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Dieter Gagel, Heidelberg, Germany 2008

Start and Improve your Business

The all-in-one business guide available in all German bookshops
and 1,000 Internet bookshops (example:
www.amazon.de)
ISBN  978-3-8370-5916-8
 


 
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Dieter Gagel, Addis Ababa 2005
How to develop sustainable BDS without Radicalism?

Revising the inefficient fundamentalist full commercial BDS approach of the International Donor Committee revise-inefficient-fundamentalist-bds-approach.pdf 2,6 MB

Dieter Gagel, Heidelberg 2006
BDS Nachlese 2006. Hat sich der vom Donor Committee vertretene "full commercial BDS approach" in den letzten Jahren entscheidend verändert?
bds-nachlese.doc  70 KB German language. Ergänzung zum ersten Dokument.


More critical documents of the full-commercial or "minimalist" BDS approach:

Tilman Altenburg / Christian von Drachenfels (2005):
A critical assessment of the "new minimalist approach" to private-sector development. Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). Paper presented at the 11th EADI General Conference Working Group "Industrialization Strategies" Bonn, 21.-24.09.2005. Download from DIE web: (pdf-148 KB )
www.die-gdi.de/....altenburg-drachenfels-eadi-9-05.pdf


Rainer Müller-Glodde / Simone Lehmann,  Kandy/Berlin/Dakar 2006
The Nucleus Approach. Promotion of SME and Organizational Development of Business Associations and Chambers in Developping Countries.
nukleus-approach-06-06.pdf  65 KB

Contents: The "Nucleus" approach initiating small groups of 15-20 business owners who meet regularly, discussing their problems and undertaking activities for problem solution. This self-help activity is moderated and assisted by business advisors.

More about the nucleus approach in English, Portuguese, Spanish,
French and German www.nucleus-international.net.
Mail: info@nucleus-international.net

Ethiopian BDS Network, Addis Ababa 2004
Success Stories on Business Development Services

bds-success-stories10-2004.pdf

MSE Development Project, Addis Ababa 2005
BDS in Industrial Zone Clusters of Addis Ababa
 
bds-in-addis-clusters.ppt (powerpoint)

MSE Development Project, Addis Ababa 2005
Support on Self-Employment of technical School Leavers
 
support of tvet graduates.ppt  48 KB

Toolbox for BDS Implementation

Gagel/Fantahun/Bartels, Addis Ababa 2005
Toolkit for BDS-Facilitation. Demand-driven Business Development Services toolkit-bds-ethiopia-final-7-2005.pdf

Dieter Gagel, Addis Ababa 2004
Introduction to
the demand-driven BDS Approach
demand-driven-bds.ppt (powerpoint)

MSE Development Programme, Addis 2005
Short Profile of a 6-month BDS cycle including Situation analysis and
Action plan overview exercice
bds-approach.doc 280 KB

The Six-Pack for SME Development
go to 6-Pack

  1. The 6-month BDS Cycle Approach.

  2. Internet based BDS and Business Information Portals 

  3. Bottom-up Organizational Development of Partner Organisations

  4. Don't make always the same mistakes in Networking  

  5. Monitoring and Evaluation System for international programmes

  6. Monitoring and Evaluation System for local partner organizations

  • All in One: Product 1-6 in one document

Dieter Gagel, Tunis, 2001
Needs assessment and action planning for BDS in Tunisia
(French language) tun024.doc

Dieter Gagel, Mali 1998
Needs assessment / action planning for BDS
with crafts associations in Mali
(French)
tableau-de-situation.xls
 +   plan-d-actions.xls

Dieter Gagel, Addis 7/03
Selection criteria for business operators to be involved in our
Business Development Services (BDS)
Selection of operators.doc 26 KB

Dieter Gagel, Heidelberg 2006
Impact and Sustainability of ICT based BDS Portals
impact-bds-portal.ppt  607 KB

 

more documents on SME Development: Intranet


 
Value Chain Development and Sector Studies 
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Raphael Kaplinsky and Mike Morris, IDRC 2001
Value Chain Handbook
valuechain-handbook.pdf  510 KB

Raphael Kaplinksy, Jeff Readman, in cooperation with UNIDO, Vienna 2001
Integrating SMEs in Global Value Chains.
Towards Partnership for Development
cluster-unido2.pdf  990 KB

Dr. Wilhelm Elfring/Yohannes Agonafir/Mulugeta Tefera, Addis 4/2005
Value chain identification for intervention (29 value chains)

study-on-29-value-chains-4-05.pdf  830 KB Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, development prospects and expected impacts

Dr. Wilhelm Elfring / Yohannes Agonafir / Mulugeta Tefera, Addis Ababa 7/2005 Final. Strategic Intervention Plan on selected 4 Value Chains 
intervention-plan-2005.doc 844 KB

Dieter Gagel, for SNV-BOAM, Addis Ababa 6/2005

Implementation of a Monitoring and Evaluation System
for Value Chain Development
m+e-report-7-05.pdf  500 KB

Frank Niemann (GFA Group), Addis Ababa 7/2005
Value Chain Analysis in the Food and Construction Sectors

valuechain-7-05.ppt 385 KB

Theo van der Loop,,Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Netherlands,  Addis Ababa, 5/2003 Industrialisation, Value Chains and Linkages. The Leather Footwear Sector in Addis Ababa cluster-ethiopia-leather.doc 495 KB

Zewdie Shibre, Theo van der Loop and Essete Solomon,
Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands, Addis Ababa University, 1/2003
Horizontal and Vertical Linkages in the Textile and Leather
Footwear Sector in Addis Ababa
cluster-ethiopia-leather2.doc 320 KB

Seleshi Lemma, for Ethio-German MSE Development Project, Addis Ababa 7/2001
Subcontracting Strategy for the Ethiopian Micro and small Enterprises

subcontracting.doc  113 KB

Theo van der Loop, Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Netherlands, Addis Ababa, 1/2003 Clothing and Footwear in the African Industrialisation. The case of Ethiopia clothing.doc 336 KB

Theo van der Loop, RDLS, Addis Ababa, June 2003
The Importance of the Leather Footwear Sector for Development in Ethiopia

leather-ethiopia.doc  219 KB

More about Value chain development with practical examples of SIPs
(Strategic Intervention Plans) see Dutch Cooperation on
www.business-ethiopia.com/library.html

 

more documents on Value Chain Development: Intranet


 
Clustering  
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Giovanna Ceglie, Marco Dini, UNIDO, Rio De Janeiro 1999
SME Cluster and Network Development in Developing Countries.
The Experience of UNIDO
cluster-strategies-unido.pdf  136 KB

MSE Development Project, Addis Ababa 2005
BDS in Industrial Zones of Addis Ababa
  bds-in-addis-clusters.ppt (Powerpoint)

More about clustering: www.bds-ethiopia.net/sector-library
 


 
Capacity Building of BDS Providers  
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Wisdom Consult, Addis Ababa 2/2004
Study on needs assessment of private training centers and consultants
study-on-private-training-centers.doc  506 KB

Paul Wolterstorf, Addis Ababa, April 2004
Promotion of Private Training Providers in Ethiopia
promotion-of-private-training-providers.doc  640 KB
 


 
CEFE Entrepreneurship Training  
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CEFE entrepreneurship introduction
see www.bds-ethiopia.net/entrepreneurship.html

Irina Hetsch, Addis 11/2003
CEFE-upgrading of trainers in Ethiopia
report-cefe-training.doc 824 KB
 


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Monitoring and Evaluation see Monitoring and Evaluation

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