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  • PSD Knowledge Pages
    • Business Environment Reform
    • LED, Cities and Clusters
    • COVID and PSD
      • Socioeconomic Impacts and National Responses
      • Adjusting PSD Interventions in the Short Term
      • Promoting Economic Recovery and Resilience
      • Agency Knowledge Portals, Statements and Funding Activities
    • Market systems and people in poverty
    • Digitalisation and PSD
    • Private Sector Engagement
    • Employment creation
    • Refugees and PSD
    • Fragile and conflict-affected environments
    • Small Enterprise Development
    • Green Growth
    • Value Chain Development
    • Inclusive Business
    • Women’s Economic Empowerment
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    • Where should you start?
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    • Auditing the results measurement system
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DCED Global Seminar, 1-3 October 2024, Nairobi

This event for international donors and experienced development practitioners focused on systemic approaches to achieve inclusive and enduring results from private sector development. Read the synthesis report here. 

DCED 2024 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC

The DCED Annual Meeting for DCED members agencies and potential member agencies took place in Washington, DC, 3-6 June 2024.

Advanced Training Workshop in Results Measurement: Assessing system change

Bangkok, Thailand, 9-13 October 2023

Youth empowerment at the centre of systems change with the Youth Resilience Activity

BEAM Exchange webinar, 17 October 16:00 CEST

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  • Private Sector Development
    • Business Environment Reform
    • Digitalisation and PSD
    • Employment creation
    • Green Growth
    • Inclusive Business
    • Industrial Policy
    • LED, Cities and Clusters
    • Market systems and people in poverty
    • Private Sector Engagement
    • PSD in fragile and conflict-affected environments
    • Refugees and PSD
    • Small Enterprise Development
    • Value chain development
    • Women’s economic empowerment
    • Youth employment
Also in this section
  • Evidence
    • Impact stories
    • Evaluations of agencies’ PSD work
    • Evidence framework
      • Business Environment Reform changes firms’ behaviour
      • Business Environment Reform leads to increased turnover or profits
      • Business Environment Reform leads to new firms being started or registered
      • Changes in firms’ behaviour and rates of investment lead to economic growth
      • Firm creation and registration lead to higher productivity/ revenues
      • Firms changing behaviour leads to higher productivity/ revenues
      • Firms change behaviour then increase productivity/ revenues
      • Firms change behaviour when market failures have been addressed
      • Firms start up when donors address market failures
      • Growth raises income for the poor
      • Higher firm productivity leads to higher profitability
      • Increased firm turnover and/or profits create economic growth
      • Increased productivity/ revenue leads to poverty reduction
      • Increased productivity creates economic growth
      • Increased productivity / revenues lead to increased employment
      • Job creation leads to poverty reduction
      • Link between economic growth and employment
      • Donor support to partner companies changes their behaviour
      • Behavioural changes or increased investment by donor-supported companies leads to new firms being started or registered
      • When new firms are created or registered, more people are employed
Also in this section
  • Introduction to the DCED Standard
    • Introduction to the DCED Standard
    • Guidelines for implementing the Standard
    • Toolkit for implementing the Standard
    • Sample Size Calculator
    • Case Studies and Examples
    • Consultancy support
    • Auditing the results measurement system
Also in this section
  • Vacancies, training courses & events in PSD
Also in this section
  • Introduction to the DCED
  • Annual meetings
  • Working Groups
  • DCED guidance
  • Agency PSD Strategies
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