The knowledge brief presents lessons from a World Bank program in Tanzania in establishing a new Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Center (AEC) that provides local companies with access to financial market connections, as well as technical assistance in areas such as production, financial management, and marketing.
This report presents lessons learned from various models that public and private sector programs use to stimulate the growth of agro-processing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) through linkages to larger firms in developing countries.
This guide provides evidence-based operational principles for teams working on women’s entrepreneurship, including resources to build the business case for supporting women-owned businesses and start-ups; to develop a framework for support programs for women-owned businesses, and to share insights from case studies and results.
This report presents a desk review of the financing gap, constraints and policies related to the MSME financing in Bangladesh. It aims to provide relevant policy recommendations thereby presenting an opportunity to address these financing challenges.
GCYE has developed a framework for qualifying young entrepreneurs and a digital platform for demonstrating entrepreneurial capability. This framework and platform are ecosystem-based, enabling youth to showcase their potential to those whose know-how, access, and resources they need to build their ventures and advance their careers.
This paper systematically reviews and summarizes 40 rigorous evaluations of SME support services in low and middle-income countries and presents evidence to help inform policy debates.
Mentoring is often an essential part of the support package that organizations provide to entrepreneurs and is a vital ingredient in their success. This report explores young people's business start-ups and development and identifies successes and failures and innovative approaches used in mentoring young entrepreneurs.
This brief aims to serve as basic guidance on developing and designing a social entrepreneurship program to combat youth employment challenges.
This brief discusses ways in which youth employment programs can apply the social enterprise approach in their operations. It outlines where social enterprises fit in the landscape of youth employment, characteristics that make the model suitable, the types of social enterprises that can function as youth employment programs, and an example of the social enterprise approach in action from Digital Divide Data’s (DDD) impact sourcing work in Cambodia, Laos, and Kenya.
This guide aims to provide general guidance to project managers and project teams on the design and implementation of integrated, cross-sectoral youth employment programs. Governments and development institutions too often implement activities and programs that target either the supply side or the demand side of the labor market without coordination or an explicit intent to create linkages that will maximize the impact of their interventions and improve job opportunities for youth.
