1. Policy Development and Legal Services:

. Formulate policy for SMEs development.

. Design strategic plans for SMEs.

. Conduct research on SMEs issues.

. Develop and Maintain an up-to-date data base on SMEs.

. Undertake market research.

. Set up small business resource centre.

. Facilitate cross-border trade and investment

. Identify and review prohibitive laws and regulations.

. Provide legal advice.

. Develop an enabling legal and regulatory framework.

. Design incentives that promote growth of SMEs

2. Capacity Building for SMEs

. Identify entrepreneurship and business management training requirements.

. Facilitate entrepreneurship and business management training.

. Facilitate provision of technical skills.

. Provide business advisory and support services

. Identify both local and external markets.

. Facilitate formulation and strengthening of clusters and associations.

. Put in place and enforce a code of conduct and ethics for SMEs.

. Create and strengthen enterprises culture through encouraging initiative, creativity, quality and good labour and industrial relations.

. Design and manage a data of organisations and individuals that provide training to SMEs.

3. Resource Mobilisation and Project Management.

. Develop and implement innovative resource mobilisation strategies.

. Mobilise resources.

. Manage and monitor funding schemes.

. Provide guidelines for the design of project proposals.

. Appraise/ adjudicate projects

. Monitor implementation of programmes.

4. Administration and Finance

. Mobilise resources.

. Provide financial, human resource management and administrative support services.