DCED member agencies come together to share experiences and to formulate a common understanding of good practice. This understanding is based on empirical lessons learnt: what has worked, and what has not.
Experiences may be harvested through a series of thematic conferences, featuring a wide range of peer-reviewed Papers, research and other evidence. In other cases, DCED Working Group members work closely with experts to review and document their joint lessons.
This page this page serves as a one-stop portal for all of the DCED’s major guidance products and reviews of lessons learnt, across different themes:
- Guidance: Operational framework and categorisation of PSE strategies for the DCED Private Sector Engagement Working Group, 2018.
- Guidelines: Minimising the risk of negative market distortions in PSE. A practical framework, DCED, 2018
- Review of lessons learnt: How donors can make the transition to strategic private sector engagement: Programming innovations and organisational change, 2017.
- Review of lessons learnt: Demonstrating Additionality in Private Sector Development Initiatives: A practical exploration of good practice, 2014.
- Guidelines: Measuring Results in Challenge Funds: Practical Guidelines for using the DCED Standard, DCED, 2013.
- Read more about the work of the Private Sector Engagement Working Group
- For guidance across the project cycle, visit the beamexchange.org guidance page.
- Read more about the work of the Market Systems Development Working Group.
- Guidance: The DCED Standard for results measurement (v.2017) En español
- Guidelines: Supporting guidelines for implementing the Standard
- Read more about the DCED Standard and other work of the Results Measurement Working Group
- Guidance: Practical Guidance on Supporting Business Environment Reform, 2008, and specific guidance on
- Business Environment Reform and Investment Promotion, 2019.
- Creating Better Business Environments for Micro and Small Enterprises, 2019.
- Policies that Promote SME Participation in Public Procurement, 2018.
- Business Environment Reform and Labour Productivity, 2018.
- Gender and Business Environment Reform, 2016.
- Supporting Local and Regional Business Environment Reforms, 2016.
- Supporting Business Environment Reforms within Industry Sectors, 2016.
- Supporting quality infrastructure in developing and transitional economies, 2014.
- Measuring Business Environment Reform, 2013.
- How BER can be complemented with industrial policy support, 2013.
- How BER can promote formalisation, 2011.
- Read more about the work of the Business Environment Working Group
- Guidance: Synthesis Document on How to Integrate Gender and WEE into PSD Programmes, 2018, and accompanying guide on How to integrate gender & women’s economic empowerment into private sector development: An accompanying guide for policy-makers, 2018.
- Guidance: Gender and Business Environment Reform, 2016.
- Guidelines: Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment in PSD: Guidelines for Practitioners, 2014.
- Read more about the work of the Women’s Economic Empowerment Working Group
- Guidelines: The search for synergy: Business Environment Reform and Green Growth – A practical guide for policy practitioners, DCED, 2017.
- Review of lessons learnt: Gender-Responsive Green Growth Guidance Sheets, DCED, 2019:
- Guidelines: Practical Guidelines for Measuring Results in Fragile and Conflict Affected Environments, v3/2015.
