{"id":93636,"date":"2013-05-27T13:27:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T17:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=93636"},"modified":"2013-05-27T13:29:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T17:29:30","slug":"o-e-c-s-edu-to-provide-support-to-non-traditional-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/o-e-c-s-edu-to-provide-support-to-non-traditional-sectors\/","title":{"rendered":"O.E.C.S EDU to provide support to non- traditional sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_93646\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93646\" style=\"width: 128px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-93646\" alt=\"Vincent Philbert\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Vincent-Philbert.jpg\" width=\"128\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Vincent-Philbert.jpg 128w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Vincent-Philbert-112x150.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vincent Philbert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The current work program of the EDU involves the implementation of activities under the 10th EDF Economic Integration and Trade of the OECS region and is expected to provide support to firms and cluster groupings in a wide range of trade and economic integration matters over the next five years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The program is part of the regional strategy to further regional cooperation and deepen the process of integration of the OECS Economic Union.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Head of O.E.C.S EDU, Vincent Philbert, told the Government Information Service (GIS) recently that the unit is looking to \u00a0embrace more creative niche areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn some respects we are doing things a little differently, for instance it\u2019s the first time we are doing a Tourism component and we are hoping to have some support for the Tourism sector which has not been a feature of the past\u201d remarked Philbert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are trying to see if we can do some work in the agricultural sector to include agricultural enterprises, and non-traditional agriculture. Historically we have done agri- business work but this time around we are trying to do something in the agricultural sector, such as organic agriculture and other things that are more creative than just the regular agriculture of the past,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The O.E.C.S\/ EDU recently met with stakeholders at the Fort Young Hotel to discuss its work program for the next year 2013-2014.\u00a0Philbert added that the unit is poised to work with export ready enterprises.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe work with enterprises that we consider to be either export ready or exporting. We have a structure by which we categorize them, we assess their ability to do things in a short time to become exporting entities in both services and products\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">He said the unit is interested in attracting enterprises are serious about doing business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cImportantly we are looking for winners, we are looking for enterprises that have potential to do things, innovative,\u00a0young people new ideas, creativity is important for us in addition to talking about exporting\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Philbert confirmed that Dominica is expected to benefit from funding from the Banana Accompanying Measures (BAM) to assist enterprises in getting their projects off the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe good news for Dominica is that we have a huge budget in the form of the BAM- the Banana Accompanying Measures. What we can do is help enterprises who want to access the BAM,\u201d he confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to brainstorm as to how we can work to help the BAM receive viable project ideas, how we can help the BAM not have to start from scratch with every single business project that they have to consider. Some of them are clients of ours so we can bring our information to the BAM to support enterprises who want to go into the BAM support\u201d Philbert concluded.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The recent stakeholder meeting at the Fort Young Hotel brought together major players and cluster groupings in Dominica who are currently working with the Export Development Unit in the delivery of its various services.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The current work program of the EDU involves the implementation of activities under the 10th EDF Economic Integration and Trade of the OECS region and is expected to provide support to firms and cluster groupings in a wide range of&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":93646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,36,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-economy-development","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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