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:: Floor Covering
:: Footwear
:: Handmade Paper
:: Home Textile
:: Leather Goods
:: Light Electrical
:: Personal Protective Equipment

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Welcome to the web site of the JOBS project, an innovative development project implemented for the United States Agency for International Development - Bangladesh Mission by the IRIS Center at the University of Maryland.

The objective of the JOBS Project is to support the growth of the private sector by helping to improve the performance of small, medium, and micro enterprises (SMMEs) and the policy environment in which they operate. JOBS�s  specific goal is to enable these enterprises to achieve greater economic growth, thereby expanding employment opportunities, reducing poverty, and improving the standard of living for poor Bangladeshis. To address this objective, JOBS operates in several distinct sectors, including footwear, handmade paper, home textiles, leather goods, light electrical equipment, personal protective equipment, and information technology.

Improving the performance of the SMME sector requires an enabling environment that encourages competitiveness, eases access to financial and non-financial services, allows for expanding markets for products and services, and promotes the use of technology and information. Since 1997, JOBS�s efforts in the policy arena have achieved impressive results. Perhaps the most important of these have been our success in nurturing the Information and Technology Act now nearing enactment and in facilitating access to credit for our SMME clients.

This web site offers a history of our activities and highlights our approach, our areas of support, and the fruits of our efforts. JOBS owes its success to a variety of individuals and organizations too numerous to list here, but prominent among them are its staff and partners, the USAID Mission, many donors, the Ministries of Industry, Science and Information & Communication Technology, and Commerce of the Government of Bangladesh, and, of course, the Bangladeshi enterprises that are our primary clients.

 
 JOBS Assists In
  • Improving business management and marketing skills through training

  • Providing technical assistance to improve existing production and processing technologies or to introduce new technologies

  • Assisting enterprises to develop and present to banks business and marketing plans, and loan applications

  • Shaping an enabling policy environment supportive of private sector growth

  • Assisting SMEs to export their products through trade fairs and other means of market penetration

  • Establishing backward & forward market linkages

  • Incorporating the use of ICT for economic development in areas of E-governance, E-policy, E-commerce and E-HRD

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                         A Project of USAID Bangladesh Implemented by the IRIS Center at University of Maryland

                              Job Opportunities and Business Support (JOBS)
                                Road No. 6A, Plot No. 3 , Block No. J, Baridhara, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
                 Phone: 880-2-9885141, 880-2-9895218, 880-2-8826154, 880-2-8829037  Fax: 880-2-8826154 

                              Email: info@jobsiris.dhaka-bd.net. Last Update: 23 September, 2008.