EKURHULENI DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Presentation TO SMME OPPORTUNITY ROADSHOW 24 May 2016 Jorro Segabutla DH: Community Enterprise Development 16/06/28 1 Presentaon Overview • Enterprise Development • Incubaon • Innovaon • Street Trading • Business Licensing • Township Economies Enterprise Development Mentorship Programme /s regards. Procurement for required equipment’s to operaonalise • Panel beang the centre has been finalised. The centre will be fully operaonal in May 2015. The func/ons of the centre will be to train on how to • The city has appointed a mentor to skill 25 local panel beaters and advance their growth in the industry. This mentorship programme will tender, provide tender advice, and run workshops of supply chain regulaons and advice on private sector buying. take six month and will end in June 2015. The panel beaters aended the session on a fortnightly basis where they get business coaching • The provide workshops in partnership with naonal government, from the Mentor and other special sessions with industry including provincial and municipali/es doing prac/cal’s in their facili/es. • Target of 25 service providers per sessions monthly. Procurement • Light Manufacturing opportuni/es will be received from July 2015 buyers will be displayed • Another group of 25 light manufacturers around Ekurhuleni are on the board for service providers to see. The Feedback consultaons aending mentorship programme specifically on manufacturing. The will be done on Tuesdays /once a week. The Seng up of the office mentorship programme will take six month as well. The idea is to take will involve relevant departments internally and will make the tender operaonal light manufacturing companies and assist them with advice copies be available for free. compliance issues, mee/ng prescribed standards and enhance quality Access to Market assurance issues. • The department has iden/fied opportune markets for SME and • General Entrepreneurship mentoring cooperaves such as the supplier day, exhibi/ons and departmental contracts where obligaon for buying from local entrepreneurs are • Forty (40) of the SMEs on Ekurhuleni are included in the enforced. The department has facilitated for 35 SME to aend the Entrepreneurship mentorship programme to assist with simple aspect of “how to run your business”. Issues such as cash flow management, Denel Supplier day which was held on 5 March 2015 and it will do so personnel management, payroll market and promo/on and day to with the PRASA/GIBELA Supplier day which will be held on the 12 day running of business. May 2015. The department is at the stage where it will finalise the procurement of the Service provider to assist with the facilitaon and Access to Finance securing of stall at trading floor of the Rand Show in NASREC for • Given the impediments by legislaon for the city not to provide twenty 20 SMEs taking place in April 2015 and also the ESKOM funding directly to SME and Cooperaves as grant and loans. The city Exhibion in Coca-Cola Dome; Randburg in September 2015. have leverages on other people’s money to support SME financial through the Ekurhuleni Business facilitaon network. The city is able to facilitate funding to individual SME through support from ANGLO GOLD ZIMELE, ABSA Small Business Fund and Small Enterprise Funding Agency. Tender Advice Centre • Office is already designated at the EBFN to assist with Tender Advice. Two interns are allocated for this func/on and are due for training in Enterprise Development SEDA Ekurhuleni Branch – 100 mentored and mentees SMME’s • Since SEDA opened offices in November they have achieved a Business Licensing and Compliance lot in different places through mentorship programmes. They • The department has finalised the revised street trading by-laws have seen 135 clients to date. They help clients to register and which will be looked at by legal and be submiKed to council for then assess them and take them to training. They have assisted approval. The department has established an ad-hoc business 50 clients thus far with training. They have 26 interven/ons licencing implementaon unit in conjunc/on with collaboraon and commiKed 750 000 on average of 30 000 per interven/on. CCAs’ such Boksburg, Kempton Park and Nigel to assist with The jobs created and success stories all that we need and it’s assessing, gran/ng and issuing of licenses. The department has difficult to find those. Without solid partnership they cannot bought more card machines to augment the two it previously create jobs from those businesses they have. They have had. These machines assist with the street trading permits. started segmen/ng people according to gender and age because it will help to keep record. Business Place • The business place is at the heart of the centre and is assis/ng with pre-assessment of visitors at EBFN and referrals. Conduc/ng internal stakeholders engagement. Informa;on Dissemina;on • The department connue with its programme to run workshops and seminars and part of empowering SME with informaon. Speakers from SARS, NEF, and IDC etc. are invited from /me to /me