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Privatsektorförderung der Direktion für Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit
Auszug aus dem Jahrbuch Schweiz - Dritte Welt 2001 der IUED, Genf
Entwicklungspolitische Grundsätze, Unternehmensförderung durch Dienstleistungen zur Unternehmensentwicklung und Finanzdienstleistungen.
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Comment la DDC encourage le secteur privé
Extrait de l'Annuaire Suisse - Tiers Monde 2001 de l'IUED, Genève
Politique de développement: Principes, promotion économique par des services de développement d'entreprises et par des services financiers.
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Business Development Services for Small Enterprises:
Guiding Principles for Donor Intervention
15 pages, February 2001
Guiding principles prepared by the Committee of Donor Agencies for Small Enterprise Development of which SDC is a member.
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Poverty alleviation as a business - The market creation approach to development
Study by Urs Heierli, 111 pages, March 2000
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Employment to Fight Poverty
Brochure and meeting documentation by SDC's Industry, Vocational and Urban Development Division
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Gender-oriented Entrepreneurship Promotion:
Strategies and Tools Along the Project Cycle
A Manual in two parts for practitioners
Part I : Guidelines (Strategies and Methods)
Part II : Toolkit (Worksheets, Questionnaires and Tables)
122 pages, January 2003
This manual provides strategies, concrete instruments, and practical examples, to help professionals implement women entrepreneur programs (WEP) successfully.
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CIP-Tool 1: Developing a Country Concept for the Crafts and Industry Promotion
10 pages, September 1997
The CIP Tool provides an overview of successfully tested project appraisal methods. This instrument is used to facilitate the elaboration of CIP country concepts within the framework of the CIP Sector Policy and the respectively adopted country program. The CIP-Cube provides planning guidelines and a framework for the practitioners without dictating the methods to be applied.
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CIP-Tool 1a: Guidelines / Checklist for Preparing Rapid Appraisal at Macro, Meso, Micro Level
6 pages, August 1997
The Division has developed this guideline in order to assist in preparing Terms of Reference, reports for planning or assessment exercises in the sector. It is meant to be a facilitating instrument and not a blue print.
Available only as printed document in English or French (please indicate).
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CIP-Tool 1, Vol II: The Tool Box (Annexes)
74 pages
It provides several appropriate instruments which have been successfully tested.
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CIP-Tool 2: Instruments of Small Enterprise Development
19 pages, April 1998
Overview and description of CIP tools that currently are part of SDC's CIP policy. It presents a brief comparison of these tools (good practices, tools at micro, meso and macro levels) and evaluation criteria.
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CIP-Cube: 'A bridge between theory and practice at SDC'
7 pages, August 1998
The Division has published an updated overview of its ongoing programs. The purpose of this publication is to draw a comparison between the major orientations shaped by the parameters of the CIP-Cube, the sector's program planning tool.
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Bern, 17th may 2006; a one day seminar by the employment and income division of SDC:
Making markets work for the poor: putting the poor at the heart of economic development
Note summarising the content of the day
Introduction
Case study Balkans
Case study Indonesia, Russia
Case study Peru
Case study South Africa
Summary

