Boosting Employment through Small Enterprise Development (EMP/SEED): Conducive environment for Sustainable Enterprise

November 2009 

• Supporting Entrepreneurship Education: A report on the global outreach of the ILO’s Know About Business Programme - [pdf 4159 KB]
  12 November 2009 (Report)

June 2009 

• Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and the Global Economic Crisis: Impacts and Policy Responses - [pdf 3495 KB]
  10 June 2009 (Brochure)

February 2009 

• 9-11 February 2009, Johannesburg
  African Employers Forum: Building partnerships for Sustainable Enterprise Development in Africa (ILO/IOE) (Symposium)

December 2008 

• The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development
  30 December 2008 (Web page)

October 2008 

• Strategy report on Law-Growth Nexus - [pdf 453 KB]
  01 October 2008 (Project documentation)

July 2008 

• The Law-Growth Nexus: A Mapping of Labour Law and Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) Development
  October 2007 - January 2008 - The overall objective of this project is to promote better business environments for workers and employers in MSEs. This will be achieved through realising the intermediate objective of developing good practice guidelines for labour and labour related laws for MSEs. (Project)

December 2007 

• Labour and Labour-Related Laws in Micro and Small Enterprises: Innovative Regulatory Approaches - [pdf 727 KB]
  01 December 2007 - SEED Working Paper No. 81 (Working paper)

January 2007 

• Assessing the Enabling Environment for Women in Growth Enterprises: An AfDB/ILO Integrated Framework Assessment Guide - [pdf 354 KB]
  01 January 2007 - This guide to assess the environment for Growth-Oriented Women Entrepreneurs (GOWEs) has been prepared jointly by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) for the purpose of identifying critical forms of support that can enable women to grow and expand their enterprises, and in the process to create jobs and income for themselves and others. ... (Book)

May 2006 

• Stimulating youth entrepreneurship : barriers and incentives to enterprise start-ups by young people - [pdf 750 KB]
  01 May 2006 - SEED Working Paper No. 76 (Working paper)

March 2006 

• Managing Small Business Associations, Trainer’s Manual - [pdf 889 KB]
  01 March 2006 (Instructional material)

January 2006 

• Poverty reduction through small enterprises: Emerging consensus, unresolved issues and ILO activities - [pdf 314 KB]
  01 January 2006 - SEED Working Paper No. 75 (Working paper)
• Towards an entrepreneurial culture for the twenty-first century : stimulating entrepreneurial spirit through entrepreneurship education in secondary schools - [pdf 6156 KB]
  01 January 2006 - This book is intendent for all those interested in youth developent as the first step in a long-ter strategy for inforation exchange oninnovatory odels of education delivery at secondary level. (Book)

October 2005 

• Growing out of poverty : how employment promotion improves the lives of the urban poor - [pdf 691 KB]
  01 October 2005 - SEED Working Paper No. 74 (Working paper)

January 2005 

• Assessing the influence of the business environment on small enterprise employment – An assessment guide - SEED Working Paper No. 71E - [pdf 583 KB]
  01 January 2005 - Provides guidance on assessing the effect of external influences on employment in small enterprises. Covers three topics of assessment: profiling small enterprises and small enterprise employment; assessing the policy, legal and regulatory framework for small enterprise development; and assessing markets and the business environment for small enterprises. (Instructional material)
• The other India at work : job quality in micro and small enterprise clusters
  01 January 2005 (Book)
• Women entrepreneurs in Pakistan : how to improve their bargaining power - [pdf 707 KB]
  01 January 2005 (Book)
• Being "Real" about Youth Entrepreneurship in Eastern and Southern Africa: Implications for Adults, Institutions and Sector Structures, Series on Youth and Entrepreneurship - [pdf 858 KB]
  01 January 2005 - SEED Working Paper No. 72 (Working paper)

July 2004 

• Impact of National Policy and Legal Environments on Employment Growth and Investment in Micro and Small Enterprises - [pdf 478 KB]
  07 July 2004 - SEED Working Paper No. 63 (Working paper)

January 2004 

• Productivity, decent employment and poverty : conceptual and practical issues related to small enterprises - [pdf 394 KB]
  02 January 2004 - SEED Working Paper No. 67 (Working paper)
• Facilitating youth entrepreneurship. An analysis of awareness and promotion programmes in formal and non-formal education - [pdf 674 KB]
  01 January 2004 - SEED Working Paper No. 59 Part II (Working paper)