Small Enterprise Development in MACEDONIA

Small Enterprise Development
to coordinate the activities of the various actors, and to provide orientation and
direction to all organisations concerned with SME development, thus ensuring a
coherent and comprehensive approach to the problems the SME sector faces.
3. Agency for Entrepreneurship Promotion
(APPRM)
3.1 Mandate and activities of APPRM
The Agency for Entrepreneurship Support (APPRM) is responsible for
implementing the Government’s SME policies; these are now set out in the new
SME Strategy 2007 – 2013 and the SME Programme 2007 – 2010 . APPRM’s
mission is the promotion of entrepreneurship and small businesses, through the
implementation of priority projects that reflect demand-driven areas of intervention
in SMEs and Government programmes for entrepreneurship support and SME
competitiveness.
The main responsibilities of the APPRM are:
• Creating and developing the institutional infrastructure to support and
develop entrepreneurship and competitiveness in the SME sector;
• Implementing and coordinating state and international support for
SMEs;
• Promoting entrepreneurship through financial and non-financial forms of
support measures;
• Implementing the programme of measures and activities to support
entrepreneurship and create competitiveness in the small business.
On these documents, see sections 1.3 and 1.4.
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