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First Negosyo Center in ARMM launched in Marawi City




The development of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) gets a boost after the provincial government of Lanao del Sur and the Department of  Trade and Industry (DTI) launched the first negosyo center in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

The center is located at the TLDC Building in Lanao Peoples' Park, Barangay Datu Saber, this city.

Senator Paolo Benigno ‘’Bam’’ Aquino IV, DTI-ARMM Secretary Anwar Malang, Provincial Vice Governor Mamintal Adiong Jr, Philippine Army 1st Infantry Division Commander BGen. Rolando Joselito Bautista, Mindanao State University (MSU) President Habib Macaayong, and Negosyo Center Manager Jasnia Shiekrashid led the opening of the center on May 19.

 


Vice Governor Adiong said the Negosyo Center will strengthen the local economy and pave the way for Meranao products to be included in the national market.

"We are very happy that Lanao del Sur is among the recipients of this program. The Negosyo Center provides us a venue to showcase Meranao products and promote our MSMES not just in the neighboring towns but also at the national market," he further said.

Secretary Malang said entrepreneurs who want to know how to start up their businesses, gain access to financing opportunities, and learn financial documentation and bookkeeping can visit the Negosyo Center and ask assistance from its trained counselors and consultants.

The establishment of Negosyo Center is anchored on Republic Act No. 10644 or the Go Negosyo Act, authored by Senator Bam Aquino and signed into law by President Benigno Aquino III on July 15, 2014.

Negosyo Centers are responsible for promoting ease of doing business and facilitating MSMEs access to services like business name registration, business advisory services, and business information and advocacy, product development, trade promotion, financing facilitation and investment promotion.

 


Senator Aquino said that the Go Negosyo Act has established 508 Negosyo Center and supported more than 800,000 entrepreneurs in the last three years.

Aquino hopes that the Negosyo Center will become a centerpiece for volunteerism, convergence, and cooperation to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses and provide more job opportunities in the locality.

Our staff will make sure that every Negosyo Center is functioning and providing the right services for our countrymen who are in business, he further said. (APB/PIA-10)

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