Experts of the local enterprises perspective encourage local entrepreneurship in
developing countries.Networks and organizations
BiD Challenge
The Business in Development Challenge (BiD Challenge) stimulates small and medium enterprise development in developing countries through an international Business Plan competition for poverty reduction and profit. It is a Dutch initiative of NCDO and developed in cooperation with Fair Ventures. Anyone of any nationality can join the Challenge, as long as your business plan is for a developing country.The mission of the BiD Challenge is to reduce poverty by stimulating
Small and Medium sized Enterprise (SME) development in developing countries, with the active
support of the private sector and NGOs. Making our contribution to the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) is central to our mission. The BiD Challenge aims to inspire people that poverty
reduction and genuine business can go hand-in-hand.
BiD Network
The Business in Development (BiD) Network is an on-line community for poverty reduction and entrepreneurship in developing countries. The aim of BiD Network is to- boost entrepreneurship in developing countries
- make high potential business plans visible
- link finance and expertise to business opportunities
- engage specialists, professionals and investors.
EnterpriseWorks
EnterpriseWorks is a non-profit organization that fights poverty in the developing world through business development programs that allow small agricultural producers and other entrepreneurs to increase their productivity and incomes, pursue sustainable business opportunities, and create jobs that benefit their families, communities and regions.Publications
David Wheeler
The Sustainable Local Enterprise Networks (SLEN) model describes how sustainable enterprises in developing countries thrive in a trust-based, densely networked environment - a kind of environment that may be increasingly relevant to business in general. Businesses with an overt social mission are frequently an integral part of the networks. The networks have the aim to create not just financial value; the hard assets, but strive as much for the soft assets like human capital, social capital and ecological capital. Also the outcomes fall into hard and soft categories:- profits and reliable returns on investment
- local economies development and trade
- enhanced quality of life including human development and ecological enhancement, and
- individual and community economic self-reliance.
