DTI ZamboSur turns-over P2.8M SSF to seven beneficiaries

• Source:http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/1351460967897/dti-zambosur-turns-over-p2-8m-ssf-to-seven-beneficiaries
• Tuesday, April 19, 2016

By Claro A. Lanipa (ALT/CAL/PIA9-Zamboanga del Sur)

PAGADIAN CITY, April 19 (PIA) – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Zamboanga del Sur Provincial Office simultaneously turned-over the Shared Service Facility (SSF) amounting to P2.8 million to seven co-operators/associations in the province recently at the Liga City Convention Center.

DTI Provincial Director Maria Socorro Malate-Atay said,“in order to save time and effort, we decided to hold a joint launching, turn-over, signing of Memorandum of Agreement and Usufruct Agreement ceremony in one venue.”

“In the past, we usually turnover such facilities one at a time and in areas where the equipment will be used or where the cooperators are situated,” Director Atay explained.

The following recipient cooperators/associations of the SSF are as follows: the local government unit of PagadianCity- meat fabrication equipment; LGU Dumingag and Zamboanga del Sur Best Producers Association – food processing equipment; LGU Midsalip, Sominot Federation of WEM-RIC,Women-Widow Apostolate of Pagadian City Multi-Purpose Cooperative and Youth Development Association (Young Muslim Women of Labangan) were given sewing machines.

Meanwhile, Assistant Regional Director Engr. Noel R. Bazan said that the SSF projectis aimed to address the gaps and bottlenecks in the value chain of priority industry clusters such as the absence or lack of needed facility, cost of services is not affordable and inadequate technical and administrative services that will promote and facilitate the growth of MSMEs.

‘The SSF are given to LGUs, NGOs and associations so that this facility can be shared to its members and even to non-members depending on the manual of operations,”Bazan emphasized.

He also urged the cooperators to allocate a certain amount for maintenance cost and asked them take good care of the equipment.

Under the Usufruct agreement, these facilities shall be given to co-operators for their existing venture and after two years of successful operation, these will be turned-over to them at no cost, according to Bazan.

SSF is a major component of the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Development (MSMED) program of DTI which aims to improve the competitiveness of MSMEs by providing them with machinery, equipment, tools, system, skills and knowledge under a shared system.