The Small Industries Development Organization (SIDO) is the main government arm for small-scale industries promotion in the country; its main budget comes from the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIT).It has offices in 20 regions of the country28 and a staff of 265. State-owned Industrial Support Organizations (ISOs) also exist to provide business development services to manufacturing enterprises across the country, including SMEs. Governments in each of Tanzania’s 21 regions, and the 130 districts within them, are supposed to incorporate enterprise/SME development as an important policy tool in their own district development plans.
A long list of other government departments, donors, NGOs and private sector organizations are key actors in the development of the SME sector (see Annex 1 for a partial list). One of the challenges of the MIT-SME Section will be to coordinate the activities of all these players in order to achieve an integrated, focused effort for the benefit of the SME sector.
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