Assisting organisations adapt to changing demands, GBD has been involved in facilitating workshops and training clients, and their staff, on economic development approaches.
GBD has developed tools to help clients apply internationally recognised best practises as they relate to:
Making Markets Work for the Poor
BDS Market Development
Business Incubation & Clustering
Business Linkage Facilitation
Monitoring & Evaluation
EXAMPLE
Business Development Services Programme Design, Strategic Planning and Training Savings and Micro Credit Programme (Government of Eritrea & The World Bank) Eritrea
Development of a business development services (BDS) programme for the Eritrean Government in partnership with the World Bank.
Led a national team of researchers to assess the constraints felt by small and medium sized businesses.
Designed an intervention for a national three year pilot project.
Developed strategic plan, operations and training manuals for programme implementation.
Trained staff on BDS market development approaches relevant to programme implementation
