Ethiopian Business
Development Services (BDS) Network
Contact:
info@bds-ethiopia.net
- Tel. 00251-11-662.61.34
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Addis Ababa
BDS - Newsletter
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No. 5 - September 2005
BDS-EXPO !
Hilton Hotel
Wednesday
28/9/2005
9am - 4pm
Exposition on Business Development of the Ethiopian BDS
Network
on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 at the Hilton Hotel !
The Ethiopian BDS Network will organize a "Market Place" exposition on September 28, 2005 from 9am to 4 pm. 15 Partner Organizations will expose their services and achievements in the field of Business Development Services. Exposers are: Addis MSE Development Agency ReMSEDA for industrial zones promotion, Gulele Sub-city for support to self-employment of TVET graduates, Tigray and Amhara ReMSEDAs for regional BDS services, FeMSEDA for the implementation of BDS trainings, NGOs like Propride and Progynist for linkage between financial and non-financial services, Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce and Adama Chamber for chamber services and the new created Ethiopian Business Directory. 300 visitors from donor agencies, NGOs, Partners, Ministries and Development Agencies are expected.
Programme: Opening speech by the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Film on BDS Success stories, Display and Presentation of 15 BDS support organizations in the fields of graduates employment, industrial zones development, chamber development, regional BDS activities in Addis, Tigray, Amhara regions, Networking activities and Organisational Development.
You are invited - just present this BDS Newsletter print-out for entrance.
More business development success stories please find for download on
www.bds-ethiopia.net/
documents.html
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Success
Story of
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Problem: - Construction graduate without job; - No start-up capital; - No working premises.
Support for solution by the
facilitator - Municipality provided land for production; - Linked to Micro Finance and got credit;
- Linked to Selam technical center to
buy - Entrepreneurship training provided;
- Market-link to the municipality for
sales of blocks - Minimising costs by using waste water from hill. |
Impact:
- Owner got self-employed;
- 12 workers employed;
- Income increased, because of low production costs, good quality and marketing support.
BDS facilitator: Shewa Mamash, Lideta Sub-City (Addis ReMSEDA)
How to present a Success Story
On www.bds-ethiopia.net/documents.html you will find a booklet for download with 20 success stories of Business Development Services. Take these examples and work out a success story by yourself and send it to info@bds-ethiopia.net . We will publish your success story with your name on our webpage. Choose a real success of your intervention and describe it with Winword format. Do not exceed one A4 page for the story.
The plan of a success story is the following:
- First insert a significant photo of the business involved.
- Explain the business activity in the photo title.
Then fill the following plan by short bullets:
- Business problems identified
- Support provided by the BDS facilitator or other BDS providers
- Impact (Impact is not what you have done.
Important: Impact is not the activities achieved but the profit of the business start-up or business growth in terms of sales, income, employment, business sustainability and security).
See example of the following short success story:
more on
Action-Research:
Action-Research and Business Development Services
Action-Research is a participatory method to implement development interventions in close contact with the people involved:
1. Assure close contact by regular visits of business advisors (facilitators) to the business owners. For this train facilitators in taking contact with businesses and on how to introduce your concern.
2. Make demand-driven needs assessment: ask business owners on their situation, main problems and proposals of solutions.
3. Write it down in an action-plan together with the business owner and agree self-help action of the owner and additional support of the facilitator and other service providers.
Note: Most of the projects that do not come into concrete support activities have a problem on how to organize regular contact with the people involved and do not listen on the business owner's opinions.
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Can you guess who is demand-driven? Yes, the one at the right side . Why? He has big ears to listen and big eyes to observe and a small mouth to be silent while the left one only has a big mouth and doesn't hear and see anything.. |
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