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The SIYB
programme in PNG was established through a project funded by AusAID
and UNDP, hosted by the Department of
Commerce and Industry through the
Small Business Development Corporation, a statutory body and
implemented by the
ILO.
Phase 1 of the project began in 1996 and ended in 1998 following the
abrupt closure of the SBDC Offices under the 1999 Budget initiatives
handed down in November 1998.
At that stage SBDC provided direct delivery of services through a
network of branch offices in the main centres and a staff in excess
of 70. The services were also provided to a network of SED providers
spread all over the country, called Network Partners (NPs).
The Project was transferred to the Investment Promotion Authority
(IPA) following the closure of SBDC in April 1999. During this
period all branch offices were closed and all staff retrenched. All
services of SBDC were cancelled, with the exception of the SIYB
programme operating from IPA.
Contact with most NPs was lost and very little record was kept of
training activities taking place over this period, although training
still continued and training material was still provided from IPA.
With the change of Government in July 1999, the new Minister for
Trade & Industry directed that the Project be relocated back to
SBDC. That directive was taken with immediate effect and by January
17th 2000, the project was physically relocated to SBDC office with
its staff, materials and equipment.
The major change being that the staff compliment of SBDC was reduced
to a ceiling of 23. Following a strategic planning exercise, it was
decided to no longer provide direct delivery of services, but to
capacitate the NPs to undertake delivery of services on behalf and
in partnership with SBDC.
During the first phase of the project, the standard SIYB training
material was adapted for the PNG environment and Trainers and Master
Trainers were capacitated to effectively use the training material
programme with the respective target groups of the organizations
(Network Partners) they represent.
A data base was also created to collect data on all training
conducted, and monitoring and evaluation data relating to these
training services provided by NPs, their SIYB Trainers and Master
Trainers.
The data base was not updated during the period of closure of SBDC,
resulting in a lot of training data missing. Despite attempts to
clear this backlog, the data for that period cannot be relied on as
being complete.
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