Staff Reporter
Lahore
Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP), Ministry of Commerce, and Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA), Ministry of Industries and Production inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to boost mutual cooperation and complement efforts towards export and trade development.
Talking to media here Saturday, the SMEDA Media Consultant Liaqat Ali Gohar disclosed that the MOU was aimed at the development of the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and women entrepreneurs with special focus to increase their capacity to export and use e-commerce platforms.
“Under the MoU both the parties have established a regular and reciprocal exchange of trade and economic information, and also information concerning important international and domestic events, carried out for the purpose of identifying business conditions and opportunities”.
Both parties also agreed to exchange information related to any joint working program that is or may be developed in collaboration with each other.
To a question, he elaborated that TDAP will facilitate SMEDA’s linkage development with Commercial Sections in the Embassies for trade data, other related information etc., and SME related activities.
Both organizations would jointly conduct training programs, seminars and workshops locally as well as internationally on all aspects of exports and skill development for SMEs and women entrepreneurs ,including the usage of e-commerce, online business and business digitization, he maintained.
Liaqat Ali said that the parties will also coordinate for marketing promotion and awareness of the programme.
