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Sustaining Business Development Services Programmes - City Of Windhoek / Namibia

The SME Incubation Centre is established by the City of Windhoek to provide prospective SMEs with the necessary and relevant capacity building and business support to develop and expand their businesses, the focus being on emerging entrepreneurs, existing and starting SME businesses that intend to grow their business into formal sector. The objectives is for SMEs to be accommodatd at the centre on a temporary basis and within a conducive enviroment that will enable them to grow from informal to formal business.

Business Development services such as Capacity Building and Mentorship Services to the Entrepreneurs at the SME Incubation Centre are been provided for the period of three years and after three years this SME are graduating from the centre and this system is really working, most of the SMEs who were accomodated at the centre having only one or two workers have created more employment opprotunities and are now operating in industrial areas because most of this business has grown from informal to formal businesses. this programme is sustainable because it is working in Namibia, we have also notice that most of the people from different countries in Africa are visiting our centre to learn from our experience.

(We commit ourselves to make the City of Windhoek a vibrant, economic and technological centre of excellence in Africa in order to enhance the quality of life of all our people)

Leah, Windhoek Namibia