EMPRETEC is the integrated capacity-building programme of the united D (UNCTAD) which aims at promoting the creation of sustainable SMEs. Support structures to help promising entrepreneurs build innovative and internationally competitive SMEs.

The acronym EMPRETEC is derived from empresas technologicas , a Spanish phrase which translates as technology-based enterprises. Since EMPRETEC's inception in 1988, the programmes has become operational in more than twenty-five (25) countries, assisting close to 60,000 entrepreneurs through local market driven Business Support Centres. Project implementation, which includes five stages, is tailored to the reality of each country and ranges from the creation of the local infrastructure (establishment of the office) to the execution of the training programmes respectively.

The services provided include entrepreneurial training, the core focus EMPRETEC Guyana, and post training support in the form of the following business development services.

• Business Diagnosis and Health Checks
• Accounting and Bookkeeping Services
• Technical assistance in the preparation of Business Plans
• Business Counselling
• Assistance in sourcing credit
• Assistance in identifying sub-contracting opportunities between SMEs and large local companies and,
• Promoting Linkages between local SMEs and foreign companies
• Export development