São Francisco de Itabapoana and Sebrae Join Forces to Boost Local Business Environment
São Francisco de Itabapoana partners with Sebrae to gather business data and organize seminars aimed at improving conditions for small entrepreneurs.
- • Second meeting of the Cidades Empreendedoras program held in São Francisco de Itabapoana.
- • Partnership between the city hall and Sebrae-RJ focused on improving the business environment.
- • Data collection underway for the Business Environment Index to guide future actions.
- • Four seminars planned addressing fiscal management, expense sanitation, revenue growth, and entrepreneurship education.
Key details
On January 14, São Francisco de Itabapoana held the second meeting of the Cidades Empreendedoras program, a collaboration between the city hall and Sebrae-RJ aimed at improving the local business environment. This meeting, attended by municipal secretaries, representatives of several departments including Agriculture, Development, Planning, and Education, as well as Sebrae's technical team, focused on collecting data to establish the Business Environment Index, a vital metric for directing future initiatives.
Sebrae public policy consultant Celso Nunes de Oliveira emphasized the need to understand the current business landscape to implement targeted measures that support small and micro-entrepreneurs while fostering overall local economic development. Four seminars are planned to facilitate this: Fiscal Management and Austerity (February 26), Expense Sanitation (March 4), Revenue Increment (March 30), and a session on Education, Entrepreneurship, and Results, which is yet to be scheduled.
Guilherme Reche, Sebrae's regional coordinator for Northern Fluminense, highlighted the importance of these seminars in enhancing municipal processes, contributing critical insights for improvement. Municipal Secretary of Work and Human Development, Claudineia Rodrigues, lauded Sebrae's crucial role in transforming the economic environment, noting that the program opens opportunities to build local capacity and implement effective reforms.
This article was synthesized and translated from native language sources to provide English-speaking readers with local perspectives.
