Business Development Services (BDS) Forum

International Benchmarking on BDS

The following issues are documented:

• Guiding principles of the International Donor Committee
  for enterprise development (members: UNIDO, UNDP, EU, GTZ, KfW, BMZ...)
  guiding-principles-ILO.org-donor-agencies.doc
  UNDP-BDS-Guide.pdf . The International Donor Committee for entreprise development develops the principles of BDS, especially the operational BDS services (marketing advice, bookkeeping, technical advice) and the strategic BDS services (medium and long term marketing strategies, product development, relationship with providers and customers). Strategic BDS means BDS activities on enterprises level (micro level), level of business associations and partner organisations (meso level) and on politics and environment level (macro level).

• Projects and approaches by countries

  • 6-months BDS cycles approach, a very practical approach with immediate results after each of the 6-months cycles.
    bds-workshop-report-yemen-2006.pdf
    bds-pays-differents.doc

  • Business development centers
    enterprises-dev-centre-latin-america-donors.pdf
    bus-centers-indonesia-philippines.pdf

• Approaches by products

  • Clustering. Initating groups of entrepreneurs of the same activity, or the same sector, but also enterprises of different sectors. 
    cluster+networks-unido.pdf  ,  france-cluster.pdf

  • Value chain development: Relationship between enterprises in the production chain, relations between micro, small and medium
    enterprises for more efficient production and marketing
    value-chain-dev-guide-ILO.pdf
    Donor Approaches to Pro-Poor Value Chains.pdf

  • Incubators (business start-ups) incubators.doc
    and Vouchers (financing for trainings)  vouchers3.pdf

  • Export guide export-guide.doc

  • Development of national private sector Internet portals in order to provide the necessary information to the private sector actors and enhance concertation of private sector portails-bds-internet.doc

  • Guides and training modules for entrepreneurs
    Business Information Handbooks - BDS Forum
    Modules de Formation - BDS Forum

• Gender issues Support to Women Entrepreneurs - BDS Forum

• Monitoring and evaluation  m-and-e-system-8-04.doc
  systemes-suivi-evaluation.doc

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