Abstract
This study attempts to investigate the role of Small and Medium Enterprise Development Authority (SMEDA) in development of entrepreneurial activities in Balochistan. The study is exploratory in nature and the researchers used semi-structured interviews and secondary data for data collection. Five semi-structured interviews were conducted from managerial staff of SMEDA, Quetta. In addition, the researcher also used SMEDA surveys, reports and documents to answer the researcher questions. It has been found from the interview transcripts and SMEDA documents that SMEDA is mainly focusing on nine sectors in Balochistan to boost entrepreneurship. It has taken various initiatives and providing different services and support mechanism to encourage people toward entrepreneurship. Such initiatives and services include prefeasibility studies, business plans, commercial contract template, Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) projects and common facility centres. It works with different stakeholders and offers range of trainings, seminars and workshops as per requirements of entrepreneurs and SMEs. While working in Balochistan to boost the entrepreneurial activities in the province, SMEDA is facing several problems such as, access to finance, lack of entrepreneurial mindset, security issues of the province, legal and political issues and technical knowhow. Although there are several difficulties, but SMEDA is taking some measures to overcome these difficulties by working with different stakeholders. With the collaboration of State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and other financial institutions/Banks, SMEDA is trying to resolve the financing issue. It is organizing training programs, awareness sessions and Business Competition Plans in universities to change the mindset and encourage the youth towards the entrepreneurship
Jameel Ahmed1, , Shoakat Ali 2, , Saba Raja3, Kaneez Fatima. (2020) Role of Small and Medium Enterprise Development Authority (SMEDA) in Development of Entrepreneurship: A Case of Balochistan, Balochistan Review, Volume 2, Issue 2.
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