1. Department of Small Business Development
Presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development
02 July 2014

2. Mandate
The department will focus on enhanced support to Small Business and Cooperatives development with an emphasis on programmes to advance entrepreneurship amongst women and youth to effectively contribute to job creation and economic growth. Support mechanisms will include access to finance, business skills development, market access, competitiveness, easing regulatory environment, advancing localisation, leveraging on public procurement.

3. Legislative environment
Primary legislation
Small business Developmnent Act 1980
National Small Business Act 1996, amended 2004
Companies Act, 2010
Cooperatives Act , 2013
Industrial Development Coorporation Act 1940
Supplementary legislation & other policy measures
BBBEE Act
National Empowerment Act,
Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act
Youth strategy
Women empowerment strategy
Coops strategy
Innovation and technologyStrategy

4. Primary mission
To enhance the support of small and informal businesses development as well as cooperatives through entrepreneurship & commercialisation, business incubation & franchising, localisation, technology transfer & innovation. To foster financial inclusion as well as create market access for small business

5. Secondary mission
Through enhanced coordination and transversal agreements, advance localisation leveraging on public procurement while ensuring measurable accountability of State institutions in support of small business.

6. SBD business streams
Research, policy, monitoring, evaluation, & intergovernmental relations
Innovation, intellectual property and indigenous knowledge
Incubation & technology programme
Customised interventions/ programmes
Enterprise Development
Cooperatives Development
Incentive programmes
Impact assessment

7. Support functions Corporate services Administration Finance IT HR
Legal
Communication & Marketing

8. Key milestones Migration of functions Consolidation of policy measures
Develop transversal agreements
Establishment of financial institutions

9. Allocated Budget Transferred from the dti: Transferred from EDD
BPD 2014/15: R1billion
Incentives
Administration
Transferred from EDD
SEFA 2014/5: R

10. Challenges
Timelines and dependencies including the proclamation processes
Process in line with Budget Vote
Transversal Agreements