The Bohol Economic Development and Investment Promotion Office through the services of the Bohol Business One Stop Shop (BOSS) has facilitated the participation and provision of services of our partner agencies; namely Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Social Security System (SSS), Philippine Health Insurance (PhilHealth), Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG), Securities of Exchange Commission (SEC), Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), Governor’s Office representative, and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) which have been very much supportive in bringing and providing services direct to our clientele.

Bohol BOSS Asenso Negosyo Caravan was launched in 2016 and is in line with the Provincial Government of Bohol vision of bringing services closer to the people. The BOSS Caravan brings the services of the Bohol BOSS partner agencies; namely the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Social Security System(SSS), Philippine Health Insurance (PhilHealth), Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), SEEM – Cluster representative, and Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), in partnership with the target Local Government Unit, to a one-day event that includes the conduct of a Business Forum and Business Registration services for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). This involves a basic orientation on business registration, requirements and membership with mandatory agencies. The caravan also offers business advisory, facilitation of applications with DTI and SEC, and facilitation of Employee/Employer Registration with SSS, Pag-IBIG, and PhilHealth.

The caravan is a showcase of strong partnership and seamless integration of the different national agencies with the Local Government Units and was developed to encourage entrepreneurship and mainstream businesses, especially in the localities where many small-scale enterprises are non-registered officially with our national agencies and even among their respective local government units in their permit and licensing requirements.  It also aims to extend advocacy efforts in the streamlining of business processes and licensing requirements and procedures in the LGUs, as well as for these LGUs to improve their level of competitiveness according to the indicators set in the National Competitiveness Council- Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index. 

OBJECTIVES:

• To encourage entrepreneurship and mainstream business registration among entrepreneurs;
• To bring the business registration services of the Bohol BOSS to the municipalities and reach out to more customer;
• To help strengthen the One Stop Shop services in their localities;
• To strengthen the partnership among service agencies and provide a venue for knowledge sharing and collaboration;
• To enhance the capabilities, skills, and behavior of each desk officer in the performance of their task as business counsellor and monitor/assess feedback directly from customers.

Since its start in 2016, there were already 44 BOSS Negosyo Caravans conducted serving a total of 9,817 clients and out of the 48 LGUs of Bohol, 33 are already beneficiaries of the services the caravan.