"Enterprise Development in Action"
INTRODUCTION
To celebrate its 30th Anniversary at the end of this year, the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) held a photography competition, encouraging entrants to reflect on the last 30 years of enterprise development, and to find new and innovative ways of looking at their work. Entries were welcomed from all geographical regions, and depicting all areas of private sector development – the business environment, the businesses themselves, markets, and above all the people.
A slide show of some of the best entries can been viewed here. The winner annd runners up are displayed below.
Winner - Charles Bodwell
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A large bicycle factory outside Delhi, India, dating from before Independence. A machine operator is spot-welding wheel rims for bicycles. While the flash is spectacular, it also presents a major safety danger. The ILO's Factory Improvement Programme, funded by SECO and USDOL, provided guidance to this factory, as well as many others, on introducing good practices for safety but also for productivity, quality, cleaner production and workplace relations.
Runner Up - Russell Brott
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This photo was taken while on assignment with the SEEP Network in 2005. We were working with CRECER microfinance to improve client retention rates and enhance borrower impact
Runner Up - Martin Edstrom
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This worker stands upon a pile of unprocessed salt, brought up from Lac Rosé, outside of Dakar, Senegal. He's hacking at chunks of sand, separating the good salt from the bad. The salt is grinded, sorted and packed. Some of it, purified at factories of Dakar, end up as table salt in all the corners of the world. Most, however, goes directly from the shores of Lac Rosé to frozen countries of the north – countries in need of salted roads – without passing trough any automated process but the hands of this man.
Runner Up - Sudipto Das
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An artisan paints on earthen vessel which are on sale as a handicraft item in different parts of India and abroad. This art form of Hyderabad in India is known as ‘bidri’ was almost at the brink of extinction but recent initiative from the local level entrepreneurs help them to promote their works as a decorative handicraft items.