Our mission is to develop from a small scope of key services geared to the micro and small enterprises on Bonaire towards a sustainable center:

CKB is to adhere to the following purposes:

• To provide essential business skills, training, and support services to micro- and small business entrepreneurs (MSEs) on a continuing basis;
• Upgrade the quality of the MSEs support organizations to provide business advisory and training services of the supporting organizations;
• Promote an improved MSEs business policy framework with the Island Government.

Through SESNA (Small Enterprise Stimulation Netherlands Antilles) and the assistance of the SESNA Advisers, CKB has become a professional business advisory and training institution, which matches the quality of services of an international business management consultants firm. CKB has a wide network of trained SESNA business advisors and trainers and an excellent reputation with the banks built on the basis of trust, expertise and mutual understanding.

CKB's primary target group is the micro and small enterprises as well as “starters.” CKB has grown into a well-established and reputable unit with highly skilled management and staff. CKB is now also in the position to be engaged in other projects such as Bonaire's 1st Investment Conference.

The management of the CKB aims to provide business advisory services to 331 MSE clients for a period of five years. Further CKB targets to provide services to 150 MSE clients via part-time on free-lance basis related business advisers and to have 1010 MSE’s trained through business trainers in 202 groups of 5 MSE’s in 5 years. In addition, the management of CKB aims at a target of 300 jobs to be preserved and 60 additional jobs to be created in MSE’s in 5 years time. The total investment and financial budget of the CKB was Nafls. 985,140.

The Government has allocated Nafls. 150,000 per annum for a period of five years, the excess was due to the pre-operating costs awaiting SESNA and the higher operating costs than planned. The deficit of the CKB operations was expected to be less than the funds allocated by the government, which was the result of revenues from EDF and MSE cost sharing in payment for fees business advisory and training provided by CKB minus total operating costs. The detailed operational and investment costs are illustrated in Annex 3. Management proposed to reserve this surplus as a provision on a separate account of CKB for possible employment at a later stage.

Taking into consideration the mission of the CKB we have to conclude that it cannot be expected that the CKB will operate on a financially sustainable basis. The main target is to assist the MSE’s to develop into healthy businesses, which can contribute to the overall economic development of Bonaire.

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