Perez Ochieng, CEO/Director of Commercialization
At SACOMA, we have unwaveringly displayed a passion for providing quality Information Advice and Guidance (IAG), Training of the workforce, business development and support services by investing in people, places and partnership. Since 1998, the SACOMA ambition has been to pursue excellence and deliver opportunities for all.
We have our fingers on the pulse of our communities, ready to help transform how they learn, how their businesses operate, how they find jobs and how they do them, how they access public services and how they develop creativity to make the most of time and effectively contribute to the economy in the UK, EU and in Africa. We express our values by bringing businesses, social enterprises, voluntary organizations, community groups, decision makers, entrepreneurs and policy makers together to build a thriving, sustainable economy that supports everyone in the community.
We provide IAG, Accredited NVQ Training, Business Skills, IT Skills, Job brokerage, job creation, business start up and support to Small to Medium enterprise (SMEs). We offer a wide range of development and support services to individuals (employed and unemployed) and businesses, both in the private and voluntary sectors. In delivering our prgrammes.
We have a clear commitment to diversity and achieving a balanced social mix for the youth and adults and partnership with key stakeholder like the DWP, job Centre, Enterprise Agencies. Our success is in part due to our approach to embedding IAG and skills development throughout the programme combined with 1-2-1 personal support and continuing counseling, mentoring, coaching and inspiration.
Train to Gain courses and Microsoft IT Academy courses are is designed to help businesses and individuals get the training they need to succeed or become indispensable. We help leaders improve their productivity and competitiveness by ensuring they have the right skills to do the best job and turning motivated employees into office superstars. Employees certified in Office 2007 applications are able to effectively use these powerful applications to complete tasks and projects more efficiently: Turning business start ups into high growth businesses. Producing goods and services based on key enabling technologies.
SACOMA as a Diaspora led organization that has been at the forefront of economic development and wealth creation of people from the Sub-Saharan Africa communities living in the UK and Abroad. We provide Skills and business development services, loans, mutual aids funds to help the SME led by these communities to thrive and become sustainable for job creation. Our microfinance loan funds and enterprise skills are changing lives for poor households in East Africa. Our social enterprise business model is helping mobilize the Diaspora contributions, human and financial capital towards the development of their countries and communities of origin.
SACOMA head office is in London UK with regional offices in Kenya and Tanzania. The company has won several awards for excellence in service provisions and business support for African communities and recently scooped the GWIIN Award for capacity building the BAME community in enterprise development. Other awards in include LSC small company of the year.
Winner: Champions of Learning Awards 2004, Employer of the year (Small Business), Learning and Skills Council. Winner: Moving forward with people awards 2002- Learning and Skills Council. Winner: Capacity building for SMEs, British Female Innovators and Inventors Awards 2009 International. Highly Commended, Charity Awards 2003for Excellence in the Voluntary and Community sector
Together with our associated partners in the UK and Africa both in the private, public and voluntary sectors, we have track record of working with this community for over 12 years. And have been at the forefront of many regeneration initiatives in the UK as well as International Development initiatives of poverty reduction, Trade and investment. In England, Sacoma also works with Government Departments and NGOs to deliver a range of advisory and social support services. In Kenya, Sacoma has made significant progress encouraging entrepreneurship; especially among the many young men and women who have tremendous potential but lack access to resources. See www.sacomacfe.com for details.
The Reporter magazine showcases, complements and builds on other activities taking place through ensuring that we work with a wide range of stakeholders, communicating information and engaging potential future stakeholders (i.e. advertisers, opinion formers, media groups, general readers).
See www.The-Reporter.com for more details
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Organisations/Entities which have strategic partnership with SACOMA include Lonodn Development Agency (LDA), Learning and Skills Council (LSC); Job Centre Plus (JCP); Business Link in London, Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA); Local Labour Schemes in the 5 Olympic London Boroughs, Job Nets; London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG); Greater London Authority (GLA), Sector Skills Council, funding Skills Council (FSA) Skills and other Sector Skills Councils, Central Government, CSP (City Strategy Pathfinders) and other Regional Development Agencies
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