The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Strengthening Urban Resilience for Growth with Equity (SURGE) Project is helping its local partners implement important interventions that accelerate economic recovery amid the continuing pandemic. Under the USAID-SURGE Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative (WGDP), the SURGE Project together with its Local Government partners are providing technical assistance for business support to women entrepreneurs and other MSMEs to strengthen business resiliency and adaptability to the rapidly growing digital economy.
The SURGE Project together with City Government of Cagayan de Oro, General Santos City, Tagbilaran City and Globe myBusiness, cordially invite you to an on-line forum in celebration of the International Women’s Day entitled “Pinaypreneurs Rise to the Digital Challenge” which will be held on March 12, 2021 from 2:30 pm- 4:00pm. This forum will bring together women helping women succeed in business.
As part of our ongoing effort to promote women entrepreneurial capacity building in our cities, we highly encourage women-MSMEs and women-managers to attend this event. The proposed program is as follows:
2:00 pm Preliminaries/Introduction and Event Overview
2:30 pm Event Proper: Panel Discussion
(1) Ms. Eileen San Juan, Cagayan de Oro Trade and Investment Promotion
(2) Ms. Cathy Torremocha, Tagbilaran City Administrator
(3) Ms. Adelyn Yucamco, General Santos City Economic Management & Cooperative Development Office
(4) Ms. Willem Ma, CEO and President of Masuki Restaurant
(5) Ms. Roberta Abad-Estacion, Managing Director of Harem, Inc. (Strip and Browhaus)
3:30 pm Open Forum
4:00 pm Closing
The session will be held via Zoom that will require an internet connection. To register and join the session, please access the following link: https://forms.gle/
The city government of Cagayan de Oro with support from USAID/SURGE-WGDP will conduct a Mentoring Session on Business Response & Recovery Planning for MSMEs impacted by the Pandemic. Preparation of Employee Retention Plan shall also be included for loan applicants to government financial institutions that require this for additional loan proceeds.
The session includes a simplified firm-level BRR action planning that can be tailor-fit to your business with examples that mirror your experience. Ideas to recover are also integrated in the form of tips that can make your journey to bounce forward doable.
The mentoring session which starts for a small group, can be extended to one-on-one later to help you really come up with your written recovery plan. We therefore ask you to register by clicking this link https://bit.ly/3k0GGRQ to signify interest and we will directly contact you again for advance materials and preparation.
This service is free. We look forward to working with you as you prepare for recovery.
(PBCI) is very pleased to invite you to a webinar entitled “The New World of Coffee: How the Coffee Industry is Surviving the Pandemic” on October 21, 2020 2:00pm to 4:00pm via Zoom.
The Cagayan de Oro’s GINAMA and General Santos City’s Small and Medium Enterprise Development Council, Inc (SMEDCI), in partnership with Globe MyBusiness and supported by the USAID’s SURGE Project, cordially invite you to a webinar on “E-Commerce: Bridging the Gap in the New Normal.” This Webinar (via Zoom) is scheduled on November 18, 2020, at 9:30 am.
Learn how to optimize your business through major e-commerce platforms like Lazada and Food Panda, and local on-line market portals such as GoPalengke (Puerto Princesa), Dayo Store (GenSan) and Streetby (Cagayan de Oro).
The program flow is as follows:
- E-Commerce: trends, challenges and how to maximize online presence
Speaker: Mr. MJ Panganiban, E-Commerce Head, Globe Telecom - How to get onboard in Lazada
Speaker: Mr. Petrus Carbonell, Head, Business Development Lazada - How Food Panda can help boost marketing and business growth
Speaker: Mr. Ryven Clyde Barrio, POC for Territory Management of Foodpanda Philippines - Open Forum
- Breakout sessions with Local Market Portals: StreetBy (CDO), Dayo Store (Gensan), & GoPalengke (Puerto Princesa)
This webinar is free. For registration or more information, visit this Link: glbe.co/eCommerceMinReg.
We strongly encourage women-MSMEs to attend this seminar.
Great news to all MSMEs in Cagayan de Oro City Philippines!
The City Government of Cagayan de Oro in partnership with USAID Philippines/SURGE Women Global Development and Prosperity initiative and the Ginama Entrepreneurial Development Center for Women would like to invite you to the launch of Bouncing Forward: Cagayan de Oro’s Mentoring Program for MSMEs back-to-back with Loan Application Mentoring for Gov’t Financing Institutions.
This will be on October 15, 2020, Thursday, 1:30 PM via Zoom.
Register now: shorturl.at/psHP2
