from professional consultants on beneficial terms, to support the growth of enterprises and the creation of new jobs, to provide know how to entrepreneurs and to help entrepreneurs find new markets.

Such coursework both prepares students for the rigours of managing enterprises, as well as helps facilitate a culture of entrepreneurship.

Licensing processes can help to identify enterprises that comply with legislation and to deter others Land use planning and development control These combined instruments are critical in enhancing the sustainability of new tourism development.

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Efforts to make Ivorian enterprises more competitive.

C. SME support measures and agencies

With respect to the types of enterprises, one may distinguish between informal sector enterprises, essentially microenterprises, and enterprises in the formal sector, which include some microenterprises, SMEs and large firms.

61. Support programmes may also serve as an incentive for enterprises, particularly SMEs, to better organize themselves and to register themselves with the authorities.

The purpose of Empretec is to help foster entrepreneurial capabilities and the growth of internationally competitive SMEs in developing countries.

In this regard, SMEs needed particular assistance in which the State could play an important role, including access to essential inputs.

Furthermore, national youth led business funds could be established in order to provide necessary assistance to young entrepreneurs.

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IV. Support mechanisms and services for SMEs

(e) Funding for small income generating businesses (run from people's homes or from other premises), especially those that take into account the family's socio economic circumstances and essential needs

In general, SPRING targets SMEs as several of its assistance schemes (e.g. LEFS, V Loan, LETAS) have a ceiling of fixed assets of no more than S 15 million and of fewer than 10 (service industry is up to 200).

The Regionalization Finance Scheme (RFS) from IE Singapore also helps local SMEs (total assets less than S 30 million) to set up overseas operations.

(d) To strengthen policy and institutional support for the development of export oriented small and medium sized enterprises and the advancement of women entrepreneurs