Empowering SMEs
Backbone of Emerging Markets
Small and Medium Enterprises(SMEs) are the backbone of ASEAN’s growing economy accounting for between 89% and 99% of total businesses and between 52% and 97% of total employment in the ten ASEAN Member States. SMEs make real contribution to income and employment generation, gender and youth empowerment through their diverse business participation and their widespread presence in non-urban and rural areas. By empowering SMEs in the region, we believe that SMEHub Asia can create meaningful impact to the economies, especially emerging economies and resiliency in the backbone of ASEAN Economy.
What’s
SMEHub Asia
Backbone of Emerging Markets
Digital
Digital has become a powerful medium for SMEs to leverage for operating more efficiently, creating better and inclusive products, reaching global customers and bringing the organisation into the future. SMEHub Asia provides a helping hand to organisation to become more digitally capable.
Financial
Financial is an essential tool for any entrepreneur to build a successful business. It is important that SMEs and entrepreneurs have access to acquire knowledge and skills related to Financial Literacy and funds especially in emerging economies.
SMEHub Asia creates impact by helping SMEs to improve their financial controls and provide access to funding.
Responsible Business
SMEs to be a responsible business is the utmost important factor so that business is not only to do well but also do good as they make up the majority population of the emerging economy. By enabling SMEs to run their operations responsibly, it creates a positive impact for communities as well as the environment.
SMEHub Asia supports SMEs to be healthy businesses that contribute to a healthy environment and healthy communities in the emerging economies.
Trade
SMEs in the region are often facing the challenges that include access to information, getting support and so on.
SMEHub Asia provides strategic guidance through consultations and enhances the information flow so that SMEs can navigate better and make informed decisions for international trade.
Gender Equity
Gender equity is the vital driving force for creating inclusive economic growth. SMEHub Asia formulates Women – focused entrepreneurship programmes that nurture an environment in which women entrepreneurs can succeed sustainably..
SME Asia takes Gender equity as an important issue to be addressed in all businesses and formulates Gender equity as cross-cutting issue for programme development process.
To help SMEs grow better and stronger, the support ecosystem needs to address a variety of challenges that resonate in current global and local context.
SMEHub Asia creates impact with the focus on technical assistance needed by SMEs in the emerging economies.
Our Impacts
For sustainable growth of SMEs in the emerging markets, SMEHub Asia enables SMEs to become stronger through its different programmes aiming to build capacity and to create connections across stakeholders that will help them to be a better backbone of the economy.
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Our Partners
SMEHub Asia is an initiative supported by our incredible partners. This initiative would not be possible without our partner's generous support.
Community Partners creating "meaningful impact" together
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360 Capacity Building
Whatever the activity that a business is doing or going to do, it is executed by the people in its organization. Investing in/ Developing the human capital will ensure that business meet the growing trends.
SMEHub Asia’s training programmes are formulated not only for the entrepreneurs but also to help entrepreneurs building required skillset for their people.
Hands-on Consultations
SMEHub Asia aims to facilitate the learning process and implementation process to maximize the effectiveness of the training in which SMEs will have a chance to explore more and implement better together with subject matter experts.
Digital Implementation
Advice is relatively easy to find but translating that advice to actions will be the main challenge for SMEs.
SMEHub Asia aims to provide hands – on support during any transformational activities that are carried out in your business by pairing with digital experts for digital transformation initiatives.
Funding Readiness
Financing is the crucial component of business to generate growth and resilience. Strategic business directions are also strengthened by data-driven financial decisions.
SMEHub Asia aims to prepare the SMEs to be funding ready by consulting and providing training that are relevant to the business as well as sharing best practices.
Access to Funds
SMEs can only grow, transform, and be innovative by investing in people, tools and equipment.
SMEHub Asia aims to create meaningful connections and relationships between local/international investors and SMEs.
Business Links
Majority of the SMEs goal is to extend their services and products to the international market.
SMEHub Asia aims to support SMEs linking with international trade opportunities by providing access to information, help prepare SMEs for trade and connecting with relevant business partners.
Accelerators
SMEHub Asia runs industry – focused or need – focused accelerators that are relevant to specific countries’ challenges. SMEHub Asia provides accelerator programmes for SMEs to leverage a wide range of support to transform their businesses for growth.
