Ethiopian Business
Development Services (BDS) Network
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No. 15 - July 2006
New contact address:
Afework Yohannes
The BDS Newsletter has a new Writer !
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Good by Gagel |
Welcome Afework |
The BDS Newsletter has been handed over to Mr. Afework Yohannes, management consultant in Addis Ababa. Mr. Afework has been involved in various Private Sector Development related interventions with several donors and Ethiopian BDS related institutions like FeMSEDA, ReMSEDAs, Chambers of Commerce, Enterprise Ethiopia, GTZ, ILO, SNV, Worldbank and others. He is also one of the CEFE entrepreneurship master trainers. We ask all BDS Network members to support him with news and advise for the next editions. |
More details on Afework/BCaD consultancy see
on his consultancy webpage
www.bds-ethiopia.net/bcad. This is the first BDS newsletter edited by
Mr. Afework.
Please !
Give us some
recommendations for the two drafts of business plan templates!
download:
businessplans-
startup-micro-small.doc
375 KB
Have a quick look at the Business Plan Online:
Business Planning for Small Enterprises
A business plan is one of the most essential documents involved when starting, building and managing a successful business and it is an effective tool for raising the necessary capital as well as capturing the interest of investors. The business plan is the document that clearly and concisely defines the goals and objectives of a business, outlining the methods for achieving them. The business plan describes what the business will do, how and where it will be done, and how the business will be financed and managed. In the following please find two simple business plan templates for business start-ups and small businesses.
It is easy to find a complicated Business Plan in the Internet and elsewhere, but it is difficult to develop a Business Plan adapted to micro and small enterprises!
The following drafts of business plan templates for start-ups and small enterprises have recently been developed. Download the detailed templates with instructions and give us your comments on how to improve (download: businessplans-startup-micro-small.doc 375 KB).
Business plan outline for micro and small enterprises:
- Personal data of business owner / partners
- Short business profile
- Production plan (production and sales
overview; machinery and equipment; raw material
requirements; utilities, infrastructure; labour;
administrative and production costs)
- Market study (customers and market
segments; competitors; marketing strategy to win
customers and overcome
competitors; list of suppliers)
- Cost calculation (fixed capital, working capital)
- Financing (own funds, loan required)
- Profit and loss statement (gross sales/profit, operating expenses, net profit after tax)
Have a quick look at the Business Plan Online: busplan-small.htm
Presentation of
interview result
Car mechanics with painting
chamber
Interview with carpenter
BDS workshop in Aden
BDS workshops in Yemen successfully organized
Two BDS workshops in Sana'a and Aden have been organized by the EPSP Business Development Project (Yemen-German Cooperation) in June 2006. Practical exercises with participants from private sector related partner organisations together with small business owners - carpenters, tailors and car-mechanics - on how to carry out a needs assessment and an action plan for BDS support, have shown some main problems of Yemeni SMEs and possibilities for concrete BDS support activities:
- Contact
lawyer for regular services in case of sales on credit problems together
with
Chamber of Commerce.
- Contact taxation expert for regular
services in case of taxation problems together with
Chamber of Commerce.
- Organize meetings and training on
sales on credit and taxation together with professional
associations and Chambers of Commerce.
- Organize meeting to discuss common supply of raw materials.
- Assist tailor and carpenter
associations to get finance for two BDS facilitators for each
association in order to deliver regular and permanent services to
their members and
accumulate experience for self-help.
- Organize technical advise visits to
tailors and carpenters businesses by qualified trainers
(on-the-spot advice).
- Many accidents in carpentry! Collaborate
with Ministry of Labour. Get overview on
common accidents. Organize class-room and on-the-spot training on
workshop security
with carpenters because of many work accidents. Develop security
technologies and
publish manual.
- Business Management: Introduce
standardized customer contracts (e.g. with 30-50%
advance payment), standardized adapted low-level bookkeeping (cash
book, customer
records, bills) and savings accounts.
- Develop and organize short-term group
trainings on bookkeeping, cost calculation, simple
business planning, marketing and taxation.
These may be some of possible BDS support interventions if BDS would be implemented in Yemen in the near future. Have a look on the very detailed BDS workshop report including all training materials: bds-workshop-report-yemen-2006.doc (4,6 MB)
bds-workshop-report-yemen-2006.zip (same report but 3,5 MB zip-file)
Previous BDS Newsletters please visit www.bds-ethiopia.net/news.htm.
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