Workshop

Proceedings of the

SDC SED WORKSHOP 2002: CURRENT TRENDS IN PRO-POOR SMALL AND MICRO-ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT

Date: January 10 - 11, 2002
Location: Conference Centre, Schloss Münchenwiler, Münchenwiler/Murten

We successfully carried out this year's training workshop with about 65 participants and six international key speakers. The evaluation of the workshop's content and organisation resulted in great majority in a high satisfaction.

We thank all participants for their active contribution to the positive outcome of the workshop and hope to see you again at the beginning of January 2003.

Below you will find the complete program and the interventions of the key speakers.

All documents are stored as . (Download reader: Adobe)

Programm/e	[91 KB] final English version
Welcome, Introduction to the program and background of the workshop.	[23 KB]	Hilmar Stetter / Elisabeth Baehr
Basic structures and focus points of different strategies: SME development or poverty alleviation? [2 presentations!]	[71 KB] [59 KB]	Dr. Wolfgang Schneider-Barthold, ifo-Institut, München
Soutenir les entreprises du Sud pour le développement durable. La stratégie 2002 du Ministère français des Affaires Etrangères.	[114 KB]	Michel Botzung, GRET, Consultant du Ministère français des Affaires Etrangères, Paris
What strategy for micro-enterprises? The experience of the Micro Enterprise Unit of USAID.	[84 KB]	Kate McKee, Director Microenterprise Development, US Agency for Intern.Development, Washington
What SME policy for Transition Countries? Recent experience and future challenges.	[194 KB]	Eva Bakonyi, SME Specialist, World Bank SMU Unit, Budapest
The role of a market oriented "SME policy for pro-poor SME development"	[11 KB]	David Stanton, Chief Enterprise Development Advisor, DFID, London
What can we learn from Latin America and their experience? A contribution to the future policy of SDC in Micro-Enterprise promotion.	[42 KB]	Markus Reichmuth, SME consultant, Tulum SA, Caslano
Elements of the thematic concept for Employment & Income towards the elaboration of a mid-term strategy.	[503 KB - zipped]	Isabel Perich & Jean-Christophe Favre, SDC/E+I, Bern
Final workshop report	[184 KB]

A list of participants is available on demand.

If you have specific questions beforehand please contact the workshop organisers at E-Mail address: sed@intercooperation.ch