Ethiopian Business
Development Services (BDS) Network
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Addis Ababa
BDS - Newsletter
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No. 2 - June 2005
What are Business Development Services (BDS) ?
BDS are services such as information and assistance for taxation, marketing, business planning, equipment supply, technical and entrepreneurship training and export/import promotion provided by private and public service providers.
Most of the Ethiopian BDS providers and BDS facilitating agencies have joined the Ethiopian BDS Network for further experience exchange and collaboration. Some of the members are: Federal and Regional Micro and Small Enterprises Development Agencies (FEMSEDA and REMSEDAs), Ethiopian Chambers of Commerce, Progynist and Propride (NGOs), MEDF (network of 20 NGOs), MSE Development Project, UNIDO, ILO, EU and private BDS providers such as consultants for business management. If you would like to join the network or share your experiences on MSE development, contact mse-pro@ethionet.et.
Contact:
Ethiopian BDS Network Meeting, June
The representatives of the 500 Ethiopian BDS Facilitators will meet on Friday, June 3, 2005 at the Imperial Hotel in order to discuss the results and experiences of the 4th six-month BDS cycle from 1/2005-6/2005 and to prepare the 5th six-month BDS cycle starting in 7/ 2005 which will focus on food, textile, leather and construction sub-sectors.
The 6th BDS Network meeting will take place at the Imperial Hotel on Friday/Saturday, June 10/11, 2005. Participants are the managers of the BDS network member organisations such as private and public business development providers, projects and institutions, national NGOs and international Donors. The issues to be discussed are marketing and technological support to MSEs, link between MSE development and technical and vocational training, the role of clusters in MSE development. There will be displays by some network members on the services they provide to MSEs. The workshop is co-organized with the EU - MSE Development Project.
Interested people who want to get the proceedings of the network meeting, please contact Mr. Yared, Tel. 62.61.35, mse-pro@ethionet.et
Both documents
are for download on:
Toolkit on how to run Business Development Services (BDS)
Contents: Definition of BDS; Introduction on how to make a demand-oriented needs assessment; Six-month action planning for BDS implementation; How to link to different service providers; 10 success stories with micro and small enterprises; Program of BDS training workshop for BDS facilitators; How to implement an action-oriented BDS intervention.
Discussion Paper criticizing the "Full Commercial BDS Approach"
This discussion paper based on our mixed BDS approach of collaboration of public and private, commercial BDS providers and facilitating agencies criticizes the "full commercial BDS approach" focussing exclusively on commercial BDS providers with fully paid services for BDS market development.
In the first part of the discussion paper also the "voucher scheme" approach that means to introduce a subsidy system for business development services, is critisized.
The publications are available for download on www.bds-ethiopia.net/documents.html
see
www.bds-ethiopia.net/textile
/food, /leather, /construction
Sector-specific information is now available on www.bds-ethiopia.net
More sector-specific information on the textile, leather, food and construction sectors are now available on www.bds-ethiopia.net/textile , /leather, /food, /construction.
Contents: Sector overviews; Companies and products; Training centers; Export markets; Supply markets; Trade Fairs and Exhibitions. Sector studies and handbooks on value chains are available for download on www.bds-ethiopia.net/sector-library
Ethiopian Companies sponsoring
and advertising
on the Ethiopian Chamber Webpage
Ethiopian Airlines has joined the companies advertising on the Ethiopian Chamber Webpage. With 20 sponsoring companies, the Ethiopian Chamber Webpage will be self-financed and sustainable. We invite not only private companies but also development projects and institutions, NGOs and Networks to join the sponsors. Please contact: mail@gagel.net for sponsoring details.
please contact mail@gagel.net