Private Sector Development in Post-Conflict Countries: A Review of Current Literature and Practice

The DCED Review of Private Sector Development in Post-Conflict Countries; Current Literature and Practice has now been published, and is available for download here. French and Spanish versions will be avialable shortly.

The Review collates current experience from the Committee's member agencies and others, identifying both areas of general consensus, and key debates. It aims to provide both an accessible entry-point onto the subject of post-conflict PSD, and an exploration of the various controversies and tensions surrounding the theme.

Security & Protection in Fragile States: An advanced course for professionals

The United States Institute of Peace has unveiled its new conflict management education and training program:
Security & Protection in Fragile States: An advanced course for professionals

The course will be held December 1-5, 2008 at the Carnegie Institution for Sciences, Washington , USA.

For more information please visit www.usip.org/etc
To request an application please email education@usip.org
Further questions please contact Nadia Gerspacher at ngerspacher@usip.org

DCED Expert Meeting on Private Sector Development in Post-Conflict Situations

The DCED Expert Meeting was held in Berlin on 4-5th September 2008. The Meeting was hosted by GTZ, and attended by 60 participants from 17 donor agencies as well as representatives from NGOs, academia, the private sector, and the military.


A report of the event can be downloaded here.

DCED 30th Anniversary Photography Competition

To celebrate its 30th Anniversary at the end of this year, the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) is holding a photography competition with a grand prize of $1,000.The competition encourages entrants to reflect on the last 30 years of enterprise development, and to find new and innovative ways of looking at their work.

For more information, and to download an application form, please click here.

BE Donor Guidance Now Available

The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development publication Supporting Business Environment Reforms: Practical Guidance for Development Agencies is now available.

Click on the links below, for the full document in English, and the key messages in French:
Donor Guidance - English.pdf (800 KB)
Messages-cles - Conseils pratiques.doc (109 KB)

XI Inter-American Forum on Microenterprise

The XI Inter-American Forum on Microenterprise "Microenterprise: From the Margin to the Mainstream" will take place in Asuncion, Paraguay, October 8-10, 2008.

For general information about the conference including registration, the agenda, and lodging, please check the Forum's website at http://www.iadb.org/mif/foromic/.

USAID BizCLR Website

USAID have launched a new website focusing on Business Climate Legal & Institutional Reform. To visit the site please click here.

The site aims to be a dynamic knowledge development and knowledge sharing tool to improve the impact of USAID's efforts on Business Climate Legal and Institutional Reform. The site will host information for development practitioners including: country assessments, best practices, publications, and expert opinions. The goal is to share and capture information in this field from around the world and to become an active forum for sharing cutting-edge ideas.

African and Global Lessons for more effective Donor Practices from Women's Perspectives

The documentation of the conference "Enterprise Development – African and Global Lessons for more effective Donor Practices from Women’s Perspectives" (4th November 2007, Accra) is now available online under:

http://www.gtz.de/de/dokumente/gtz-en-enterprise-development-nov-07.pdf

This Conference was organised as a one day pre-event that led into the DCED Conference on African and global lessons for more effective donor practices, Accra, 5-7 November 2007.

Accra Conference Overview Now Available

A 12-page overview of the Papers and presentations at the BEWG Africa Consultative Conference in Accra, November 2007, is now available.

The Summary aims to identify the key points emerging from both presentations and discussions, and draws out some of the recurring themes of the Conference.

Social and Ecological Market Economy: GTZ Reader

GTZ have published a Reader on the subject of Social and Ecological Market Economy - A Model for Asian Development?

At the core of the reader are articles by GTZ practitioners, who provide examples of how elements of the social and ecological market economy are reflected in the portfolio of German development cooperation in the Asian region and also reflect on what needs to be done to develop this further. These articles are complemented by the perspective of German researchers and policy advisors, who reflect on the current reform debate in Germany, and the perspective of Asian partner country representatives, who outline their own understanding of why the German model may be of relevance to sustainable development in their countries – using the model not as a blueprint, but as a starting point for dialogue. An introductory section sets the framework by outlining the different elements of the social and ecological market economy and by reflecting on GTZ’s corporate philosophy in relation to the model.

To download the Reader, click here.