Improve your Business Association

Business Associations and Chambers of Commerce [top]
are the most important structures of the private sector in each country because self-help organisations and representations of the local and national business community. But business associations and Chambers often are still weak and need capacity building support. The capacity building support for business associations and chambers is in first of all to enable them to give valuable and regular services to their members. That is why the introduction of our 6-month BDS approach to is one of the priorities of capacity building.

But unfortunately business associations and Chamber often have only very limited financial resources because of modest membership fees that cannot finance a complete service structure. That is why another priority on policy level would be the introduction of compulsory membership systems with regular income.

Ethiopian BDS Network, Addis Ababa 2004
Toolkit: Improve your Business Association
business-association-5-2-04.pdf

This is one of the Ethiopian BDS network publications in collaboration with the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce. The publications are sold in the Ethiopian bookshops and through the BDS Network structure.

Contents: How to deliver services to your members, association management, accounting and funding.

French version:

www.senegal-entreprises.net/appui-aux-associations.htm

Support to Chambers of Commerce [top]

Ethiopian BDS Network, unpublished BDS Newsletter, Addis Ababa 2006 Compulsory membership for sustainable finance of Chambers of Commerce

Bahir Dar Chamber of Commerce, Bahir Dar 2005
Business Development Services of the Bahir Dar Chamber of Commerce bahirdarchamber.ppt

Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce, Addis Ababa 2006
The Ethiopian Business Directory
ethiopian-business-directory.doc The Business Directory has been organized and published in collaboration with the GTZ MSE Development Project

Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce, Addis Ababa 2005
Membership statistics of the 15 City Chambers
chamber-statistics.doc The membership statistics have been carried out in collaboration with the GTZ MSE Development Project

Web sites of the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce www.ethiopianchamber.com The Ethiopian Chamber website has been published in collaboration with the GTZ MSE Development Project and generates income via advertizing and sub-webpages of member enterprises (see advertizers and links to sub-webs on homepage). The Ethiopian Chamber generates income also from hosting and managing of other webpages like www.amhara-development.org of the regional Amhara Government. See also the Directory of Developmenht Programmes under www.ethiopianchamber.com/projects.html

Web site of the Adama Chamber of Commerce www.adamachamber.com The Adama chamber website has been published in collaboration with the GTZ MSE Development Project and generates income via advertizers and sub-webpages of member enterprises (see advertizers and links to sub-webs on homepage)

Fédération Nationale des Artisans du Mali (FNAM) [top]

FNAM, Bamako 1998
Journal des Actions d'Appui réalisées du Service d'Animation
de la Fédération Nationale des Artisans du Mali (FNAM)
mli055.doc 376 KB. Project achievements supporting the national craftsmens' federation of Mali (French)

FNAM, Bamako 1999
Rapport de l'Atelier d'Auto-Evaluation de la FNAM
mli081.doc 60 KB

FNAM, Bamako 1997
Présentation détaillée de la FNAM avec survol statistique
presentation-fnam-mali.doc 1 MB

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