Müge AKPINAR DEMİRTEMEL, SME Expert, KOSGEB, Turkey, 11 May 2016, Regional conference: Investment and inclusive growth in the midst of crisis, Beirut

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Promoting Entrepreneurship and SMEs
for inclusion as KOSGEB
 Lebanon/Beirut, May 2016

2. Key points;
 What are KOSGEB’s lessons implementing SME
programmes in Turkey that could be shared with
governments in MENA?
 What are KOSGEB’s lessons implementing SME
programmes in Turkey that could be shared with
governments in MENA?
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3. Refugees in Turkey
 Number in Turkey; approximately 2.800.000
 Number in Europe; approximately 815.000
Activies;
 Temporary identification
 Adaptation
 Projects
 Practical Entrepreneurship Trainings for refugees
 Vocational Trainins for refugees
 Start-up Capital Support

4. Irregular migration by years
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5. Temporary protected Syrian Refugees
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6. Problems occur when people are
not included to the economical contribution and
when they are not adapted.
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7. Migration Management Directorate
 Turkey is not only on outbound route which connects
the east and west, but also a target country recently.
 According to the needs of labour planning, human
rights in Turkey, defining politics through refugees, a
couple of regulations started to be applied, which the
most important one is Law on Foreigners and
International Protection.
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8. Workshops;
 Communication with refugees and empathy-11 April
2016
 Adaptation strategy workshop for refugees and
displaced people-30 April 2014
 Migration management and adaptation workshop-12
December 2013
 …..
To sustain their living and mintain their skills.
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9. Projects;
 Acceptance and removal centre-EU IPA
 Registration completing, call centre, e-training-EU IPA
 Build up community centres-EU IPA
 Occupational ability development-SEQUA (Planning)
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10. Draft Protocol for Refugees
 SEQUA
 Ministry of National Education
 Ministry of Labour and Social Security of the Republic
of Turkey
 Yunus Emre Institute
 Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology
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11. Main problems to be an entrepreneur
or a personnel for refugees,
 Language problem,
 Adaptation,
 Unfamiliar to formal process
 and to market.
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12. The only public agency founded to provide
supports to SMEs.
In 2009, with a legal arrangement, as well as
manufacturing sectors, service and trade sectors
were included to the KOSGEB target group.
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KOSGEB
(Small and Medium Enterprises
Development Organization)

13. KOSGEB
 Access to finance is one of the major priority areas for SME
policies.
 A number of targeted investment loan interest support
programmes were introduced by KOSGEB.
 KOSGEB pays the loan interests of SMEs to bank.
 More than 200 000 SMEs have benefited from the
KOSGEB’s credit interest support programmes.
 EUR 4,48 billion credit volume in the years 2003-14.
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Main issues when supporting;
Effective benefiting from supports,
Monitoring,
Revising,
Enforcement,
Support, not give.

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KOSGEB’s SUPPORTS
SUPPORT
PROGRAMMES
CREDIT
INTEREST
SUPPORT
KOSGEB
LABORATORY
SERVICES

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KOSGEB’s SUPPORTS
Practical Entrepreneurship Training
Start-Up Capital Support
Business Incubator
Business Development
R&D Support
Cooperation, Collaboration

17. THANK YOU
Müge AKPINAR DEMİRTEMEL
SME Expert
Muge.akpinar@kosgeb.gov.tr
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