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This is a useful resource for everyone thinking
about measuring the effectiveness of P2/CP programs. The topic is Business
Development Services, which is an important element of P2 programs:
In general, there is a lot of great analytical and
evaluation work done under "Business Development Services", for those of you
trying to figure out how to work with business especially small business.
The Internatonal Labour Organization (ILO) holds authoritative international
conferences on this, see http://oracle02.ilo.org/dyn/empent/empent.Portal?p_prog=S&p_subprog=BD.
Just what you want to read over Christmas vacation.
--Burton
"The Performance Measurement Framework is sponsored
by the USAID Microenterprise Best Practice Project, implemented by DAI, and
advised by a sub-committee of the Committee of Donor Agencies on Small
Enterprise Development (link). The PMF is an attempt to organize a set of valid,
practical, and useful indicators in order to assess the performance (and
success?) of Business Development Services initiatives with regard to reaching
the goals of outreach, sustainability, cost effectiveness, and impact. In the
long run, it is hoped that the PMF will:
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