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Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA)
From NGOPedia
Small Enterprise Development Agency. This development agency is also an initiative of the government (Department of Trade and Industry) that works to support small enterprises. It is in essence a government agency that carries out the work of the government but is organisationally separated. It has multi-stream funding support and so it is publicly directed (by law) however has funding from the government, private and civil society (especially donor agencies). It is a hybrid institutional form that sits somewhere in between the public and private sectors providing a direct service for the government’s development programme.
SEDA type agencies are on the increase. They provide a service that is developmental, directed by government policies and funded, to a degree by government but have organisational autonomy. This allows for greater flexibility in terms of service provision using tender processes and engaging with private institutions and NGOs, in the kind of Public Private Partnership (PPP) that is advocated by the MDG 8.
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