Free Online Business Mentoring in C. Visayas to Launch

As online businesses continue to grow amid quarantine protocols brought about by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), an online business mentorship program will be launched by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), in partnership with the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship-Go Negosyo, and the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The government agency has launched 2 preceding KMME online programs since the pandemic started. For the third KMME, DTI will be looking for 48 participants in the Central Visayas Region.

DTI-Cebu said that the KMME will feature modules that will let businesses thrive, despite challenges.

“KMME online will feature mentorship modules to be used to propel micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) to survive and thrive in spite of the unprecedented setbacks that now confront businesses of all types and sizes,” DTI-Cebu said.

The modules will cover the following:

• Entrepreneurial mind-setting and values formation
• Marketing mindset
• Business model canvas
• Operations management
• Digitalization
• Supply and value chain management
• Accounting and finance for small business
• Human resource management
• Market-driven innovation
• Good governance and ethics
• Government services, and
• Business improvement plan presentation, among others.

Interested applicants for the mentorship program will need to submit their DTI or Securities and Exchange Commission or Cooperative Development Authority certificate, latest business permit and Bureau of Internal Revenue certificate of registration.

The deadline for applications is March 19, 2021.

Interested applicants may register by going to this link: https://tinyurl.com/CEBUKMME-MMEONLINEBATCH3 and email their requirements to r07Cebu-SDD@dti.gov.ph and ClaireClarezEsparcia@dti.gov.ph. (GFB)