Working Group
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
- Minutes of the BDS Implementation Working Group, Washington DC, March 2001
- Business Development Services for Small Enterprises: Guiding Principles for Donor Intervention ("The Blue Book"), 2001 Edition
- English,
PDF, 77KB
- French,
PDF, 86KB
- Spanish,
PDF, 67KB
- Russian,
PDF, 247KB
- Indonesian,
PDF, 134KB
- Vietnamese,
PDF, 316KB
- Chinese,
PDF, 627KB
- Donor Committee BDS Conferences, 1998-2000
- Minutes of the BDS Working Group, Paris, January 2000
- Minutes of the BDS Working Group, Rome, September 1999
- Minutes of the BDS Working Group, Geneva, April 1998
- Other documents on BDS Market Development