What We Do

Technical Expertise
SBP’s high profile in the fields of regulatory best practice and business development – with a special emphasis on small business growth - is built upon our track record in research, evidence-based advocacy, and innovative practical programmes promoting business linkages and local content within supply chains and networks to establish platforms for dialogue. This is reflected in the breadth of our technical expertise on:

• Improving the enabling environment for private sector development and investment
• Facilitating dialogue between the private and public sectors
• Strategic planning
• Policy research, analysis and development
• Regulatory impact analysis and regulatory review
• Evidence-based advocacy for a better business climate
• Value chain analysis and its application to private sector development
• Mobilising resources for enterprise development
• Business linkages
• SME development
• Project management 
• Knowledge management
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Secretariat functions
• Effective dissemination of information

Our Services
Policy Research & Advocacy
SBP’s policy work involves ongoing research, analysis and reporting to support and promote regulatory best practice and evidence-based advocacy for a more enabling environment for business.  Examples of this work include:

• Cutting Red Tape for Business in Africa
• Regulatory compliance cost surveys
• Sector specific studies of the regulatory compliance burden
• Policy Reviews
• Regulatory Impact Analysis

Strategic Partnerships & Operations
SBP’s business development programmes focus on creating linkages between large corporations and small enterprises through a unique networking model.  A primary objective is the development of profitable SMEs as a key contributor to economic growth and job creation.  This stream of work is targeted toward helping existing small business to do better – helping them to build capacity, grow in size, employ more people, add value to the existing local supply chain and thus contribute to more rapid economic growth, greater equity, and more widespread local economic development.

• Private Sector Initiative (Psi)
• Evolving Business Partnership Programme
• Psi Tanzania (www.psitanzania.com)
• Psi Malawi