Corporate Members

Partner Organizations and Corporate Members of the SIYB Association

Over the last 20 years, the SIYB program was able to build partnerships with 70 business support service organizations (as SIYB Partner Organizations) that cover all districts in Sri Lanka and represent government institutions, departments, authorities, development agencies, INGOs, NGOs, private sector companies as well as civil society organizations. Some of the partner organizations are national organizations with a well-structured service delivery mechanism throughout the country. Other Partner Organizations are based in various provinces and districts, or they have outreach to many districts in the country. Besides, more than 250 SIYB Certified Trainers have been employed directly by these partner organizations that deliver SIYB training to micro and small entrepreneurs. Meanwhile, 30 of them have obtained Corporate Membership at the SIYB Association and they are listed below:

Government Organizations

• Department of Industrial Development and Enterprise Promotion - CP
• Department of Manpower and Employment
• Industrial Development Board of Ceylon
• Industrial Services Bureau
• National Apprenticeship and Industrial Training Authority
• National Institute of Cooperative Development
• Rural Development Training and Research Institute
• Small Enterprise Development Division
• Vocational Training Authority of Sri Lanka

Private Sector Organizations

• Berendina Micro Investments Company Ltd
• Business Consultancy Services (Pvt) Ltd
• Business Creations (Gte) Ltd
• Business Development Centre
• Community Business and Technology Developers (Gte) Ltd
• Development Facilitators (Pvt) Ltd
• GRIP (Guarantee) Ltd.
• North East Socio-Economic Developers
• PASS Research and Consultancy (Pvt) Ltd
• Sarvodaya Economic Enterprise Development Services (Gte) Ltd
• Sri Lanka Business Development Center
• T & D Management Consultants (Pvt) Ltd
• Y Gro (Pvt) Ltd
• A.N.J. Consultants (Pvt) Ltd

Non-Governmental Organizations

• Cathy Rich Memorial Food Processing Center
• Future in Our Hand Development Foundation
• Institute for Development of Community Strengths
• Institute of Nursery Studies and Gender Development
• Social Welfare Organization
• South Asia Partnership Sri Lanka
• Women's Development Foundation
• World Vision Lanka