- Measuring and Reporting Results - The DCED Standard
The DCED Standard therefore provides a practical framework, whereby
programmes can measure their own results according to good practice.
- Women's Entrepreneurship Development
This page lists reports and publications related to
Women’s Entrepreneurship Development. The documents and links have been
divided into six themes:
a. Overviews, Tools and Guidance
b. Useful websites
c. Country Studies
d. WED and the Business Environment;
e. WED and Business Development Services
f. WED and other Value Chain programmes.
- About the DCED
The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) is the forum where
donors, foundations and UN agencies share their practical experience of
private sector development, and identify both good practice and
promising new innovations.
- International Seminar, Thailand, 17-20 Jan. 2012
This Seminar provides the opportunity for experienced practitioners to
update themselves on current trends in the fast-moving field of Private
Sector Development. In particular, it will focus on what we are learning
about results.
- Success stories
This page offers a collection of success stories reporting the value and
benefits of Private Sector Development for wider development goals.
- The Rationale for Private Sector Development
By providing the poor with the capacity to find jobs and improve their
incomes, PSD lays the foundation for their exit from charity. In
addition, a growing private sector will ultimately enable governments in
developing countries to generate the tax revenues needed to emulate
government provision in more wealthy countries - of health care,
education etc. This page offers an overview of key information, data and
arguments that underpin this rationale.
- How Private Sector Development leads to Pro-Poor Impacts: A Framework for Evidence
This framework for evidence represents a structured approach to organise
the available research on results in PSD. It is designed as a results
chain which illustrates how PSD practitioners typically expect their
work to lead to pro-poor impacts.
- Private Sector Development - Knowledge Portal
On this page, you will find information about all aspects of Private
Sector Development, including links to recommended additional resources,
managed by the DCED or other agencies.
- Book Review: Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
This is a review of a collection of essays from various scholars that
takes stock of the body of knowledge on the role of entrepreneurship in
economic development.
- DCED Standard Consultants Marketplace