and provide general business information on raw materials, machinery/equipment, etc. The Business Clinics at the Head Office Building serve as diagnostic, treatment and counseling centre for ailing businesses. The clinics also serve as incubation centre for business ideas, and are being extended to the local government areas. Train-the-Trainers’ Programme :In collaboration with the International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Career Development [ICECD], Ahmadabad, India, SMEDAN trained over 70 representative of SME-focused Non-Governmental Organizations [NGOs] in Enterprise Development Services, so that they can directly impact on their members. Before the training in Nigeria, two batches of SMEDAN staff and some BDSPs had been trained in India. Two diets of the training were concluded in 2009- 2010 where over 200 trainees benefited. Entrepreneurship Development Activities: The transformation agenda of the present Administration works effectively with SMEDAN to provide information, sensitize the people and deliver entrepreneurship/vocational training to several Nigerians. These services have enabled Nigerians such as, members of the National Youths Service Corps, women, youths etc, to start new businesses as well as improve on their existing businesses. The statistics are as follows: Table: Entrepreneurship Development Activities ACTIVITY 2009 2010 Information Provi- 1,704 802 sion Sensitization 9,887 11,117 Capacity Building 5,192 14,062 (EDP) Access to Finance 50 110 Total 11,641 26,091 Source: SMEDAN Report to NEPAD TOTAL 2506 21,004 19,254 160 42,924 Other areas in which major strides have been recorded in the development of MSMEs are: Facilitating Access of MSMEs to Critical Resources through the Establishment of Industrial Parks under Public Private Partnership agreements. 71