1. GENERAL INFORMATION

Logo of TAC HANOI

(1) Name, address and telephone number of the organization

The Assistance Center for SMEs - North Vietnam (TAC-HANOI)

Agency for Enterprise Development (AED) - Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI)

Address: 10th Floor, LotD25, MPI Building, Ton That Thuyet street, Cau Giay district, Hanoi, Vietnam

Telephone number: (+84) 04 858 793 21; Fax number: (+84) 04 730 556 86

(2) Function and major activities of the organization: (* preferably with an organizational structure chart)

Organizational structure of TAC HANOI

TAC- HANOI functioned to conduct and implement policies and programs on SMEs support in the north of Vietnam since its establishment in 2004. It is mandated including but not limited to:

* Conduct training programs to improve business management capacity for SMEs.

* Provide consultancy and to act as focal point in collecting, providing and disseminating information to SMEs on technology, technique, manufacturing management and other business development services (BDS).

* Carry out and promote business linkage.

* Implement some pilot projects on direct support to SMEs as designated with information dissemination on promotion.

* Incubation for business start-up.

(3) Annual budget of the organization:

Approximately equivalent to 50,000 USD including staff salary and office recurring expenses