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Small amd Medium Enterprises

Initiatives

On November 19, 1996, eleven large companies in Guadalajara, Mexico signed a voluntary agreement with Mexico's Secretaría de Medio Ambiente, Recursos Naturales y Pesca (Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Fisheries, SEMARNAP) to mentor small suppliers in implementing environmental management systems (EMSs). Each large company invited one to three of its small suppliers to participate in the Guadalajara Environmental Management Pilot (GEMP), a two-year project to learn about and implement EMSs. The large companies and the World Bank provided these small and medium enterprises (SMEs) funding for EMS training and implementation support, which a team of international and local consultants delivered.

Support organisations

• ADMIC Nacional: is a non-profit, Non-governmental organization, with the purpose of trying to solve the problem of unemployment, increase family incomes, promote growth of the microenterprise sector through counseling, training, credit, integration and development.
• Fundación Los Emprendedores : is a Non-governmental organization which works in poor areas with productive activities and microenterprises. 95% is in the informal economy.
• Fundación Mexicana para el Desarrollo Rural
• Promoción y Desarrollo de Empresas de Productores de Bajos Ingresos is an institution dedicated to rural development, started in 1963. Its a network of 35 foundations in 22 states in Mexico. They have supported 1,500 projects integrating approximately 20,000 farmers.
• Nacional Financiera Insurgentes
• Desarrollo Empresarial: The institution acts as a bank supporting industrial enterprises through financing, training and technical assistance. Through the PRODEM it operates the Desarrollo Empresarial program whose objective is to promote training and technical assistance to respond to the specific needs of the micro, small, and medium enterprises.
• Nacional Financiera - (PRODEM) Insurgentes
• Dirección de Promoción y Desarrollo Empresarial The institution is a government agency which acts as a bank fostering support for the primarily industrial enterprises through financing, training, and technical assistance.
• Universidad Anáhuac del Sur
• The Regional Microfinance Training and Resource Center It is a non- governmental organization which aims to provide service to the enterprises through an interdisciplinary team of specialists that manage with two objectives: working with planning objectives and curricular design adjusting with consolidation and development plans.
• Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua Gerneal Negrete
• Centro de Investigación del Desarrollo Económico y Tecnológico The Center is a research unit specializing in international economic issues as well as technology development. Its aim is to develop a spirit of research and creativity that promotes action and proposes alternative solutions pertinent to the needs of the society.

Law & SMEs

Consumer's protection law permits SMEs the use of personal data exclusively for marketing and credit investigation purposes.

Resources

• The Guadalajara Environmental Management Pilot: Mexico Department and the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Sector Management Unit, Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office, Report No. 18071-ME, September 8, 1998
• Mexican Entrepreneurial Information System: Maintained by Ministry of Trade and Industrial Development, it is designed to help Mexican SMEs to do business easily by providing a supply-demand matchmaking directory. It provides information on Mexican companies, their products and services according to the supply-demand matchmaking system, and promotion programs for Mexican companies