WITH OVER J$450 million in grant funding available to eligible micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and their support organisations, the Private Sector Development Programme (PSDP) is staging a series of islandwide work-shops to guide companies and organi-sations on how to access financing under the programme.
The PSDP officially published its call for companies to submit proposal on June 30. The islandwide workshops, which will begin on July 21, are designed to bring businesses in the micro, small and medium-sized enterprises up to date on how they may benefit from grant funding, on a cost sharing basis, under the European Union/ Govern-ment of Jamaica-funded PSDP.
Delaine Morgan, head of the PSDP Project Manage-ment Unit at JAMPRO, explained that the workshops are being used to provide information on the PSDP application proce-dures and to clarify any questions which potential applicants may have as it relates to the process.
The first workshop, which will be held on Friday, July 21, at the Old Marina Hotel in Port Antonio, is intended for private sector business operators in Portland, St. Ann, St. Thomas and St. Mary. This will be followed by one in Montego Bay at the Sunset Beach Resort on Tuesday, July 25, which is expected to attract business interests from the western parishes of St. James, Westmoreland, Hanover and Trelawny; and another at the Knutsford Court Hotel in Kingston, on Thursday, July 27, for business operators from Kingston, St. Andrew and St. Catherine.
The final workshop in the series will be held at Golf View Hotel in Mandeville on August 3, and will benefit MSMEs from the southern parishes of Manchester, Clarendon and St. Elizabeth.
