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	Improving the Business Environment for Small Enterprises: Inter-agency information exchange

Welcome Welcome to the inter-agency database of the Donor Committee's Business Environment Working Group. The database is used to share documents and information about donor-supported work to enhance the business environment to achieve pro-poor growth - with a particular focus on aspects of the Business Environment that discriminate against small firms. The site has had over 240,000 page views since its launch in early 2005 (equivalent to over 2m 'hits'). For the 'sister' database on developing value chains and service markets, please click here.     News The Programme and Papers for the recent Donor Committee conference in Accra are now available; the new draft Donor Guidance is also posted there. Comments on the Guidance can still be posted on the dedicated blog, at donorguidance.blogspot.com. Click on What's New to see what else is new on this site. Of particular interest to the Donor Committee is a recent donor mapping of PSD activities in Bangladesh. For a complete listing of toolkits, click here. Other sites of particular interest include the new WBG BE Snapshots, www.PublicPrivateDialogue.org, www.DoingBusiness.org and the ILO's database on Small enterprise definitions, policies, laws and regulations.   Business Environment Reform: Project Phases The structure of this site is built around the following Phases in the 'Life Cycle' of a typical Business Environment Programme or Project: B.E. Assessment  »  Project Design  »  Implementation  »  Impact Assessment  »  Final Documentation Each of these Phases has its own 'home page', which you can access by clicking on the relevant box, above. Or you can click on Search   'Global' documents and events Documents and events that synthesise experiences across countries.   BE documents of the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development In addition to acting as an inter-agency database for sharing information, this site is also the official repository for the case studies and other material being generated by the Business Environment Working Group of the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development.   Selected links to other Business Environment sites.       The Donor Committee Conference on BE Reform in Africa, Accra, 2007 Click on the link, above, for the Presentations and Papers from the Committee's 2007 Conference in Accra, on the subject of Business Environment reform in Africa. To view the Papers and presentations from the Asia Conference in Bangkok (2006), click here. For the Papers and presentations from the global Conference in Cairo (2005), click here. A Google maps key has been added to the Bangkok Conference page, and is currently being developed for the Accra Conference page.   New to work on Business Environment reform? This link will be used in future to post introductory and background guides.

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