About Us
SMEGA is a social Enterprise development organization established to advance the general growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and Start-ups, started in 2013. We believe by nurturing & supporting enterprises and entrepreneurs, recognizing and rewarding their ongoing efforts as well as availing interventions to improve their capacities with the right systems and structures, they can build and achieve business success, where all stakeholders and the continent of Africa will realize sustainable economic growth.
We strive for propelling SMEs lead economy in the areas where we operate, working together with Start-ups, SMEs, Young entrepreneurs, Supporters and Partners.
Our Purpose
We engage SMEs, Entrepreneurs and Partners and other stakeholders to:
- Empower, create and nurture a business network of entrepreneurs to stimulate business profitability among SMEs and drive national economic growth.
- Drive change in practice by providing the needed expertise to shape SMEs and position them to attract the right investment and partnership necessary for growth.
- Grow an award scheme that recognizes and rewards innovation and hard work to foster a vibrant positive competitive commerce environment and drives overall quality and growth.
- Encourage quality standards in local product content and packaging which will elevate “Made-in-Africa” products to globally acceptable standards for existing and emerging markets.
- Encourage Corporate Governance, succession planning and other long-term sustainability practices in our SMEs to achieving the Global.
- Start your entrepreneurship journey with Us
- Startup
- Grow productively into a Micro Enterprises
- Step Up
- Enhance your capacity and capabilities
- Advance
Our Strategy and Ambition
We see clear links between fulfilling women’s entrepreneurship empowerment and gender equality in building a robust economy to ending poverty in Africa. Working with women lead SME businesses and entrepreneurs with a clear ambition to transform their small business into thriving enterprises.
We work towards supporting policies and programmes that promotes integration and the management of diversity by providing the platform to connect young entrepreneurs, SMEs, and innovative initiatives and ideas with knowledge sharing resources for Africa’s development.
OUR Motivation
We believe as economies around the world expand in a global village, we must work together with stakeholders to understand new trends of doing business. To succeed as individual countries and Africa as a continent, whose economy is driven largely by SME initiatives, we believe a sharp focus should be directed towards improving the growth opportunities of our SMEs both in local and foreign markets.
As an organization, we seek therefore to facilitate processes that will result in our SME’s being able to seek, grasp and harness local and global opportunities to grow and expand their operations and profitability.
Vision
Our vision is to be a motivating pivot that drives business growth for SMEs in Africa through relevant activities.
Mission
Our mission is to empower SME businesses through knowledge sharing, business linkages, advocacy, and stakeholders’ engagement.
Values
Our values are decisive and include the following:
- Passion – the driver of all our initiatives.
- Devotion – an unwavering commitment to the objectives that drive us.
- Quality – promoting an enduring pride of total reassurance of consumer confidence in our products and service delivery standards.
- Leadership – to simply break barriers, disrupt mediocre status quo and drive innovative pursuits.
- Integrity – jealously guard our values against corruptible compromises at all cost.
- Collaboration – to actively pursue and promote stakeholders’ engagement and involvement in the quest to achieve a formidable SME sector.
- Accountability – as agents of change, we will always remain accountable to all stakeholders.