Annex I: List of web sites

The following list of Web sites is a good source of information on MSE development issues, including access to BDS. It contains the sources used in the preparation of this working paper.

ILO websites on Employment and Enterprise

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/index.htm http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/ent/sed/index.htm http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/empsed.htm http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/ent/index.htm

ENTER Web:

http://www.enterweb.org
This Web site has a series of useful links to other Web sites and is a good starting point for getting information on the MSE sector on the Web.

Donor Committee on Small Enterprise Development:

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/bds/index.htm
Here one can access copies of 'Business Development Services for SMEs: Guideline for donor-funded interventions', and copies of all of the papers relating to the Harare BDS Workshop of 1998, as well as the Rio de Janiero BDS Conference (1999), and the Hanoi BDS Conference (2000).

Micro-enterprise Innovation Project:

http://www.mip.org
Funded by USAID, this site focuses on micro-enterprise development, finance, policy and impact.

Micro-enterprise Best Practice Project:

http://www.mip.org/pubs/pubs-def.htm
Contains several useful SED papers.

ID21

http://www.id21.org or http://www.ids.ac.United Kingdom/id21
Hosted by the Institute of Development Studies, and supported by DFID, is a search engine for development research publications.

The Small Business Administration of the government of the United States:

http://www.sba.gov

Web site on marketing and markets:

http://www.openair.org

Some of the approaches described in this working paper are based on papers prepared for the Harare workshop. The websites of the organizations that presented these papers are:

Enterprise Support Services for Africa:

http://www.ifc.org/abn/essa/essa.htm

Empretec Ghana:

http://www.Webstar.com.gh/Government/NGOs
The overall Programme is described at:
http://www.unicc.org/unctad/en/techcop/invt0103.htm.

FIT:

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/fit/index.htm

Start and Improve Your Business:

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/siyb/index.htm

Manicaland Business Linkages:

http://www.norad.no/eng/country/africa/zi-aid.html

The CEFE Network Project:

http://www.gtz.de/cefe/index.html

There is a variety of relevant websites on Women's Entrepreneurship.

ILO:

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/papers/gender.htm http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/isep/gender/index.htm

National Association for Female Executives (NAFE):

http://www.nafe.com/

National Foundation for Women Business Owners:

http://www.womenconnect.com/Display/ContentHistory.htm?Type=NFWBO

National Women Business Owners Corporation (NWBOC):

http://www.wboc.org/framedoc/mainbody.html

Online Women's Business Centre (created by Small Business Administration):

http://www.onlinewbc.org/docs/links.html
http://www.onlinewbc.org/resourcedatabase.html

Small Business at Women.com:

http://women.com/smallbiz/

UNESCAP WID Section:

http://unescap.org/wid/mt01in.htm
http://unescap.org/wid/mt02ag.htm#PROVISIONAL AGENDA
http://unescap.org/wid/mt03tb.htm

Women and Business:

http://www.enterweb.org/women.htm

Women Connect - Asia:

http://www.women-connect-asia.com/
http://www.women-connect-asia.com/articles.htm
http://www.women-connect-asia.com/articles/gender.htm
http://www.women-connect-asia.com/articles/glass-c.htm

Women's Business Network:

http://www.wbninc.com/content.htm

Women's Work:

http://www.wwork.com/index.shtml

WWWomen Women-Owned Businesses WebRing Home Page!

http://www.wwwomen.com/webring_biz2.shtml