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Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>With robust business models in place, new businesses are expected to be created while existing and potential entrepreneurs will be capacitated.<\/b><\/p>\n

It is expected that under the models, micro enterprises projects in agriculture, housing, social protection, youth development and education sectors will also be implemented to create employment, wealth as well as improve livelihoods.<\/p>\n

Also, micro enterprises will be revamped to ensure that they were economically sustainable.<\/p>\n

Minister of Entrepreneurship, Mr Karabo Gare said this in his presentation of the ministry\u2019s budget estimates for the 2023\/2024 financial year in Parliament on Monday March 27.<\/p>\n

Mr Gare said owing to the ministry\u2019s mandate to provide leadership and overall policy direction, strategy and standards on business development, the scope of priorities was summarised into two areas, which included ensuring that enterprising individuals existed as well as avail lucrative business development opportunities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIntegration of these two will lead to the creation of more SMEs which will create more jobs for the citizens,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The ministry\u2019s portfolio responsibilities, he said, included, among others, enterprise development and coordination, business development policy, women and youth empowerment as well as wealth creation.<\/p>\n

Other responsibilities include citizen economic empowerment, support for innovative projects, business consultancy and advisory Service, business counselling and mentoring, consumer cooperatives development as well as integrated support to SMEs.<\/p>\n

Minister Gare added that the ministry\u2019s mandate was driven by four programmes which included doing business reforms, infrastructure development, wealth creation and computerisation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ministry will undertake holistic business reforms to mitigate the risks of doing business. This will be done through improving government policies, laws and regulations and by stimulating competition through enabling new SMMEs to thrive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He indicated that through value chain development, linkages between different stages in the production of goods and services would further be developed, with the aim to create employment, maximise resources and enhance export revenue.<\/p>\n

On infrastructure development, he said the ministry would adopt a cluster-based development approach to provide SMEs with infrastructure in order to enhance their productivity, competitiveness and capacity building towards sustainable, equitable as well as inclusive economic growth.<\/p>\n

\u201cAddressing poverty, inequality and unemployment in order to continually improve the quality of life for Batswana is a priority area for government,\u201d he said adding that, as part of the Reset Agenda, economic empowerment programmes had been consolidated under the newly created programme to ensure that they were impactful.<\/p>\n

He said the newly created programmes included poverty eradication, women economic empowerment, agribusiness and Livestock Management and Infrastructure Development (LIMID).<\/p>\n

\u201cConsolidation will result in efficiency and effectiveness in the provision of incentives for marginalised groups,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

It was on such backdrop that Minister Gare proposed budget estimates of over P1.045 billion, comprising over P772 million for the recurrent budget and over P272 million under the development budget.<\/p>\n

He said infrastructure development would be allocated the lion\u2019s share of development budget of over P171.3 million while P31.5 million would be used to construct SMEs business hubs along the A1 Highway.<\/p>\n

He said the Doing Business programme required P10 million, out of which P5 million would fund enterprise competitiveness, TOKAFALA with the other half going towards promotion of entrepreneurship culture and mindset change projects.<\/p>\n

Parliament subsequently approved the proposed estimates requested for the next financial year.<\/p>\n

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