The DTI has established several institutions mandated to deliver a wide range of key services, including both financial and non-financial support services, to small enterprises. Government institutions that offer support to SMMEs include the following:
- Small Enterprise Development Agency (seda)
- South African Micro-Finance Apex Fund (Samaf)
- Khula Enterprise Finance Limited (Khula)
- National Empowerment Fund (NEF)
- Industrial Development Corporation (IDC)
- National Youth Development Agency (NYDA)
- Land Bank;
- Micro Agricultural Financial Institute of SA (Mafisa); and
- Provincial agencies
- Free State Development Corporation
- Gauteng Enterprise Propeller | Gauteng Economic Development Agency
- Ithala Development Finance Corporation | Trade and Investment KZN
- Limpopo Business Support Agency | Trade & Investment Limpopo
- Limpopo Economic Development Enterprise
- Mpumalanga Economic Growth Agency
- Western Cape Department of Economic Development and Tourism
- Invest North West | Northern Cape Economic Development Agency