Issue Paper No. 6:
Analysis of Swisscontact's Experience in the Promotion of Women Entrepreneurs in Micro-, Small- and Medium sized Enterprises
26 pages, annexes, March 2001
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Issue Paper No. 5:
Developing Markets for Business Development Services: Designing and Implementing More Effective Interventions
56 pages, annex, June 2000
For a short overview see executive summary.
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Issue Paper No. 4:
SDC's CIP/SED Program in the Nineties: Review and Challenges ahead
22 pages, December 1999
Peter Künzi, former head of section at SDC, develops quantitative and qualitative characteristics of SDC's Crafts and Industry Promotion Programs in the last decade. He gives an inside view on experiences made and lessons learnt in these programs and then discusses main challenges of the future like market development, performance measurement and the South/East dimension.
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Issue Paper No. 3:
The Business Center Approach to Business Development Services - Assessing the Experience of Swisscontact's Business Centre Approach in Latin America and Asia
Rob Hitchins, Springfield Center for Business in Development
24 pages and annex, September 1999
The Springfield Centre for Business in Development has recently undertaken this study on behalf of SDC and Swisscontact (SC). It analyses the first experiences of SC with this new approach for the promotion of SMEs.
The study presents the key elements of this approach and its evolution, makes a transversal appraisal of five programs, identifies current achievements and lessons learned and looks into challenges ahead for the international SED community – like change of partners and new support mechanisms.
It discusses indicators for performance measurement (financial sustainability, outreach and cost-effectiveness), analyses key elements of success (partners, profile of the Business Centre and the support by SC) and concludes with main lessons learned & challenges ahead.
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Issue Paper No. 2:
Promotion de la petite entreprise en Afrique de l'Ouest
15 pages, September 1998
'Atelier Echanges', which executes SED programs for SDC in West Africa, has authored a comprehensive paper on approach, strategy, and implementation of these programs. This paper gives insight into a demand-oriented enterprise support which aims at entrepreneurs' development through the strengthening of their organizations.
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Issue Paper No 1:
The Gender Approach in Small Enterprise Development
(L'approche 'genre' dans l'appui à la promotion de la petite et moyenne entreprise / El enfoque de género en la promoción de la pequeña empresa / Der 'Gender-Ansatz' in der Handels- und Industrieförderung)
19 pages, 1998/1999
This issue paper elaborates on specific questions related to a "gender-sensitive" SED. It develops the basic concept regarding terms, gender-independent, and gender-specific constraints and comes up with fundamental ideas and steps that have to be taken into account during the life cycle of a development project.
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4 rapports:

• Etude BDS Afrique, Rapport méthologique
• Etude BDS Afrique, Rapport Bénin
• Etude BDS Afrique, Rapport Burkina Faso
• Etude BDS Afrique, Synthèse comparative Bénin, Burkina Faso, Ghana

Working Paper 3:
Framework for Evaluating the Impact of Small Enterprise Initiatives
by Eric Oldsman and Kris Hallberg
32 pages, annexes, July 2002
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Working Paper 2:
Key issues in the design, implementation and monitoring of voucher training programs
by Lara Goldmark, Caren Addis Botelho and Paulo de Anrade Orozco
18 pages, annexes, June 2001
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Working Paper 1:
Developing indicators in small enterprise development projects - A tool for people involved in designing, implementing and evaluating SED projects
by Alan Gibson
26 pages, annexes, May 2001
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Impact Assessment + Performance Measurement in Small Enterprise Development (SED)
News Flash 1, July 2003.
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Impact Assessment + Performance Measurement in Small Enterprise Development (SED)
News Flash 2, March 2005.
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Impact Assessment + Performance Measurement in Small Enterprise Development (SED)
News Flash 3, November 2005.
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SDC Workshop 2007:
Making Value Chains Work for the Poor: Current thinking and future opportunities
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January 2007

SDC Workshop 2006:
Reforming the Business Environment: Current thinking and future opportunities
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January 2006

SDC Workshop 2005:
"Effective Small Enterprises in the Context of Local Economic Development"
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January 2005

SDC Workshop 2004:
"Opportunities and limits of the BDS approach in rural area"
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January 2004

SDC Workshop 2003:
Small Enterprise Development and Empowerment
This year's workshop on "Small Enterprise Development and Empowerment: The entrepreneur and his/her capacity to influence the decisive conditions for the success of his/her enterprise" encountered again the high interest of around 80 participants, coming from various postions in support to small enterprise development such as SDC Headquarters in Bern, various SDC-Coordination Offices, Swiss NGOs and SDC financed programs in various regions, especially in Western Africa. The conceptual input on 'empowerment' by Linda Mayoux was challenged by specific project presentations and discussed more in-depth in working groups and a 'panel' discussion during the second day.
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March 2003

SDC Workshop 2002:
Current Trends In Pro-Poor Small And Micro-Enterprise Development
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February 2002

SDC Workshop 2001:
Aktuelle Instrumente und Strategien der Kleinunternehmensförderung in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
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2001