Justifying a PSD Project - Resources

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Justifying a Domestic PSD Project

Some topic-specific resources

Informality: The Global Development Research Centre provides an excellent overview of concepts and resources relating to the informal sector at http://www.gdrc.org/informal/index.html

The enabling environment: the Committee of Donor Agencies for Small Enterprise Development has a number of resources and links to information on donor activity, at http://www.sedonors.org/groups/group.asp?groupid=2

Business development services (BDS) and capacity-building: An excellent summary source is the BDS Knowledge site maintained by the ILO, at http://www.bdsknowledge.org/dyn/bds/bdssearch.home?

Linkages and value chains: the Committee of Donor Agencies for Small Enterprise Development has some useful links at http://www.sedonors.org/groups/group.asp?groupid=4

Microfinance:

UNCDF has learning resources and links at http://www.uncdf.org/english/learning/index.php

CGAP has a wealth of information, and links to several other microfinance sites, at http://www.cgap.org/

Infrastructure:

The Public-Private Infrastructure Facility (a multidonor technical assistance facility aimed at helping developing countries improve the quality of their infrastructure through private sector involvement) has several toolkits at http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/ppiaf/activity.nsf/toolkits

UNDP’s PPPUE programme has a toolkit for municipal managers at http://pppue.undp.org/toolkit/

Privatization and regulation: The World Bank provides a number of toolkits on privatization at http://rru.worldbank.org/Toolkits/