History & Summery of

Activities - 2013Local Development Centers

(LDC)

The Small and Medium Business

Agency (SMBA)

History • The local offices began working at the 90’s

• Variety of services: consulting, training , projects etc.

• 25 offices operated by different NGO’s-> Independent

organizations

• Since 2010 the offices have been directed by the SMBA

• Differences in level of service due to a lack of cooperation

• Reform is currently taking place- LDC’s will be the

executive branch of SMBA

2011

2012

2013

1-5.2014

SMBA’s Local Development Centers: Budget

3.5 M

8.3 M

8.3 M

8.3 M

2.4 M

2.4 M

2.4 M

1 MTotal: 15.8 Million NIS

8.8 M

40.3 M

48.6M

40.1M

2.5 M

13 M

14 M

12 M

Total: 64 Million NIS

Total: 73.3 Million NIS

Total: 62.8 Million NIS

BDC’s overheard

BDC’s Activities

Consulting Program overheard

Consulting Program overheard

Brief summery of Activities

2013

Activities in 2013

7,000 Entrepreneurs & Businesses received consulting

Approx. 185,000 consulting hours

280 Training Sessions – 4,127 participants

436 ‘Initiating a business’ groups - 7,032 participants

1,600 ‘business plans’ to receive loans were written

46 Conferences were conducted

Breakdown of budget execution by Activity

Consulting 55%

‘Initiating a business’ program

23%

Special Projects

10%

Business Plans

6%

Trainings 4%

Conferences 2%

Entrepreneurs30%

Businesses up to 4 employees47%

5-10 employees12%

10-50 employees9%

50-100 employees2%

117,872 hours were given to entrepreneurs and business

up to 4 employees

68,504 hours were given to

business above 4

employees

Recipients of consulting services by  Number of employees

Total of 23% of business above 4

employees

Total of 77% of entrepreneurs and

business up to 4 employees

Micro-Enterprise :Consulting Subjects

Starting a busi-ness ; 746

Finance ; 960

Marketing and Sales , 1683Organi-zational

; 232

Social Net-

works ; 72

Overall man-

agement ; 562

Business Devel-

opment ; 55

Export/Import ;

21

Other ; 1070

Micro-Enterprise :Recipients of consulting services by subject

Starti

ng a busin

ess

Finan

ce

Mark

eting and Se

lls

Organiza

tional

Socia

l Netw

orks

Overal

l man

agement

Business

Development

Export/

Import

Other

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%

100%

746

247 43892 34

185 8 350

713 1245140 38

377

55

13 719

Number of entrepreneurs Number of Micro-Enterprises

Businesses above 4 employees : Recipients of consulting services by

subject

Overall M

anagement

Marketing and Se

lls

Organizational

Innovation

Industrial d

esign

Export

Environmental

Efficient e

nergy use

Standardiza

tion

Logisti

c & Q

M IT 0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

381 172 148 6 48 3

618 64 28

257152 91 7 4

124

6

29 56 29

12 24 19 3

19

6 18 11

5-10 Employees 10-50 Employees 50-100 Employees

Advisors • 845 approved advisors in SMBA’s database

• 2013: eighteen advisors were recruited in the field of Efficiency energy use and three advisors in the field of industrial design

Starti

ng a busin

ess

Mark

eting and sa

les

Overal

l man

agement

Organiza

tional

Industrial

design

Operational

and lo

gistica

l

Innovation an

d Creativit

y

Export IT

Foreign

Currency

Protec..

.

Environmental

Standard

ization

Efficient e

nergy use

0

200

400

600

800 703

514414 381

253 194 168101 84 39 37 28 18

Number of Advisors in the database

Training

Year Number of Trainings

Number of participants

2012 350 5,200

2013 280 4,127

* Budgeted cost: 2.1 Million NIS

Training Subjects

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10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

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359

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f Tra

inin

g Ac

tiviti

es

935

parti

cipa

nts

393

parti

cipa

nts

277

parti

cipa

nts

663

parti

cipa

nts

412

parti

cipa

nts

General Marketing Finance Networking Managing Food Export/Import

Starting a business

Internet

Conferences

15 on marketing and

sales

8 on entrepreneurship

6 on Business Management

conferences on food, social

networking and Tourism

3 on Women in Business

3 on Assistance

Tools1 on Energy

Efficiency Usage

6 on Financing

Year Total Number conducted

Total Number of Participants

2012 70 9,8002013 46 4,700

* Budgeted cost: 1 Million NIS

Financing channels ‘(Afikey Mimun)’

Loan 2012 2013

Up to 50,000 NIS 400 343

Up to 150,000 NIS 779 848

Up to 350,000 NIS 484 261

Up to 750,000 NIS 252 153

Total 1,915 1,605

Number of businesses requesting loans

* Budgeted cost: 3.2 Million NIS

‘Initiating a business’ program

Year Number of Groups

Number of Participants

2012 560 8,900

2013 436 7,032

• Goal: encouragement entrepreneurship among unemployed

and low income populations

• Budgeted cost: 12.2 Million NIS

• 30% of entrepreneurs have opened a business after attending

the program

Male/Woman (2013)

עסק מימון ייעוץכנסיםהדרכותיוזמים אפיקי0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

42%47%

41%

48%

67%

58%53%

59%

52%

33%

• Similar outcome as in 2012• ‘ .Financing channels’ Program: Most of the participants are men• of women and 46% men participated in one of SMBA’s programs 54%

Male

Woman

Financing Channels Consulting Conferences Training Initiating abusiness

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