Curriculum & Training
Certified Business Developer Service Providers
We help people in training for the certification and accreditation of Business Development Service Providers BDSP's
From Inception , the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria SMEDAN has designed the BDSP training curriculum for the certification and accreditation of Business Development Service Providers BDSPs, such that its able to.
In November of 2018, SMEDAN signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Enterprise Development Center (PAN Atlantic University) Lagos and the Kaduna Business School. This agreement gave the two institutions the responsibility of coordinating and executing the institutionalization process of the Business Development Service Providers (BDSPs) Certification and Accreditation program in Nigeria.
In September 2021, SMEDAN awarded Practice Licenses to 150 qualified Business Development Service Providers (BDSPs), who had successfully gone through a rigorous accreditation process which included training, examination, screening, and presentation of skills among others.
This practice license is a mark of standard and quality enabling practitioners to professionally deliver BDSP services in Nigeria.
address the identified challenges facing the MSME sub-sector.As was indicated in the curriculum validation workshop in Abuja on 29th November 2018, the Federal Government through the Minister of Trade and Investment ; believes that its critical to support small businesses as drivers for increasing productivity, creating jobs, and boosting the economy as well as ensuring global best practices in the development of MSMEs sector to drive sustainable growth in the country.
