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METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND SELECTING LEAD FIRMS
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Oct 30, 2009 2:06 PM
These documents present the results of the first and second “cycles” of discussions of the FIELD Facilitation working group. The objective of this working group is to share experiences and identify best practices for facilitating value chain development projects – and more specifically how projects can best work with “lead firms” to accomplish their goals. In an effort to structure the work, a series of six “discussion cycles” has been developed that will take place over a one-year time period (see Appendix B for a list of these cycles). Each cycle takes place over a 2-3 month period and consists of preliminary tasks, a working group discussion, and a synthesis of results.
CYCLE 1: DEFINING LEAD FIRMS AND PRINCIPLES OF FACILITATION
CYCLE 2: METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND SELECTING LEAD FIRMS
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State of the Field in Youth Enterprise, Employment and Livelihoods Development
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Sep 25, 2009 12:00 PM
A shift is happening in the field of youth enterprise, employment, and livelihoods development. Practitioners, educators, members of the private sector, government representatives, funders, and youth entrepreneurs are increasingly sharing their lessons learned, promising practices, and innovative ideas for ending the world's youth employment crisis. Members of this global community who develop, implement, monitor, evaluate, and fund programs and policies are placing greater emphasis on the need to ensure that the skills young people are gaining are the ones that will help them get jobs or start successful businesses. This community is also recognizing that it is not acceptable to keep creating new initiatives without thoroughly understanding "what works," and that too many young people still lack access to the financial services and education they need to provide for themselves and their families.
Making Cents International convened 350 leading stakeholders in the youth enterprise, employment, and livelihoods development field from 50 countries to address these issues September 15-16, 2008 for its 2nd Global Youth Enterprise Conference, and for the first-ever Youth-Inclusive Financial Services: Emerging Good Practices Course. This publication is a consolidation and synthesis of the key findings and lessons learned, common challenges, and recommended next steps that participants highlighted related to the following themes:
Market-Driven Approaches•
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Impact Assessments•
Youth-Inclusive Financial Services•
While this publication is not a comprehensive review of these themes, it offers an intriguing look into the state of the field as members of this global community defined the key points and highlighted the programmatic examples found in this piece to show how their work is contributing to the development of the field. This publication builds on the findings from Making Cents' 2007 Global Youth Microenterprise Conference, which it shared through the publication titled, Youth Microenterprise and Livelihoods: State of the Field (www.youthenterpriseconference.org). Readers are encouraged to utilize the 2007 publication in concert with this one when developing youth enterprise, employment, and livelihoods development initiatives. The key findings and lessons learned both publications share are backed up by programmatic examples from members of this global community who, together, are trying to increase and improve economic opportunities for young people around the world. This publication, and the learning events that produced it, are developed through a collaborative process with these same community members who are attempting to build the field of youth enterprise, employment, and livelihoods development.
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Making For The Market: Facilitating User-led Innovation: The Fit Manual
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Feb 26, 2007 11:00 AM
This manual describes the service of facilitating “User-Led Innovation” (ULI) by bringing together entrepreneurs from productive, small-scale enterprises and their customers to develop more marketable and more appropriate products. This manual is for agencies encouraging the development of micro and small enterprises (MSEs), that are interested in promoting self-sustaining business development services (BDS), and that work in collaboration with private-sector business service providers. The manual is presented essentially along business lines, with opportunities for private-sector involvement highlighted.
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Manual for Practitioners: Gender-Oriented Entrepreneurship Promotion -- Strategies and Tools along the Project Cycle
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Feb 26, 2007 11:00 AM
This manual provides orientation, practical examples, and concrete instruments to professionals who implement women entrepreneur development programs. The first part of the manual focuses on strategies and tools along the project cycle regarding the planning, implementation and monitoring of WEP programs. The second part presents concrete worksheets and forms to practitioners who want to use the tools mentioned in Part I for all three stages of the project cycle, planning, implementation or monitoring. The forms and worksheets were designed instead, to be general outlines, which can be adjusted to meet the specific circumstances of a particular project. They are useful tools and can help practitioners develop meaningful and replicable instruments for the management of programs.
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Enterprise Development for Natural Products Manual
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Feb 26, 2007 11:03 AM
This guide provides practical tools to explore and develop natural product enterprises, promotes strategy for natural product enterprise design. Its use is designed for entrepreneurs, community groups, SMEs. It provides a basic overview of sustainable natural product enterprise development with required resources and skills for success.
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Local Economic Development Guide for Crisis-affected Areas
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Jul 11, 2008 7:59 AM
The major objective of the guide is to illustrate why local economic development is particularly effective in post-crisis situations. Each section of the guide begins with advice on different points to consider before introducing practical step-by-step methodologies, enriched by toolkits that contain helpful examples, contacts, questionnaires and other tools for implementing everyday activities at the grassroots level. The guide has been conceived as a tool and handbook for program managers, staff, consultants, and local development partners working on social and economic recovery and development interventions in post-crisis situations. Both the theoretical and practical sections provide tools that may be used as part of fieldwork activities. The guide is intended to be flexible enough so that it can be adapted to local circumstances and used at any point during the post-crisis recovery process and for any type of intervention, in isolation or in conjunction with others.
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