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The mandate of SMEDAN as contained in the enabling Act can be summarized as follows:

• Stimulating, monitoring and coordinating the development of the MSMEs sub-sector;
• Initiating and articulating policy ideas for small and medium enterprises growth and development;
• Promoting and facilitating development programmes, instruments and support services to accelerate the development and modernization of  MSME operations;
• Serving as vanguard for rural industrialization, poverty reduction, job creation and enhanced livelihoods;
• Linking MSMEs to internal and external sources of finance, appropriate technology, technical skills as well as to large enterprises;
• Promoting and providing access to industrial infrastructures such as layouts, incubators, industrial parks;
• Intermediating between MSMEs and Government [SMEDAN is the voice of the MSMEs];
• Working in contact with other institutions in both public and private sector to create a good enabling environment of business in general, and MSME activities in particular.