The Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA)
About SEDA
The Small Enterprise Development Agency (seda) was established in December 2004 in terms of the National Small Business Act.
This law merged the previous small enterprise development agencies Ntsika Enterprise Promotion Agency, NAMAC Trust and the
Community Public Private Partnerships (CPPP) into a single small enterprise support agency.
The mandate of seda is to design and implement a standard national delivery network that must uniformly apply throughout the
country. Its role includes the support and promotion of co-operative enterprises, particularly those located in rural areas.
The work of seda is carried out in line with the Department of Trade and Industry’s Integrated Small Enterprise Development
Strategy, which aims to:
- Strengthen support for SMME’s access to finance
- Create an enabling regulatory environment
- Expand market opportunities for specific categories of small enterprises
- Localise small business support through a grid of seda-coordinated information
and advice access points
- Initiate a national entrepreneurship drive and expand education and training for small business
- Co-fund minimum business infrastructure facilities in local authority areas across the country
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