Toolkit on how to Start and Improve your Business

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The following external links are only functionning when you are online.

Business Development Services (BDS) Forum
www.bds-forum.net is a new website edited by Dieter Gagel, freelance consultant, promoting a moderate BDS approach including commercial BDS providers as well as NGOs, self-help-organizations and public providers. The website gives a lot of examples of BDS interventions in industrial clusters, with business start-ups, with Chambers of Commerce, sector-specific BDS interventions and BDS in value chain development. Handbooks on marketing, start your business, import-export, trade fairs, business planning, bookkeeping and cost calculation and capacity building of business associations are available for download. Links to Ghanaian, Tunisian, Ethiopian, Malian, Guinean BDS portals.

Creation of Enterprises through Formation of Entrepreneurs (CEFE)
www.cefe.net  Business creation trainings and learning modules

European Union (EU) Trade Promotion Web Site
http://export-help-cec.eu.int

Ethiopian Business Development Services Network (EBDSN)
www.bds-ethiopia.net

Website of the Committee of Donor Agencies for Small Enterprises www.ilo.org/employment/sedonors
Case studies and other documents from BDS conferences in Harare, Rio de Janeiro, and Hanoi

Gateway Africa
www.gatewayafrica.com 
Private E-business website is dedicated to the promotion of international trade with Africa. Import-Export transaction facilities, trade services, business directory, country profiles...