{"id":8496,"date":"2020-10-27T11:27:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T09:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/?p=8496"},"modified":"2024-10-09T12:21:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T10:21:11","slug":"a-call-to-businesses-to-register-on-buylocal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/a-call-to-businesses-to-register-on-buylocal\/","title":{"rendered":"A CALL TO BUSINESSES TO REGISTER ON #BUYLOCAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

EThekwini Municipality urges all local businesses to register on the City\u2019s #BuyLocal database via the municipal website open from 15 October 2020 until 15 November 2020.<\/p>\n

The Covid_19 pandemic has left the City in great financial strain with businesses across all sectors having suffered tremendous loss and a shortfall of revenue since the national lockdown announced in March. The Municipality\u2019s Economic Development and Planning (ECOD) Cluster is therefore embarking on a \u201cBuy Local, Invest Local\u201d campaign to drive the local economy and ensure that local based businesses are placed at the forefront of economic development, growth and investment.<\/p>\n

In May, the City announced the Economic Recovery Plan (ERP) developed as a short-term response to the challenges brought about by the Covid_19 outbreak. The ERP consists of eleven pillars, of which pillar eight is a specific response to Building Social Coalitions which seeks to rebuild and revitalize economic activity among the City\u2019s most vulnerable through a Buy Local, Invest Local Campaign. The #BuyLocal campaign demonstrates the City\u2019s intent to support local businesses as part of the ERP.<\/p>\n

The campaign calls for all qualifying local businesses fitting within a defined set of criteria to register on the municipal website, www.durban.gov.za<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The final list of businesses on the database will be used to support, promote and market the qualifying entrants for this campaign in line with the various units\/departmental mandates within the ECOD Cluster.<\/p>\n

The objectives for this campaign are as follows:<\/p>\n

1. to inculcate a Buy Local culture at eThekwini<\/p>\n

2. to target businesses with latent or under-exposed \u2018local\u2019 flavour<\/p>\n

3. to target, where possible, local business products \/ services \/ events \/ experiences that have been conceptualised and produced within eThekwini<\/p>\n

4. to better coordinate the promotion and marketing of local business products \/ services \/ events \/ experiences<\/p>\n

5. to raise awareness amongst consumers and in markets for local business products \/ services \/ events \/ experiences<\/p>\n

6. to successfully identify high potential market opportunities for local business products \/ services \/ events \/ experiences<\/p>\n

7. to establish mechanisms for dialogue between local businesses, government and other stakeholders<\/p>\n

8. to ensure the securing and sustaining of local business deals<\/p>\n

9. to ensure that local emerging businesses are included in the buy local promotion and marketing initiatives<\/p>\n

Qualifying Criteria<\/p>\n

(1) There is no obligation by the Municipality to support applicants received in the call for this campaign.<\/p>\n

(2) A Verification Team will be set up to decide to consider applicants for this campaign, only if:<\/p>\n

(a) the product\/service\/event\/experience offered in terms of the campaign is a demonstrably or proven unique innovative concept;<\/p>\n

(b) the product\/service\/event\/experience will be exceptionally beneficial to, or demonstrates exceptional creativity within the City;<\/p>\n

(c) the person \/ business who submits the application is the sole provider \/ exclusively Durban business of the product\/service\/event\/experience offered within eThekwini; and<\/p>\n

(d) the reasons\/motivation for qualification by the applicant for entry into this campaign are found to be sound by the Final Arbiters.<\/p>\n

Enquiries should be sent to: Denny Thaver, Email: denny.thaver@durban.gov.za<\/a>; 031 463 1046.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EThekwini Municipality urges all local businesses to register on the City\u2019s #BuyLocal database via the municipal website open from 15 October 2020 until 15 November 2020. The Covid_19 pandemic has left the City in great financial strain with businesses across all sectors having suffered tremendous loss and a shortfall of revenue since the national lockdown…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":8205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-municipal-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8497,"href":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496\/revisions\/8497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}