to present on their offering and how to comply. The following seminar and workshops were held in the first two quarters of this financial year;- – 100 disabled – 200 contractor development program – 100 youth unit – 100 department SMME’s INCUBATION PROGRAMME The Incubaon is an intense SME training programme involving the industry and exper/se in a respec/ve field. The programme includes close monitoring of knowledge, growth and general progression of the enterprise. The city of Ekurhuleni has established three incubaon centres and is in the process to set-up two more in this financial. The following are the incubaon centres that are established. Ekurhuleni Jewellery Project • The Ekurhuleni jewellery project is an incubaon setup through a partnership between Rand Refinery, Mintek Ekurhuleni City and SEDA. The purpose of this incubaon is to enhance beneficiaon in metal and stone to produce good quality jewellery. To do this the incubaon has to produce new quality entrants into the industry and teach them to manufacture such jewels and to comprehend latest technology and high-tech equipment’s. The incubaon has 20 incubates within it facili/es. Lepharo Base Metal Incuba8on • The Lepharo Base Metal Incubaon was ini/ally established to incubate businesses to manufacture base metals such as Brass, Aluminium etc. and to produce components with these base metals. Lepharo acquired more exper/se in running of incubaon centres and it was necessary to diversify product. At the present moment Lepharo has 51 incubates and are showing sign of success. • It is this reason that the EMM considers to extend the partnership with LEPHARO to op/mise the use of industrial Hives to uplij the tenant SMME and to implement proper monitoring and evaluaon systems. The city has implemented the Shared Industry Produc/on Facility project on behalf of the province through the Provisional Grant. Before then, the City has already been running the Industrial Hives Programme to support cooperaves with the working facility, machinery and equipment’s. Construc8on Incuba8on Spartan Industrial Park already Thirty Three (33) incubates has been recruited and training at the Centre. • The Ekurhuleni Seda Construc/on Incubator (SCI) was established in May 2014, however, the SCI Ekurhuleni Branch relocated to new premises located at number 68 Rigger Street, Spartan, Kempton Park. Renovaons and customizaon of the premises were assumed in on the third week of May. The recruitment of contractors started during the month of December 2014 whereby a group of outreach program was achieved ranging from CIDB grading 1-2. A second round of recruitment took place in April/May where the mainstream group has to be secured. Chemical Incuba8on will be set up in Tembisa Business Park and Thokoza(Project in Pipeline) • Chemin submiKed a proposal to Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality for the establishment of a Chemical Incubaon Programme. The incubaon programme will entail the establishment of two manufacturing hubs to be located at the Thokoza Fabricaon Laboratory and Sedibeng Industrial Hive Centre located in Tembisa. The main ac/vity at these hubs will be the manufacturing of chemical detergents, cosme/cs, hair care products and perfumes. The manufacturing of coangs will be established if and when incubates are iden/fied. INNOVATION PROGRAMME The goal of the FabLabs in Ekurhuleni is to provide previously disadvantaged communi/es with access to modern digital manufacturing facili/es with a The economic development department rapid prototyping capability as a means of crossing established two fabricaon laboratories in Thokoza the digital divide while encouraging high level and Tembisa and will be comple/ng the research and development and impac/ng on establishment of the third one in Tsakane by June creavity, innovaon and 21st Century Skills 2015. development. The proven benefits of FabLabs from developing countries around the world have been that it: • Create jobs and help poor communi/es to fight poverty, • Build a high value-add manufacturing focus in their locali/es, • Facilitate the convergence of 1st world and 2nd world economies in their locali/es, • Develop human resources and build cross-cung skills, • Facilitate the development of smart industries by encouraging joint research and community interac/on, • Develop and support compe//ve small enterprises, and • Provide an enabling infrastructure for innovators. INNOVATION PROGRAMME Fablab Conference in Boston in ‘15 Hos/ng of SA Innovaon Conference 2016 Innovaon Hub Allocaon of Three Offices to the Innovaon Hub in Tembisa Business Park Strengthening of Relaonship with CSIR and VUT TOWNSHIP ENTERPRISE HUBS The department has embarked in a programme to develop township hubs in support of the envisaged township economies development strategy. The hubs are centres where small businesses are supported to engage in a fruipul economic ac/vity. This may be manifested by providing trading space, incubaon facili/es, shared industry produc/on facili/es, light manufacturing workshop, business networks plat forms and mentorship or handholding sessions.