Promoting Private Sector Development

Recent DCED Events

• The DCED recently organised a global Seminar on trends and results in private sector development, with about 100 participants from 32 countries, representing 54 different organisations, field programmes and governments. Speakers presented the practical experience of major PSD programmes in Asia, Africa, Latin America. All presentations are available on the Seminar web-page. For reports from the Seminar by SDC's e+i network, click here.

Other DCED News

• The Secretariat welcomes Susan Joekes as Deputy Coordinator; she previously worked with the International Development Research Centre in Cairo, where she was a member of the Supporting Inclusive Growth program. Read more
• The DCED Inter-Agency Database on Value-Chains has been reformatted to make it easier to use. Contributions welcome.

Latest Entries on the Site

• The UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group investigates how to integrate smallholders into agricultural supply chains
• Two new vacancies at ILO have been posted on our jobs page.
• A new addition on Measuring and Reporting Results: A Guide to Making Results Chains
• The Politecnico di Milano University and the Project Management Institute  are researching how NGOs manage development projects in practice. The results will be shared with all participants. Click here for the questionnaire (to be submitted by 3 March).
• New knowledge posts on the PSD portal for RM: Applying impact evaluation to trade assistance and A cross-country evaluation of USAID trade capacity building
• Latest Research and Evidence on PSD, January 2012
• The 10 most popular pages of Enterprise-Development.org in 2011  

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