Business Development Services

This Working Group is not currently active; please contact the Coordinator for more information.

The BDS Working Group organised five Conferences between 1998 and 2000, leading to the publication of Guiding Principles in 2001; those Guiding Principles are now available in seven languages. Most recently, the Committee decided at its Annual Meeting in 2004 not to further revise the document.

Documents

Minutes of the BDS Implementation Working Group, Antwerp, April 2002
- Word, 33KB
- PDF, 24KB
Minutes of the BDS Implementation Working Group, Washington DC, March 2001
- Word, 41KB
- PDF, 34KB
Business Development Services for Small Enterprises: Guiding Principles for Donor Intervention ("The Blue Book"), 2001 Edition
Donor Committee BDS Conferences, 1998-2000
- The list of papers is available on the conference pages.
Minutes of the BDS Working Group, Paris, January 2000
- Word, 80KB
- PDF, 61KB
Minutes of the BDS Working Group, Rome, September 1999
- Word, 79KB
- PDF, 57KB
Minutes of the BDS Working Group, Geneva, April 1998
- Word, 140KB
- PDF, 68KB
Other documents on BDS Market Development
- www.bdsknowledge.org