This paper synthesizes the learning framework that evolved out of the PLP in Strategic Alliances for Financial Services and Market Linkages in Rural Areas launch workshop. This conceptual note…
World Education’s Ntinga LINK project was launched in January, 2003 after several months of market research and consultations with a donor and other stakeholders. The broad goal of the p…
Since 1996, local NGO AT Uganda (affiliated with U.S. PVO EnterpriseWorks Worldwide) has implemented an initiative to increase smallholder participation in commercial agricultural markets by p…
The AFE-Mali project to promote business services to producers of shea butter in Mali began in late 2002 and will conclude in 2005. An assessment of the subsector showed that shea producers la…
From September 6 to October 6, 2004, the SEEP Network’s Business Development Services (BDS) working group hosted an online discussion entitled “BDS in Conflict Environments –…
In 2005, the SEEP Network Business Development Services Working Group held an on-line discussion on how we define “Enterprise Development” This synthesis represents one conversatio…
This case study analyzes the progression of the treadle pump program and the varying strategies that IDEI adopted for each phase of the product’s life cycle. The case also tracks the cha…
Low-income women in developing countries rely heavily on commercial, small-scale farm- and home-based microenterprises for their family livelihood. The field of business development services (…
