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This short photo documentation on success stories gives you an idea of our fields of interventions and activities. More success stories please find for download below.

Hollow bloc production:

Problems: Construction graduate without job; no start-up capital; no working premise.

Support by BDS facilitator: Municipality provided land; linked to micro-finance and got credit; linked to Selam technical center to buy hollow-bloc machine; entrepreneurship training provided; market link to the municipality for sales of blocs for public toilets; minimising costs by using waste water from the hill.

Impact: Owner got self-employed; 12 workers employed; income is good because of low production costs, good quality and marketing support.


Facilitator Mercato area

Statistics

Action planning

Car wash cooperative

Car wash cooperative

Bookkeeping

Car wash cooperative:

Problem: 12 unempoyed 12th grade complete students looking for job; no business idea; no start-up capital; no working premises.

Support by BDS facilitator: Support in business idea generation; organising in cooperative; municipality provided premises and cleaned space; linked to micro-finance and got credit; bought some equipment and built premises; opended car wash and shop for oil etc; record keeping provided.

Impact: 12 cooperative members employed with stabilised income


Mini-supermarket

Owner with facilitator

Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping

Mini-supermarket:

Problem: Lack of working premises; shortage of working capital; limited market access; no premises.

Support by BDS facilitator: Municipality provided space for shop; linked to micro-finance and got credit; shop constructed by the owner; entrepreneurship training and bookkeeping provided; linked to public events for sales.

Impact: Owner got self-employed; 2 workers employed; income is good because of strategic shop location.


Carpenter workshop in Ambo


5-operating-machine


poor tools


Woodworking

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Auto-mechanics Ambo

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Metal works Ambo

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This is a local made 
welding machine

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Tailoring workshop Ambo

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Shop with textile stocks

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Project planning workshop

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Procedure to produce metal chairs with a simple bending machine

 

BDS Success Stories for download:

Ethiopian BDS Network, Addis Ababa 2004
20 Success Stories on Business Development Services
bds-success-stories10-2004.pdf

 

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